Zügen Gorge

The Zügen Gorge as seen from Jenisberg , Davos Monstein in the center of the picture

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : Painting Tinzenhorn - Zügenschlucht near Monstein 1919/1920 ( Kirchner Museum Davos )

The Zügen Gorge is a three kilometer long passage created by the Landwasser between Wiesen and Monstein in the Davos landscape .

The gorge is framed by the Steig and Silberberg rock formations .

The Davos – Filisur cantonal road crossed the gorge until 1974 . Since then, like the Davos Platz – Filisur railway of the Rhaetian Railway, it has been laid as a Landwasser tunnel in the mountain. The old trains road is passable for walkers and as a rock trail expelled.

Since the Zügen Gorge often had to be closed due to the risk of avalanches, the Rhaetian Railway between Davos Glaris and Wiesen offered car transport as required in the winter months up to 1974 .

Web link

• Interest group trains - Landwasser, with map

Individual evidence

1. ^ `` Eisenbahn-Amateur '' magazine 1/2013, page 19

Coordinates: 46 ° 42 ′ 24 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 3"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred seventy-six thousand seven hundred and ninety-four  /  175 433