Tuxer Joch

Tux yoke from Vallarga southbound

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The Tux yoke is a mountain pass on the border between the Tux Alps to the north and the Zillertal Alps in the south. The yoke is located at an altitude of 2338 m above sea level. A., and joins the Zillertal with the Wipptal little north of the Brenner Pass. Northeast below the pass is the Tuxerjochhaus.

History

About the Tux yoke introduces often committed in former times mule track from the burner into the Zillertal. Even prehistoric man was the yoke known finds of equipment from chert and flint südalpinem testify to a commission of the Tux yoke by Stone Age man. From the Middle Bronze Age, a decorative pin was found at the pass. Herds of cattle moved through the yoke, as well as farmers and small traders with local products. Sometimes, however, also attracted funeral processions through the yoke, as the village of Tux once belonged on the other side of the yoke to the municipality Schmirn, even the dead had to be done there. Later, these canonical classification was chosen to modify the secular administration but was not changed until 1926. Meanwhile, the Tux Valley had long been oriented to the Ziller Valley, with which it was connected in the meantime via a driveway. So also lost the Tux yoke since the 19th century its importance for local traffic and is now used only as a transition for hikers.

In the year 1940/41, a plan was created to build a tourist road over the Tux yoke, even an entire project has been developed. Alone tourist purposes not served this project because for the German Wehrmacht had a side road to the Brenner pass a significant military and strategic importance.

Sources and maps

• Steffan Bruns: Alpine passes - Passes on both sides of the Brenner route 1, L. Staack man -Verlag, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-88675-256-0
• Alpine Club map 1:50,000, sheet 33, Tux Alps