Thurn Pass
Pass Thurn, summit, looking south
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The Pass Thurn is a 1274 m above sea level. A. high altitude alpine pass in the Kitzbühel Alps, the Pinzgau links (upper Salzach ) with Tyrol. The nearest town on the Tyrolean side of Kitzbühel, in the southern province of Salzburg, it is Mittersill.
Location and landscape
The pass is located on the main ridge of the Kitzbühel Alps, also called grass mountains show here smooth profile, and open up a wide fit landscape. To the west of the pass Resterhöhe is (1894 m above sea level. A. ), east of Schellenberg (2048 m above sea level. A. ). In the vicinity of the pass rises the flowing northward Jochberger Ache, and just east lie the sources of Saalachstrasse. To Salzach drain Jochberg Bach, Einödenbach and - east from the Wasenmoos the pass - the Engbach.
From Mittersill the road climbs first two switchbacks up to a spur, 140 m above the market. The former castle at this point, the present castle Mittersill has secured the pass road from about the 11th century. After that provides the relatively gently rising road for miles a panoramic view of the Pinzgau and the rock and ice peaks of the Hohe Tauern. Steep below and south of the pass is the string associated with Mittersill scattered settlement Paßthurn below it also says salzburger hand Jochberg and Jochberthurn. On the north side of the road lowers quickly and in two other serpentines Jochbergwald, and then follows the Jochberger Ache northward to the Tyrolean Jochberg.
The sign on top of the pass is the height one meter too low with " 1273 meters above sea level " on.
History
The Pass Thurn is a since time immemorial important pass.
The transition is a product of Pleistocene glaciers. In the ice ages the glaciers of the Großvenediger kept reaching over the Pinzgau region to the north and left behind in his retreat a gentle depression which is covered with glacial debris. Well shortly after the retreat of the glacier from the summit, he was exceeded by Stone Age people.
Later in the Bronze Age, which is necessary for the bronze production of copper ore was mined and processed. At several sites copper slags and tools appeared. In the Iron Age Celts probably built the old nature paths from a first mule. This served until well into modern times the salt trade.
Originally called the whole area in and around the present-day Pass Thurn, particularly the north, Jochberg, it was then called Thurn Tauern, and more recently as Pass Thurn. The name doors Tauern already appears in a document of 1292, and until the 19th century so familiar: the Tauern these passports archbishops of Salzburg possessed with the Tauern houses a special infrastructure, and also here there is a hospital ( a commissioned farm ) today on the Tyrolean side, connected to the hospital on the Weitau in St. Johann ( affiliert ) was. Until 1803 both belonged to the Archbishopric of Salzburg pages of the passport, and until 1810 the Duchy of Salzburg, and the Pass Thurn was a mountain innererstaatlicher transition
Even today, the Pass Thurn, who is now expanded to the latest an extremely important significance for the trade and transport of Tyrol to the southeast of Austria. Moreover, there is the Felbertauerntunnel from Mittersill the single intra- Austrian combination of North Tyrol with its exclave of East Tyrol - since the Schengen agreement has this aspect but largely lost its meaning.
Summit, looking north
Bend in the north ramp
Tourism and Attractions
Ski Resterhöhe / Jochberg
At the pass, there are several chairlifts and ski lifts. These belong directly to the ski paradise Kitzbühel ( Kitzbühel -Kirchberg ski area, Mountain Kitzbühel ). A gondola lift, the Kitzbühel Alps Panorama Lift, the Hollerbach connects to the resort Pass Thurn, was opened in December 2005.
Nature
In the vicinity of the pass the Wasenmoos and some other high- Moore is. They were exploited 1700-1960 for cutting peat and are now - in part - as a natural monument ( NDM 152) strictly protected.