It is the easternmost summit above 1,300 metres in the Jura Mountains.

The tunnel of the railway line Solothurn–Moutier from Oberdorf to Gänsbrunnen on the other side was opened in 1908.

The gondola lift crosses the railway track in front of the tunnel portal at Oberdorf, which is the only setting of this kind in Switzerland.

[citation needed] The pass road leading from the village of Oberdorf across the Weissenstein Pass (1,279 m [4,196 ft]) to Gänsbrunnen is one of the steepest in Switzerland (22%).

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