Hochtannbergpass
View over the pass to the east, in the background the beaver head
The Hochtannbergpass is a mountain pass in Vorarlberg, which separates the Allgäu Alps from Lechquellengebirge. It connects the Lech Valley in Warth with the valley of the Bregenzerach to Schoppernau. The lowest point of the watershed has a height of 1660 m. About the Hochtannbergpass the Bregenzerwaldstraße L200, which reaches a height of 1676 m runs. A safety barrier is short in the winter if the weather or snow conditions. In the flat landscape of the pass Kalbelesee and slightly to the southwest of the Körbersee is.
Avalanche
After a landslide in early 2002 from Saloberkopf the distance above the mountain pass on the part Schröcken has in the meantime - Warth secured with avalanche starting barriers. The Bregenzerwaldstraße was renovated and expanded in this area in 2007.
History
About the Hochtannbergpass, which is often referred to as high Krumbachsattel already led 15-16. Century, a mule track, which was called in former deeds even as a " highway ". The at the time at best bereitbare mule was a long time little attention and was extended until very late modern. He was committed primarily by the Walser people who wanted to him to the Lech Valley and the Small valley. To achieve the latter, but still had the Gemstelpass (1971 m ) are exceeded, still leads over this a mountain path. Already in the late Middle Ages, a chapel and an inn was built in pass near, the core of today's settlement Hochkrumbach.
The only 1676 m high pass is accessible by a road only since 1954, before that ended the carriage road in Schröcken. With some interruptions 25 years was built on the road. Parallel to and south of the present road over the pass from the apex to the east ( in the Lech Valley ) the "Old Salt Road " to Warth, a mule track, which can be used as a hiking trail today. North of the road over the pass another trail Warth addition, miter direction.
The Old West ramp section Schröcken - Nesslegg with their formerly extremely tight turns and the immediately adjoining steep slopes was later replaced by a three-kilometer long, completely new trassierte route and made safe for winter. In this area, eight bridges were built with a total length of 715 meters and two tunnels several hundred meters in length.