Rawilpass

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The Rawilpass (French Col du Rawil ) is a 2'429 m high Swiss mountain crossing in the Bernese Alps. Over the pass, the border between the cantons of Bern and Valais. The pass provides the connection between Lenk im Simmental and the middle Rhône valley, east of Sion. By Rawilpass the Wildhorn group is separated in the west from the wild hubbub group in the East.

Near the summit there are several small lakes, the Rawilseeleni. South of the pass includes a high valley ( Alpage you Rawil ) to which has extensive alpine pastures, interspersed with some carts and boulder fields. The Liène drains the area of ​​Rawilpasses south to the Rhône.

The pass was committed already in Roman times and the Middle Ages and was an important transition from the Bernese Oberland dar. into Mittelwallis The actual mule track over the Rawilpass begins in the north at the Iffigenalp that today with a post Car Course ( minibus ) or by car via a temporally regulated road can be achieved. The path meanders in serpentine by a rock wall up. He had to be forced open in the 18th century from the rock. In the south, the trail ends at the Lac de Tseuzier, which can also be approached by postal bus or car. On the western slope of the White Horn east of the pass are at 2'791 m above sea level. M. wild bustle cottages of the Swiss Alpine Club SAC, which often serve as accommodation at a crossing pass.

As part of the Swiss national road network was planned long to create a direct connection between Bern and Sion. The A6 motorway should be continued from its current end at Brodhüsi by the Simmental and the Rawilpass pass under in a 4 km long summit tunnel. These plans have been given up in 1984.

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