!!!Gerlospass

Gerlos Pass (also Pinzgauer Hoeh´), provinces of Salzburg/Tyrol, 
alt. 1,509 m, mountain pass at Krimml in the upper Pinzgau 
valley, links the valleys Zillertal (Tyrol) and Salzachtal (Pinzgau, 
province of Salzburg) via the Gerlos valley, serves as connection 
between Zell am Ziller and Krimml and separates the Zillertal Alps 
from the Kitzbuehel Alps. First road built 1630, the Gerlosstrasse 
road via Filzsteinalm pasture and Gerlos plain completed 1962. 
Durlassboden reservoir of the Tauernkraftwerke power stations on the 
west slope.


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