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Wooded Loppergrat, Renggpass, Pilatus

Wooded Loppergrat, Renggpass, Pilatus

Compass direction North south
Pass height 886  m above sea level M.
region Nidwalden , Switzerland canton Obwalden , Switzerland canton
Valley locations Hergiswil Alpnachstad
expansion Mule track
Mountains Pilate
Map (Nidwalden)
Renggpass (Canton of Nidwalden)
Bottleneck
Coordinates 664.96 thousand  /  203 184 coordinates: 46 ° 58 '36 "  N , 8 ° 17' 33"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and sixty-four thousand nine hundred sixty  /  203 184

The Renggpass is a mule pass on the border of the Swiss cantons of Nidwalden and Obwalden .

The pass over the Rengg connects Hergiswil with Alpnachstad . It lies between the Pilatus and its eastern foothills Lopper at 885  m above sea level. M. , 452 meters above Lake Lucerne or Lake Alpnach . The Renggpass is classified in the inventory of historical traffic routes in Switzerland as of national importance.

The pass was already used by the Romans . Before the construction of the road along the Lopper, which was inaugurated in 1861, the busy mule track was the only land connection from Lucerne and Nidwalden to Obwalden and the Brünig Pass . But only with the construction of the Brünig Railway did it lose its importance as a traffic route.

View from the pass to the Alpnachersee by Anton Winterlin and Sigismond Himely (around the middle of the 19th century)

The Renggpass had strategic importance and was in the Middle Ages with a 250 meter long Letzi- and parapet wall mounted. The French invasion troops moved over the pass under General Schauenburg in 1798 to break the Nidwalden resistance . In stecklikrieg a battle of the insurgent Nidwaldner against the government troops took place there in August 1802 Helvetic central government instead.

To circumvent the Lopperstrasse to prevent over the footpath of Renggpasses was during the Second World War the dam site Renggpass furnished.

literature

Web links

Commons : Renggpass (Nid- / Obwalden)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rengg or Rängg is a field name for a gorge with a path
  2. ^ Obwalden cultural landscape: On the emergence of the Obwalden main traffic axes in the 19th and early 20th centuries .
  3. ^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 4: Plessur - Switzerland . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1906, p. 114, keyword Renggpass   ( scan of the lexicon page ).
  4. ↑ Neue Nidwaldner Zeitung Online from April 5, 2015: The Lucerne soldiers' rock cat is being refreshed .
  5. ↑ Jürg Stüssi-Lauterburg : Stecklikrieg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  6. ↑ Fortress Oberland: Renggpass barrier