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LOTSCHEN PASS

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 20 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LOB-LUP
LOTSCHEN PASS , or LoTSCHBERG, an easy
glacier
  pass (8842 ft.) leading from Kandersteg in the Bernese Oberland to the Lotschen valley in the
Valais
 . It is a very old pass, first mentioned distinctly in 1352, but probably crossed previously by the Valaisans who colonized various parts of the Bernese Oberland. In 1384 and again in 1419 battles were fought on it between the Bernese and the Valaisans, while in 1698 a mule path (of which traces still exist) was constructed on the Bernese slope,'though not continued beyond owing to the fear of the Valaisans that the Bernese would come over and alter their
religion
 . In 1906 the piercing of a
tunnel
  (82 m.
long
 ) beneath this pass was begun, starting a little above Kandersteg and ending at Goppenstein near the mouth of the Lotschen valley. Subsidies were granted by both the confederation and the
canton
  of
Bern
 . This pass is to be carefully distinguished from the Lotschenliicke (10,512 ft.), another easy
glacier
  pass which leads from the head of the Lotschen valley to the
Great
  Aletsch glacier. (W. A. B. C.)


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