Wandflue

The Wandflue (often also written Wandfluh ) is a ridge in the mountains in the first Jura mountain chain above Bettlach in the canton of Solothurn. The highest point is 1,399 m above sea level. M. The ridge drops steeply to the southeast, at the top with a 2.5 -kilometer-long and 50 meter high rock wall, which is the emblem of Bettlach. The wall extends to the municipality of Selzach above the mountain restaurants "Upper Brüggli ". Below this wall, the area is wooded, sloping to steep and almost inaccessible. Often there are also boulders and smaller debris cone between the pines and larches. They are evidence of more recent, smaller crashes, but these are not of concern.

Formation

The Wandflue was created by a landslide, as at the end of the last ice age ( between 12,000 and 10,000 BC ) withdrew the Rhone Glacier. This side of the mountain had no support and slipped. Huge masses of debris slid as far as the River Aare. On the gently rising alluvial fan is now the village Bettlach. The bed Lacher landslide is one of the major landslides in addition to the Flims rockslide or landslide of Goldau.

Walks and passages

The Wandflue can be climbed without a rope and safety at the following two locations. Both ways are recommended only sure-footed, vertigo people.

• The first trail is located above the Bettlach. He begins above the mountain restaurants Bettlach mountain and leads first zigzag through the forest and over rubble. Below the cliff in a carved stone, fortified stairway that leads between two staggered cliffs directly to the ridge begins. Just a few meters behind the ridge trail next to the demolition site is a stone wall that marks the boundary between the two communities and Bettlach Grenchen. The plateau behind the stone wall called Upper Grenchenberg. Only 200 meters from the location away is the pass road from Grenchen to Court not ( closed in winter from Untergrenchenberg Court or, if there is snow ).

• The second way to get to the top Grenchenberg, located above Selzach. On a mat west of the restaurant "Upper Brüggli " begins the trail, which is also called Küfferweg. He first leads straight up the pasture and through a small forest to the north. At the cliff reached, begins a very narrow path that must be partially committed and sideways. This leads up to the rock face up ( about 200 meters altitude).