Radstädter Tauern Pass

Pass in Obertauern

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The Radstadt Tauern Pass is a 1738 m above sea level. A. high mountain pass between two mountain ranges of the Lower Tauern, the Schladming Tauern mountains in the east and the Radstadt Tauern in the West. The pass is located in the province of Salzburg in Austria and combines the Pongau and Lungau.

About this collocated in antiquity crossing of the Alps during today's Katschberg Straße ( B99), which runs from Radstadt in the Enns valley over the pass to Tweng and Mauterndorf im Lungau and finally Sankt Michael im Lungau and the Katschberg Pass ( 1641 m above sea level. A. ) to Carinthia. Directly on the pass is the winter resort of Obertauern.

Near the summit, the two rivers originate Northern Taurach ( Pongauer Taurach ) and Southern Taurach ( Lungau Taurach ), both of which run parallel to the track Katschberg road. In both ramps the Katschberg road and the respective Taurach traverse each a bottleneck. In the north ramp is very close Taurachklamm, in the southern slope of the Twenger Talpass.

Name

Namesake of the pass is the town of Radstadt in the Enns Valley, the pass in turn is named after the mountain range of the Radstadt Tauern.

History

Already in pre-Roman times built the Taurisci a road over the Radstadt Tauern, which probably was passable even in Norican time. The used by the Romans finished road which later evolved into one of the most important Alpine road at all, after extensive improvements and upgrades were carried out partially. Both ramps pass several Roman milestones from Schaidberger marble have been preserved as landmarks of renewal. Over the years, the road fell into disrepair, however, so that the ore transport almost came to a halt on it.

The Roman Road

An extensive renovation of the Radstadt Tauern mountain pass was made in the Roman Empire under Septimius Severus ( 193-211 ). The former governor of Rome to Pannonia and later Emperor built several alpine roads. The new route of the Tauriskerstraße led thereby to a large extent on the route of the old road. The particular pass near new trassierte section even brought a reduction to the old path with it. The Radstadt Tauern pass road was built as a military road first order to create a fast link with Italy at the constant defensive battles of the Roman legions on the northern border.

With the help of sweeping the Roman road builders overcame a height difference of 725 meters at an average gradient of 8.25 %. Some researchers see in the 2.5 -meter-wide road a mule; nevertheless is likely that he was passable by carts in overall length, including over the pass of time. Large slabs formed the road surface, high limit blocks limited the road, in which an inclination of the road surface for the water flow caused. In the Roman Straßenitinerarien the passport of the Radstadt Tauern " In Alpe " registered under the name; a term that at least called in late antiquity the Roman mansio in the immediate pass nearby. " In Alpe " was also the point 16 miles of the road.

Pictures

Südrampe

Lungauer Taurach between Twenger Talpass and Radstadt Tauern Pass

Twenger Talpass

Roman milestone of the Emperor L. Septimius Severus ( 193-211 ) on the south ramp

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