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The Belchenflue is a mountain of the Jura, located on the border between the 
Belchenflue on Hikr
Mountains of Switzerland Mountains of Basel-Landschaft Mountains of the Jura Mountains of the canton of Solothurn One-thousanders of Switzerland Basel-Landschaft–Solothurn border {{Solothurn-geo-stub
Swiss
Swiss most commonly refers to:
* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Swiss may also refer to: Places
* Swiss, Missouri
* Swiss, North Carolina
* Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
* Swiss Café, an old café located ...
cantons of Basel-Landschaft
Canton of Basel-Landschaft or Basel-Country, informally known as Baselland or Baselbiet (; ; ; ; ), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of five districts and its capital city is Liestal. It is traditional ...
and Solothurn
Solothurn ( ; ; ; ; ) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is located in the north-west of Switzerland on the banks of the Aare and on the foot of the Weissenstein Jura mountains.
The town is ...
, south of Eptingen
Eptingen is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Waldenburg (district), Waldenburg in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
History
Eptingen is first mentioned in 1145 as ''Ebittingen''.
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. The nearby Belchenflue Pass links the two cantons.
The mountain is also known as the Swiss Belchen (''Schweizer Belchen'') and is part of the so-called Belchen system
The Belchen system comprises five mountains with the name ''Belchen'' around the tripoint of Germany, France, and Switzerland that may have been used by the Celts as a solar calendar. The term is an extension of the Belchen triangle. The mountai ...
, a group of mountains with the name "Belchen" that may have been part of a Celtic
Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to:
Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
*Celtic music
*Celtic nations
Sports Foot ...
sun calendar
A solar calendar is a calendar whose dates indicates the season or almost equivalently the apparent position of the Sun relative to the stars. The Gregorian calendar, widely accepted as a standard in the world, is an example of a solar calendar.
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.Chevrier, Jean-François. ''From Basel – Herzog & de Meuron'', Basel: Birkhäuser, 2016, p. 52.
See also
*Belchen Tunnel
The Belchen Tunnel is a motorway tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the A2 motorway from Basel to Chiasso. It links Eptingen in the canton of Basel-Country with Hägendorf in the Canton of Solothurn. The tunnel was opened in 1966, and is lo ...
References
External links
Belchenflue on Hikr
Mountains of Switzerland Mountains of Basel-Landschaft Mountains of the Jura Mountains of the canton of Solothurn One-thousanders of Switzerland Basel-Landschaft–Solothurn border {{Solothurn-geo-stub