!!!Fernpass

Fern Pass, alt. 1,216 m, mountain pass in North Tirol between the 
upper Inn valley (Gurgl valley) and the upper Loisach valley; divides 
the Mieming mountains from the Lechtal Alps; cuts through the massive 
amounts of debris left over from the collapse of Loreaspitze mountain 
towards the end of the last Ice Age, which blocked the valley which 
had earlier led further south; contains several small lakes without 
outlet (Lake Blindersee, Lake Weissensee and Lake Mittersee in the 
north-east, Lake Samerangersee and Lake Fernsteinersee in the 
south-west. The Romans made use of the pass when crossing the Alps 
from north to south ("Via Claudia Augusta"); in the Middle Ages the 
trade route from Augsburg to Italy ran through the Fern Pass; it was 
only when Augsburg declined in economic importance that the pass lost 
its significance. Today the pass is an Alpine route. A chapel "Zu den 
14 Nothelfern" (dedicated to the 14 auxiliary saints) with an altar 
(first mentioned in documents dating back to 1661) is located on the 
Fern Pass. The nearby Fernstein gorge has a late-Gothic chapel, ruins 
from the former hunting lodge Sigmundsburg and remains of an ancient 
Roman road.


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