Flexenstrasse used badge stocknagel hiking medallion G4928

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Flexenstrasse used badge stocknagel hiking medallion G4928:
$5.95

Flexenstrasse- Austria

Thisis constructed of either tin or aluminum and is an used medallion/stocknagel.

From the largest single collection of stocknagel/medallions that I have obtained from Europe to this day. This is from a group of items that have been collected over the last 45 years. The ages of each individual item can not be determined unless they are date stamped.

This stocknagel is to be mounted on a walking stick with two nails to show the places that they had visited. These are called either pins, mounts,shields, stocknagel, medallions, placckette/scudetti or badges and do the same thing as lapel or hat pins, they tell everyone where you have been and what you have seen.

Flexen Pass (el. 1773 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Austrian Alps in the Bundesland of Vorarlberg.

It connects the upper Lech River valley between Warth, Lech, and Zürs with the Klostertal near Stuben.

The pass road was built in 1940 and leads to the road over the Arlberg pass. It became a necessity when the Arlberg railroad was opened in 1884. Before that, traffic mostly went over the Tannberg by way of Oberstdorf.

The first stretch of road was opened in October 1897 up to the pass. At first, the road was shielded from the danger of avalanche by protective covers, but eventually a tunnel was built, and then a bridge over the Hölltobel. The road was only 3 meters wide. In 1909 the road was finished into the Lech Valley in Tyrol. Since 1936 the pass has been open in winter. Since 1948, funds from the Marshall Plan have been utilized to improve the road and make it safer from avalanches.

In 2000, plans were unveiled for a tunnel from Stuben to Zürs. However, the plans were tabled for lack of funds.

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