Saroja saddle
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 Border table and boundary stone at the Sarojasattel |
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| Pass height | 1626 m above sea level A. | ||
| state | Vorarlberg , Austria | ||
| Valley locations | Frastanz , Austria | Planken ( Schaan ), Liechtenstein | |
| expansion | Hiking trail | ||
| Mountains | Rätikon | ||
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 10 '58 " N , 9 ° 34' 25" E | ||
The Sarojasattel (also: Saruijersattel ) is a mountain pass (pass height 1626 m above sea level ) in the Alps ( Eastern Alps , Northern Limestone Alps ). It is located in Austria (state of Vorarlberg ) and connects the Saminatal ( Samina ) in Frastanz with the municipality of Planken in Liechtenstein ( Alp Gafadura ) and the Alpine Rhine Valley .
Location and special features
The Sarjoasattel is located between the three sisters ( 2053 m above sea level ) to the south, about 800 meters as the crow flies, and the mountain peaks to the north: Sattelköpfle ( 1688 m above sea level ), about 300 meters away, and the about 850 meters distant Sarojahöhe (also only Saroja , 1658 m above sea level. A. ) It is a pass crossing with old, but purely local significance. The pass path is correspondingly simple, and to this day only a natural path leads to and over it. The Three Sisters, the Sattelköpfle and the Sarojahöhe form part of the border between Liechtenstein and Austria .
In the battle of Feldkirch (1799) as part of the Second Coalition War between French and Austrian troops, the Sarojasattel briefly had strategic importance.
During the Second World War, escape routes from Austria to Liechtenstein and on to Switzerland ran via the Sarojasattel, Mattlerjoch and Bettlerjoch for those persecuted by the National Socialist dictatorship .
Waters
A stream rises to the west below the Sarojasattel, on the Liechtenstein side, and drains into the Grosslochbach.
hike
The closest hiking bases are the Feldkircherhütte ( 1204 m above sea level ) and the Gafadurahütte ( 1428 m above sea level ) and the Sarojasattel is easily accessible on foot. The Sarojapass is about 550 meters as the crow flies from the northeastern Sarojaalpe (also: Hinterälpele ) and about 450 meters from the southwestern Alp Gafadura .
Part of the Via Alpina long-distance hiking trail (R56) leads over the Sarojasattel .
The entire area around the Sarojasattel requires surefootedness, a head for heights and alpine equipment with good mountain boots.
Unrealized aerial cableway
In July 1969, the Liechtensteiner Unterland Tourist Office was considering a three-sister cable car . The Drei Schwestern Luftseilbahn AG was founded on October 23, 1971 . The top station of the Drei Schwestern cable car was to be built on a plateau near the Sarojasattel . The valley station was planned on the road in the Schaanwald opposite the junction to Mauren . In March 1972, a building right and lease agreement for the use of the alpine area for this cable car was concluded with the Agricultural Association of the Alpgenossenschaft Frastanz. The Liechtenstein government granted Dreischwestern Luftseilbahn AG a business license on January 30, 1973, and the latter received a license from the Swiss energy industry departments.
Subsequently, a development of the Hinterälpel with a ski lift (transport capacity 1000 people / hour) and a practice lift was planned. The three-sister cable car was to be designed as a shuttle cable car with two cabins for 80 people each (transport capacity 700 people / hour). A mountain restaurant with a viewing terrace (400 seats) and a rotating interior (200 seats) was also planned for the mountain station.
It was calculated with a frequency of around 170,000 people annually (110,000 in summer, 60,000 in winter), the construction costs were initially calculated at 7.3 million Swiss francs, later construction costs of 15 million Swiss francs were also rumored.
Concerns have been raised against these plans in Liechtenstein (especially by the Liechtenstein Society for Environmental Protection, LGU, founded on February 8, 1973). In Vorarlberg, too, these expansion plans did not find many supporters. The construction was postponed further and further (originally the opening was planned in December 1972).
Due to the concerns in Vorarlberg, especially in the market town of Frastanz, the Vorarlberg state government designated an area of 498.4 hectares as a protected part of the landscape on June 30, 1976 , in which the construction of cable cars, drag lifts and other ascent aids was expressly prohibited .
literature
- Hannes Mannhart: The forgotten traces of a battle on Saroja , Mels 2012, in: Terra Plana, 3, 2012, pp. 12–16.
- Hannes Mannhart: French Wars 1799: Military installations on Saroja and effects on Planken , Vaduz 2005, in: Yearbook of the Historical Association for the Principality of Liechtenstein, Vol. 104 (2005), pp. 223–243.
- Erich Hillbrand: The battles near Feldkirch 1799 and the battle for Vorarlberg until 1801 , Vienna 1985, Bundesverlag, ISBN 978-3-215-05540-9 , p. 16.
Web links
- Oliver Stahl: Saroja. In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein .
Individual evidence
- ^ Battle of Frastanz , website of the municipality of Frastanz.
- ↑ Culture hike : March 16 , 366 historical occasions to hike culture with your head or with your legs. Here the March 16, 1938. Website of the Friends of Nature Austria / Vorarlberg.
- ↑ Initiative committee for the Drei Schwestern Luftseilbahn AG (1971): Drei Schwestern Luftseilbahn, Terra plana, issue 3, pp. 4-8.
- ↑ The failed project of the Three Sisters aerial cableway , website: mariobroggi.li.