Kreuzberg Saddle (german: Kreuzbergsattel) is a high

mountain pass A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since many of the world's mountain ranges have presented formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both Human migration, human a ...

across the

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in the

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n state of

Carinthia Carinthia (german: Kärnten ; sl, Koroška ) is the southernmost States of Austria, Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its mountains and lakes. The main language is German language, German. Its regional dialects belong to t ...

. The high pass is part of the B 87 ''Weißensee Straße'' highway connecting the market town of

Greifenburg Greifenburg is a market town in the district of Spittal an der Drau in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Geography The settlement stretches in the upper Drava Valley (''Drautal'') between the Kreuzeck mountain range in the north, part of the High ...

in the

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valley with

Gitschtal Gitschtal ( Slovene: ''Višprijska dolina'') is a town in the district of Hermagor in the Austrian state of Carinthia Carinthia (german: Kärnten ; sl, Koroška ) is the southernmost States of Austria, Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, ...

and the district capital Hermagor on the

Gail Gail may refer to: People *Gail (given name), list of notable people with the given name Surname * Jean-Baptiste Gail (1755–1829), French Hellenist scholar * Max Gail (born 1943), American actor * Sophie Gail (1775–1819), French singer and ...

river. The road runs beneath the

Reißkofel The Reißkofel is, at 2,371 metres above the Adriatic (7,779 ft), the highest mountain of the Gailtal Alps east of the ''Lienz Dolomites''. It is situated in the centre of the Gailtal range, part of the Southern Limestone Alps, in the Austrian ...

massif in the west; to the east, a branch-off leads to Lake Weissensee.

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