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Belchenflue

Belchenflue

Mountain in Switzerland

The Belchenflue is a mountain of the Jura, located on the border between the Swiss cantons of Basel-Landschaft and Solothurn, south of Eptingen. The nearby Belchenflue Pass links the two cantons.

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The mountain is also known as the Swiss Belchen (Schweizer Belchen) and is part of the so-called Belchen System, a group of mountains with the name "Belchen" that may have been part of a Celtic sun calendar.[2]

Distant view from the Belchenflue to the Bernese Alps in a distance of about 100 km

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References

  1. [1]
    Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps. The key col is located west of the summit at 1,055 metres.
  2. [2]
    Chevrier, Jean-François. From Basel - Herzog & de Meuron, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2016, p. 52.
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