Sella Pass

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Sella Pass - Passo Sella - Jëuf / Jouf de Sela
The Sella Pass in the middle of the picture between the Sella Group (left) and the Langkofel Group (right)

The Sella Pass in the middle of the picture between the Sella Group (left) and the Langkofel Group (right)

Compass direction North south
Pass height 2218  m slm
ItalyItaly Ital. province South-TirolSouth-Tirol South-Tirol TrentinoTrentino Trentino
Watershed Grödner Bach → Eisack → Etsch Avisio → Etsch
Valley locations Selva Canazei
expansion Strada Statale 242 Italia.svg Strada Statale 242
Built 1872
Mountains Between the Sassolungo Group (west) & Sella Group (east) of the Dolomites
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Sellajoch (Sella group)
Sella Pass
Coordinates 46 ° 30 '24 "  N , 11 ° 45' 26"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 30 '24 "  N , 11 ° 45' 26"  E
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The Sellajoch ( Italian Passo Sella , Ladin Jëuf de Sela or Jouf de Sela ) is a 2218  m slm high Italian Alps pass in the dolomites .

Position and height

Sign at the highest point of the road over the Sella Pass when entering Trentino.

The Sella Pass connects Val Gardena near Selva ( South Tyrol ) with the Fassa Valley near Canazei ( Trentino ) in a north-south direction . The yoke runs between the Sella group in the east and the Langkofel group in the west.

Various information is circulating about the height of the Sella Pass. The lowest point of the watershed between Val Gardena and the Fassa Valley is usually estimated at 2213, 2214 or 2218  m . The frequently published data 2240 and 2244  m relate to the apex of the pass road a little to the east.

history

Archaeological finds (arrowheads, ceramic shards) suggest a Stone Age settlement in the area. Nothing precise is known about the use of the pass in ancient times and in the Middle Ages.

In 1872 the pass road, today part of Strada Statale 242 di Val Gardena e Passo Sella , was completed. The first hostel (Rifugio Carlo Valentini, 2218 m) on the Sella Pass, in which mainly commercial travelers were accommodated, was built in 1884 by Carlo Valentini below the top of the pass. In 1903 the Sellajochhaus (2180 m; built by the German and Austrian Alpine Club) followed, and another inn ( Maria Flora , 2240 m) was built in 1934. All three accommodations still exist after renovation and are now used for tourism.

On July 14, 1946, the Sella Pass was the scene of a mass rally of the Ladins (with over 3000 participants) in favor of connecting their valleys and all of South Tyrol to Austria.

The first cable car from the First World War was used to supply troops. With the boom in tourism in the Dolomites in the mid-1950s, more lifts, hiking trails, via ferratas and ski slopes were built.

Infrastructure / tourism

The Sella Pass, together with the Pordoi Pass , the Gardena Pass and the Campolongo Pass, form the four-pass tour “Sellarunde” (Italian Sella Ronda ) around the Sella Group .

In winter the area is connected to the national ski cooperative Dolomiti Superski . The Sella Group can be circled in both directions on prepared ski slopes .

In summer, a gondola lift leads from the Sellajochhaus to the Langkofelscharte and the Toni-Demetz-Hütte . Further chairlifts below the Langkofel group reach the Grohmann ridge. Hiking trails lead west through the Langkofelscharte or around the Langkofel to S. Cristina in Val Gardena , south to Col Rodella and Campitello in the Fassatal or through Val Salei to Canazei and north between large boulders and scree slopes of the Langkofel (the so-called stone town ) through to Wolkenstein . To the east, the difficult Pößnecker via ferrata leads into the Sella towers.

The ski area is not on the top of the pass, but around 2 km further north on the Val Gardena side below the top of the pass. It is accessible by cable cars and ski lifts on Piz Sella and Piz Seteur, starting from Plan de Gralba , a district of Selva.

The Sella Pass is also located along the route of the Coppa d'Oro delle Dolomiti automobile race .

Web links

Commons : Sella Pass  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ernst Höhne: Knaur's Lexicon for Mountain Friends / The Alps between Chiemsee and the Dolomites . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-426-26222-3 , pp. 255 .
  2. ↑ a b Sella Pass on valgardena-groeden.com
  3. ↑ in the Val Gardena variety
  4. ↑ in the Fassaner variety
  5. ^ "Ladins dles Dolomites" by Giuseppe Richebuono
  6. ↑ Michael Forcher : Tyrol's history in words and pictures. Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 1984, ISBN 3-85218-006-6 , p. 244 (The legend speaks of the Passo Gardena, but the Passo Sella is clearly shown.)