Rohrer Sattel
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Rohrer Sattel is a high mountain pass
Mountain pass
A mountain pass is a route through a mountain range or over a ridge. If following the lowest possible route, a pass is locally the highest point on that route...

 in the Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n Alps
Alps
The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....

, located in the Bundesland
States of Austria
Austria is a federal republic made up of nine states, known in German as Länder . Since Land is also the German word for a country, the term Bundesländer is often used instead to avoid ambiguity. The Constitution of Austria uses both terms...

of Lower Austria
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Lower Austria is the northeasternmost state of the nine states in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria since 1986 is Sankt Pölten, the most recently designated capital town in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria had formerly been Vienna, even though Vienna is not officially part of Lower Austria...

.

It connects Rohr im Gebirge
Rohr im Gebirge
Rohr im Gebirge is a village in the Wiener Neustadt-Land district of Lower Austria in Austria.-Geography:Rohr im Gebirge is located in the Industrieviertel, the first industrialised part of Lower Austria...

 and Gutenstein
Gutenstein
Gutenstein may mean:*A district of the city of Sigmaringen: Gutenstein *A municipality in Lower Austria: Gutenstein, Austria*The German name for the Slovenian municipality of Ravne na Koroškem...

 and has a maximum grade of 84 percent. The pass road is the Gutensteinerstraße (B 21).

See also

  • List of highest paved roads in Europe
  • List of mountain passes
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