Schoberpass

Schoberpass
Compass direction	west	east
Pass height	849  m above sea level A.
state	Styria
Watershed	Palten , Enns	Liesing , Mur
expansion	B113 / A9 / railway line
Mountains	Lower Tauern / Eisenerzer Alps
Map (Styria)
Coordinates	47 ° 27'5 "  N , 14 ° 40'19"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 27'5 "  N , 14 ° 40'19"  E

The Schoberpass in Styria is 849  m above sea level. A. high valley pass that separates the Niedere Tauern from the Eisenerzer Alps . It forms the watershed between Palten ( Enns ) and Liesing ( Mur ), whose common valley furrow culminates today in the Schober Pass. As a typical valley watershed, the transition in the terrain is hardly apparent.

The pass has been an important traffic route since time immemorial, and is - besides the route along the Danube via Vienna and Budapest - the most important connection from north-west Europe via the Balkans to south-east Europe . It also represents the most important inner-Austrian connection between western and southern Austria . In the second half of the 20th century, the pass marked the infamous guest worker route . Today the Rudolfsbahn and the Pyhrn Autobahn  (A9) run here . After the Brenner Pass, the Schober Pass is the most important Alpine pass in freight transport with 1.4 million trucks per year. In Alpine transit , however, in recent years since the Balkan Wars , the pass has lost its significance compared to the routes that bypass the Alps completely in the northeast.

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  Catchment area of ​​the Schober Pass, with source, destination and transit states (the guest worker route of the 1970s, without the former Eastern Bloc)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Austria: Alpine state with the most truck traffic. In: traffic RUNDSCHAU. February 22, 2010, accessed April 19, 2010 .