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Lorenapass

Recommended by 45 road cyclists out of 46

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Location: Alberschwende, Bezirk Bregenz, Bezirk Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria

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1. Bödele – Losen Pass (1,140 m) – Lorenapass loop from Alberschwende

31.9km

02:19

1,220m

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2. Lorenapass – Northern Ascent to Lorenapass loop from Wolfurt

36.8km

02:17

990m

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3. Lorenapass – View of the Allgäu from Buch loop from Bregenz

103km

05:48

2,260m

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Daniel

June 25, 2025

Small, largely car-free pass between Schwarzenberg and Alberschwende.

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Juergen

July 27, 2022

The oldest access led from the Lorena valley (1182m).
Rhine Valley in the Bregenzerwald. Even Celts and Romans used it
Away probably for their hunting trips. The first settlers of the
Bregenzerwald moved across the Lorena around the year 1000 AD. Them
according to legend, towards the end of the 11th century the religious
offered Merbod, Ilga and Diedo, the three blessed siblings from the
Bregenz Grafenhaus.
In times of war, the Lorenahöhe was also a line of defence,
as the neighboring field name "Letze" says. Temporarily ran here
even a state border.
Not far from here is a mountain hut with the strange name
"Schwedenhütte" and it happened like this: in 1647 the Swedes came
also in the Bregenzerwald during the Thirty Years' War. As
is told, dashing women in the forest at that time are said to have contributed to the Fallenbach
Egg a marauding swedish troop with flails, pitchforks and
defeated the scythes. The pigeon landlady is also there
von Alberschwende, who considered a seriously injured Swede
captives, nursed back to health, and then as shepherds in their
Bèrggut used on the Lorena. He did a good job there
and was very happy.
Many years later he was allowed to do it with the pigeon landlady and her daughters
for the feast of HI. Gebhard with me to Bregenz. But there it was
Lutheran before, after having generously awarded the good Tyrolean wine
had and of the memories of the glorious conquest of the fortress
on the Gebhardsberg had been overwhelmed in the direction of his
original homeland Sweden. But strange: ever
The farther he went, the more he yearned for his
beloved new home on the Lorena. After a long march found
he went there again and stayed in the Lorenahütte, which has been there ever since
"Schwedenhütte" means happy retirement.
The German poet Wilhelm Raabe put the old Swede, the
he called Sven Knudson Knäckabröd, in the novella Der Marsch nach
home"
a lovely monument.

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Distance 1.15 km

Uphill 100 m

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Location: Alberschwende, Bezirk Bregenz, Bezirk Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria

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Lorenapass

Lorenapass

1. Bödele – Losen Pass (1,140 m) – Lorenapass loop from Alberschwende

2. Lorenapass – Northern Ascent to Lorenapass loop from Wolfurt

3. Lorenapass – View of the Allgäu from Buch loop from Bregenz

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