Bocktschingel
The Bocktschingel is a mountain of the Glarus Alps, located on the border between the Swiss cantons of Uri and Glarus. It lies south-east of the Klausen Pass, on the range east of the Clariden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,078 metres
- Description: mountain in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Boggtschingel”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Clariden and Gemsfairenstock.
Clariden
Peak
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The Clariden is a mountain in the Glarus Alps, located at an elevation of 3,267 m between the Swiss cantons of Uri and Glarus. While on the north the Clariden overlooks the 1,948 m high Klausen Pass, the south side is covered by large glaciers and firn.
Gemsfairenstock
Peak
The Gemsfairenstock is a mountain of the Glarus Alps, located on the border between the Swiss cantons of Uri and Glarus. It lies east of the Klausen Pass, on the range east of the Clariden. A trail leads to its summit via the western ridge.
Klausen Pass
Mountain saddle
Photo: FeG, Public domain.
Klausen Pass is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps connecting Altdorf in the canton of Uri with Linthal in the canton of Glarus. Somewhat unusually, the boundary between the two cantons does not lie at the summit of the pass, but some 8 kilometres down the slope towards Linthal, with the summit being in Uri.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Urnerboden and Unterschächen.
Urnerboden
Village
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The Urnerboden is a village in the high valley of Urner Boden, and also an alp and a small high Alpine permanent settlement in the Swiss canton of Uri.
Unterschächen
Village
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Unterschächen is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland, situated in the upper Schächental. Unterschächen is situated 10 km west of Bocktschingel.
Bocktschingel
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Spiringen, Uri, Canton of Uri, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.84919° or 46° 50′ 57″ northLongitude
8.89369° or 8° 53′ 37″ eastElevation
3,078 metres (10,098 feet)Open location code
8FRCRVXV+MFOpenStreetMap ID
node 11537193922OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Bocktschingel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوكتشينجيل”
- Cebuano: “Bocktschingel”
- Dutch: “Bocktschingel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بوكتشينجيل”
- German: “Bocktschingel”
- German: “Boggtschingel”
- Indonesian: “Bocktschingel”
- Ladin: “Boggtschingel”
- Persian: “بوکتشینگل”
- Swedish: “Bocktschingel”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bocktschingel”. Photo: Engie, CC BY-SA 3.0.