Unterer Hauenstein Pass

Unterer Hauenstein Pass (el. 691 m.) is a

mountain pass A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since mountain ranges can present formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both Human migration, human and animal migration t ...

in the

Jura Mountains The Jura Mountains ( ) are a sub-alpine mountain range a short distance north of the Western Alps and mainly demarcate a long part of the French–Swiss border. While the Jura range proper (" folded Jura", ) is located in France and Switzerla ...

between the

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Basel-Country 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 ...

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. It connects

Buckten Buckten is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Sissach (district), Sissach in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. History Buckten is first mentioned in 1266 as ''Butuchon''. Geograph ...

in Basel-Country and Trimbach in Solothurn. The pass road has a maximum grade of 6 percent. The pass was probably already used by the

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. In 1993, Roman artifacts were discovered at the pass. It also lies close to the Roman settlement of

Augusta Raurica Augusta Raurica is a Roman archaeological site and an open-air museum in Switzerland located on the south bank of the Rhine river about 20 km east of Basel near the villages of Augst and Kaiseraugst. It is the site of the oldest known Ro ...

. Hauenstein, Unterer Hauenstein, Unterer Mountain passes of the canton of Solothurn Mountain passes of Basel-Landschaft Basel-Landschaft–Solothurn border {{Solothurn-geo-stub