Pyhrnpass

Pass with sign in April 2009

The Pyhrnpass is 954 m above sea level. A. High Pass on the border of the Austrian states of Upper Austria in the north and Steiermark in the south. It lies between Warscheneck and Bosruck ( Ennstaler Alps) in the Northern Limestone Alps in the region Pyhrn Eisenwurzen.

The Pyhrnpass provides a very low transition is in this area of the Eastern Alps and is for this reason since the Neolithic significant. It was created by a landslide, possibly triggered by the 300 km north-west of the Nordlinger Ries asteroid impact, which, in the Graz Basin, diverting the north-facing run the Ur - Enns to the south.

Traffic

About the Pass leads the Pyhrnpass Road ( B138 ). It has a maximum slope of 10%. On the Styrian side can be reached from the pass at the Pyhrnpass - road 12 km Liezen in the Enns Valley. On the Upper Austrian side, Spital am Pyhrn.

Since 1983, the passport will be relieved by the Bosrucktunnel the Phyrn motorway ( A 9), after there is the railway tunnel of the same name since 1906. The importance of this pass road has therefore been greatly reduced, it is also used as an alternate route due to the mandatory toll in the tunnel. Therefore, applies over the pass between Liezen and Wurzeralm - station a weight limit for vehicles over 7.5 tonnes (excluding bus line services). The average daily traffic over the pass is 2,700 vehicles compared to 7700 by the Bosrucktunnel (as of 2001).

On the Upper Austrian side lies west of the pass the Wurzeralm hiking and skiing and east of Bosruck, which is a popular hiking and skiing mountain with 1,992 m.

Name

The name of the passport is also a popular source of error in essays and the like, like to set the " y " after the "h". But the word does not come from the Greek, but as well as the nearby mountain Pyhrgas perhaps from the Celtic, where Pyr for, mountain ' is (see Pyrenees ), but also a Slavic descent is up for debate (see the close Windischgarsten, today Slovenian PRDO, area on Bergeck or place names such as Pyhra, Pyhrabruck, Pyhrafeld in Lower Austria ). In documents of the years 1190-1259 the Pyhrnpass is called as pirdononis, which could mean something like " pointed mountain" (see pyramid). At the foundation of the monastery Gleink by the Styrian Margrave Otaker, is in a deed dated pirno monte talk. The present form is since about 16-17. Called century.

The Noric Street

From Palaeolithic finds, the one made in the Gamssulzenhöhle above the lake Gleinkersee, and probably as old rock paintings here, it is concluded that the Pyhrnpass was known for thousands of years and was used. Getting reliable witnesses for cultural connections over the Pyhrnpass come across but not until the Neolithic period. In the early Bronze Age, the Pyhrnpass developed into the most important transition in the region, the finds along the route Phyrn are then also quite rich. But even in the Bronze Age ended this probably the first great flowering of Phyrn passport. Through the Hallstatt salt mines, the transport routes had shifted to the west, in favor of the transitions of the Tauern and the later Salzkammergut. In the Iron Age Celts then penetrate into the area around the Pyhrnpass, in consequence flourished traffic through this transition again. The Pyhrnpass was part of the important trade route which connected the northern parts of the country Noricum on the Pyhrnpass, Schoberpass and Neumarkt saddle, with the south-east. Soon, important settlements that benefited from trade along this road emerged. Thus the Celtic Noricum settlements Gabromagus ( Windischgarsten ) and Ernolatia be (probably at St. Pancras ) suspects in the immediate vicinity of the Phyrn passport.

At present, turning the Romans invaded the region, not as conquerors, but more as a protector of the Noric before the northern German peoples. But with time they Romanized Noricum and made it one of its provinces. Initially, the Romans used probably the relatively good Norian streets without these further expand appreciably. But of course they were still used by the numerous long-distance traders, even accelerated, but now Roman troops and officials were added to these. The soon forced to build the roads and the surrounding infrastructure. Postal stations and rest stops were therefore established, the germ cells of later cities. The pre-Roman sunken roads were rehabilitated, constructed as still detectable today on the north side of the Phyrn passport and numerous bridges new. The developed road reached a width of about 1.80 m and forms in places today, the lowest layer of the modern Pyhrnstraße. The Roman road was presumably largely due to a very similar route as the present highway. What would explain that it was only a little of it, because the old road was made by the long-term use and subsequent modernization largely unrecognizable. Between Bliem and the pass, and between Upper and Lower Hermitage, the route of the Roman road more but proven by the main road from by being out here directly on the transition.

On Pyhrnpass it came in the wake of the coup in July 1934 fighting, where some people, innocent bystanders, were killed. Army from Upper Austria attempted coup distribute, among other things, a woman died while in the former Tavern on the pass.

Swell

Pass in Austria
Alpine pass
Mountain pass
Ennstaler Alps
Spital am Pyhrn
Liezen

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