Lägern

Lägerngrat from the west of Ennetbaden

Warehouses of the East, from the mire seen.

The warehouses ( rare: the warehouses, outdated also Lägeren ) is a ten kilometer long, narrow ridge between Baden and Dielsdorf in the Swiss cantons of Aargau and Zurich.

Geology

The warehouses is the easternmost foothills of the Jura Mountains and runs east - west direction. The pointed to a ridge ridge was unfolded before about 9-4 million years ago in the late Tertiary thrust through the Alps to the northwest. It consists mainly of Malmkalk which is exposed in Baden and on the ridge. Apart from that the whole mountain is forested.

By tectonics, the rock layers were pushed to the north, where it came to folding, which passed in places at a thrust fault. A large part of the folded material was removed by erosion again over time, thereby forming Antiklinaltäler, eg the valley in which the town lies Ennetbaden. The warehouses itself is largely represent only the southern part of the original anticline, remnants of northern counterpart can still be found in Geissberg north of Ennetbaden and the stone Buck in honor of things. Disintegration lie on the northern slope and on the ridge of warehouses (and correspondingly on the southern slope of the example Geissberg ) the edges of the plates free. On Geissberg the plates are practically perpendicular and are by the overthrust even suggest " tipping over " partly to the north (see picture).

On the warehouses you can find fossils. The most common findings include ammonites from the Jurassic period. On the northern slope of the warehouses, in Oberehrendingen (see figure) was mined until 1901 gypsum in the so-called Gipsgruebe. This left open pit is seen particularly well at the termination characteristic of the Jura folding of the rock strata. In Sünikon at Dielsdorf limestone is broken today.

The geologist Casimir Mösch contributed significantly to the study of the Aargau Jura and the warehouses was his preferred area of ​​research.

Attractions

The highest points are called from west to east, the point 802 m, also Wettinger horn, the horn Castle ( 859 m), the highest elevation on the ruins of old warehouses, 866 m above sea level. M. and Hochwacht ( 856 m).

The view from the lookout point on the castle horn to the south extends ( visible only in the winter, as the view in summer is obstructed by vegetation ) of Santis Mountain in the Appenzell Alps on the Glarus Alps, with the Todi, the Urner Alps to the Titlis to the Bernese Alps with some four thousand ( Finstaarhorn, Lauteraarhorn Schreckhorn, United Fiescherhorn, Aletschhorn and Virgin ). In the foreground is some distinctive points in the Central Plateau and the Alps can be identified, eg Lake Zurich with Uetliberg and the mountains around Lake Lucerne with the Rigi and Pilatus. To the north, offers a view into the Black Forest to the Feldberg as highest point.

On the Hochwacht holiday restaurant was already built in 1895. In the immediate vicinity there is a south facing, large observation deck that allows for expansive views of the Alps. Compared to Burghorn you from here a clear view to the east to the Zurich airport and the Santis.

West of the Hochwacht lie the ruins Old warehouses. It was built by the barons of rain mountain and probably destroyed in 1267. Still visible today is the rectangular enclosure 20 x 67 m and in 1982 repaired Asked Sodbrunnen. The Hochwacht was part of the created in the 17th century by the Zurich government military alarm system. It combined multiple, inter alia, high Wachten on the Uetliberg and the Irchel.

Newer buildings on the warehouses are in Wettingen the Castle Restaurant Schartenfels, further east on the south slope below the castle horn a measuring tower of the National Observatory for air pollutants in Switzerland, as well as the radome of the Swiss air traffic control Skyguide on the Hochwacht. This radar station was renovated in 2006/7. Near Dielsdorf situated on a rocky outcrop, the castle town Regenberg.

Trail

Between Baden and Dielsdorf a mountain trail, a section of the Jura Mountain Trail runs. The approximately four-hour hike is particularly popular at weekends.

After the castle Schartenfels the road forks. The more interesting route leads directly to the ridge and is signaled as a mountain trail white-red- white. The path is often only about twenty inches wide and requires sure-footedness. This route was already fatal crashes by hikers. The normal route runs north of the ridge.

Planet

When parking in Linden Regenberg a Planet, which leads via Hochwacht to Burghorn begins. The model of the solar system is held at a scale of 1:1 billion. The trail runs from the planet earth on the trail to the west.

Gallery

Rougher path directly to the warehouses ridge

Radar dome of the Swiss air traffic Skyguide

View from the south at Wettingen to the warehouses

The warehouses of the West (left) to east (right)

Alpine panorama from the castle of Horn