Scolding pass

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Scolding pass
Pass height

Pass height

Compass direction west east
Pass height 1051  m above sea level M.
Canton law Solothurn
Valley locations Delémont Balsthal
expansion Pass road
Built 1914/15
Mountains law
profile
Ø pitch 3.6% (616 m / 17 km) 2.8% (562 m / 20 km)
Max. Incline 15%
Map (Solothurn)
Schelten Pass (Canton of Solothurn)
Scolding pass
Coordinates 610 828  /  242778 coordinates: 47 ° 20 '9 "  N , 7 ° 34' 55"  O ; CH1903:  610828  /  242778
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The Schelten , called La Scheulte by the Jurassians , is a 15-kilometer mountain pass between the Swiss canton of Jura and the canton of Solothurn , with a passage on Bernese territory that connects Mervelier with Ramiswil .

location

The pass is at an altitude of 1051  m above sea level. M .; the road has a gradient of 12%. On the west side of the pass in the Bernese community of Schelten is the St. Antonius chapel , on the east side the road leads through the elongated Guldental to Ramiswil.

Numerous hikes can be undertaken from the top of the Scheltenpass, for example on the Hohe Winde , the Passwang or in the direction of Delémont .

Scheltenpass blocking point

Scheltenstrasse 1914–1918

During the First World War, for strategic military reasons, the pass was created for vehicle traffic or expanded as a road - a memorial plaque stands a few meters below the top of the pass on the Solothurn side. It is a strategically important transition from the Mittelland to the Delsberg Basin and further into the Jura .

The Schelten Pass was also an important link during World War II . The Renfer construction department of the Swiss Army built numerous bunkers and anti-tank barriers on the west side of the pass between 1940 and 1942 .

The Scheltenpass blocking point is a military-historical monument of national importance.

Many objects are still visible in the forest today:

  • Infantry bunker A 3655 ⊙
  • Infantry bunker A 3656 ⊙
  • Infantry bunker A 3657 ⊙
  • Infantry bunker A 3658 ⊙
  • Infantry bunker A 3659 ⊙
  • Infantry bunker A 3660 ⊙
  • Infantry bunker A 3661 ⊙
  • Infantry bunker A 3662 ⊙
  • Infantry plant Pak A 3668 Mümliswil Süd ⊙
  • KP Lobisei Border Brigade 4 A 3669 ⊙
  • Infantry bunker two 8.4 cm cannons A 3670 St. Wolfgang ⊙
  • Infantry bunker 8.4 cm cannon, Mervelier JU ⊙

  • Guldental

  • Road to Matzendörfer Stierenberg

  • Andreas Chapel

Cycling

As part of the Tour de Suisse , the Scheltenpass, which is classified as a 1st category mountain, was climbed a total of two times. In the 6th stage ( Bern - Olten , 240.1 km) in 1935 , the Frenchman Benoît Faure won the mountain classification on Schelten. In the 2012 Tour de Suisse , the 188.8-kilometer stage from Aarberg to Trimbach led over the Schelten. The Dane Brian Vandborg won the mountain prize on the pass .

Web links

Commons : Scheltenpass  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scheltenpass info
  2. ↑ Fortress Oberland: Schelten Pass SO lock point
  3. ^ Silvio Keller, Maurice Lovisa, Thomas Bitterli: Military monuments in the cantons of Solothurn, Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft . Inventory of the combat and command structures. VBS Bern 2001
  4. ↑ Statistics document Tour de Suisse 2019 (PDF), pp. 60, 103, 195, accessed on November 8, 2019