Scharnitz Pass
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The Scharnitz Pass is a narrow section of the upper Isar valley in the Northern Limestone Alps. It lies at a height of about 955 m on the Austro-German border between the states of Bavaria and Tyrol.
Scharnitz Pass with Scharnitz, view from Southeast
View of the pass from the south, Lower left: the Seefelder Straße (B 177) near Gießenbach; background: Mittenwald; right: the Rotwandlspitze (with the Scharnitz Pass below and left of it)
Scharnitz Pass with view of the west side of the Brunnensteinspitze (subpeak of the Rotwandlspitze), the Marchklamm (and Schneerest) runs almost straight downhill. Right rear: the Pleisenspitze
Porta Claudia
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The Porta Claudia is a former fortification at the Scharnitz Pass, where the valley of the River Isar narrows near the village of Scharnitz, on the Bavarian border near Mittenwald. The Porta Claudia –
Scharnitz Pass
…agreed the year before that moved the border of Tyrol to within a kilometre south of Scharnitz. In 1633 Tyrol was granted the right to build a castle, Porta Claudia, at the Scharnitz Pass on Werdenfels territory in order to protect themselves from the advancing Swedish Army in the Thirty Years' War. By a treaty of…
Remains of Porta Claudia on the western hillside
Leutascher Schanz