Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
historical route over the Alps between Germany and Italy, from Breuni, name of a people who lived near there, perhaps Celtic.
Wikipedia
Brenner Pass ( ; ) is a mountain pass through the Alps which forms the border between Italy and Austria. It is one of the principal passes of the Eastern Alpine range and has the lowest altitude among Alpine passes of the area.
Dairy cattle graze in alpine pastures throughout the summer in valleys beneath the pass and on the mountains above it. At lower altitudes, farmers log pine trees, plant crops and harvest hay for winter fodder. Many of the high pastures are at an altitude of over 1,500 metres; a small number of them stands high in the mountains at around 2,000 metres.
The central section of Brenner Pass covers a four-lane motorway and railway tracks connecting Bozen/Bolzano in the south and Innsbruck to the north. The village of Brenner consists of an outlet shopping centre (supermarkets and stores), fruit stores, restaurants, cafes, hotels and a gas station. It has a population of 400 to 600 .
Usage examples of "brenner pass".
It was the middle of January, at eleven o'clock at night, that we left Munich, on a mixed railway train, choosing that time, and the slowest of slow trains, that we might make the famous Brenner Pass by daylight.
It was springtime when Dov's group of Auschwitz refugees embarked on another train that moved into the Austrian Alps and crossed into Italy through the Brenner Pass.
But he could not well take a hundred dozen eggs and a cart-load of hams with him to satisfy the greed of the shipping agent of Venice or the inn-keeper of the Brenner Pass.
On the other hand, Hitler and Mussolini had met on the Brenner Pass the previous Sunday.
Three thousand miles away in Italy, the train heading northward to Germany via the Brenner Pass was thirty minutes out of Rome.
The German army was withdrawing along these same routes from Trento and the Brenner Pass, so General Hayes directed the 10th Mountain Division to attempt to outrun and head off the retreating Germans by pushing up the east side of Lake Garda and taking Trento, where all three routes of the German withdrawal converged.
Girolamo and I would follow the Adige to Meran and the Reschac Pass, while our other companions would take the Brenner Pass road toward Innsbruck.
If we ever come to more friendly terms with Austria this link will see a lot of traffic to Turkey and over the Brenner Pass to Venice and Italy.
As the train plunged into the tunnel at the Brenner Pass, Fuchs stared at his own grim reflection in the window.