Alpe Sücka
The Alpe Sücka is an alp of 130.6 hectares - 54 hectares of which are productive pastures - with 80 grazing rights (Sücka is traditionally a cow) owned by the alpine cooperative of the same name in the Triesenberg municipality of the Principality of Liechtenstein . The alp extends from 1177 to 1706 m above sea level. M . The alpine building and mountain inn are at 1402 m above sea level. M.
With the Alps Sücka, Bargälla, Turna, Sareis, Alpelti, Bärgi and the three cooperative Alps (Silum, Grosssteg and Kleinsteg), Triesenberg has the largest alpine estate in Liechtenstein.
Surname
The name Sücka was spelled differently in the past (e.g. Südtgen or Zückhen ). It should be borrowed from the dialect Sügga , Alemannic Sügge , and mean swampy area .
history
1963 was on the Alpe Sücka at about 1470 m above sea level. M. found a bronze lance tip from the Late Bronze Age (approx. 12th / 11th century BC).
In 1507 there is written evidence that Alpe Sücka belonged to the County of Vaduz . When it was first mentioned in the Brandisischen Urbar (around 1509/17), Sücka was called the Triesner Alp, while the current part of the Düraboda is called its own Walser Alp. In 1562, the immigrant Walsers merged their Alps in the region and used them as community Alps. The Maiensässalpen Silum, Grosssteg and Kleinsteg, however, have remained their own Alpine cooperatives to this day.
Around 1688 Alpe Sücka was owned by the Counts of Hohenems , and from 1712 by the Princely House of Liechtenstein . In the 17th century , the Counts of Hohenems sold some parts of the alp to private individuals from Triesenberg. In the 18th century, the Alpe was leased to Triesenberg farmers, from around 1734 to individuals from the Schellenberg rulership and from 1783 to the early 19th century to the subjects of Schellenberg. Later to the community of Triesen and Triesenberg, most recently to farmers from Vaduz.
The Kulm – Steg road, laid out around 1867/1868, also made the Alpe Sücka accessible for wagons. From the 1870s at the latest, the alpine buildings also served as a whey and climatic spa.
On February 12, 1886, a citizens' meeting on Sücka-Chauf took place in Triesenberg , but the vote was negative with 82 votes in favor and 116 against. In a letter dated December 9, 1886, the state administrator In der Mauer informed the Schaan council that Johann II wanted to sell Alpe Sücka and donate the proceeds to the Schaan community as a contribution to the building of the church. On December 16, 1886, the second citizens' meeting took place in Triesenberg on the purchase of Alpe Sücka and the simultaneous introduction of a common alpine farm, which was now accepted by the 206 voters (153 yes; 8 no; 8 abstentions and 36 did not appear).
On March 3, 1887, the Alpe Sücka was auctioned off to the highest bidder in the state parliament hall in Vaduz, and the Triesenberg community was awarded 36,320 guilders . One condition of the auction was that the individual farming (individual dairy ) that had been used up until then, which was very laborious, was merged into joint management (so-called D Zämaschüttati ). The common alpine economy was introduced in 1882 on Bergli, in 1888 on the Alps Sücka / Bargella and Älple and in 1890 in Malbun / Turna.
From 1888 to 1890 the stable and the spa house were rebuilt or renewed by the community of Triesenberg, the dairy remained on the ground floor of the spa house. The Kurhaus has been leased since then and is now operated as the Sücka mountain inn . In 1913 the stables were renovated and enlarged in 1938/1939, and a dairy hut with dairy and alpine apartment was built.
In 1960 the first electric milking system was put into operation. In 1975 a milking parlor - sleeping and living wagon "uf dr Böda" was purchased. The dairy was put back into operation in 1982 after extensive renovations.
location
The Sücka Alp is located in at the ostexponierten side of the upper part of the Sami Natales . The Alpe Steg is partially opposite the Alpe . The Alpe is bounded to the west by the Kulm, to the south by the Alpelti and north by Silum and Bargälla.
Sports
hike
Via Alpina
The Via Alpina , a cross-border long-distance hiking trail with five partial trails, leads through the entire Alps . The route also runs through the Rätikon and over the Alpe Sücka.
The red trail of Via Alpina runs in seven stages through the Rätikon and stage R57 coming from the Gafadurahütte (Garsellikopf, 2052 m) leads to Alpe Sücka and from there (stage R58) to the Pfälzerhütte .
The Via Alpina Green Path with 14 stages begins at the Berggasthaus Sücka and leads via Gaflei to Vaduz and via Central Switzerland into the Bernese Oberland and can be seen as a shortcut within the Via Alpina Red Path.
Short hikes
Various short hikes to day tours are possible from Sücka, for example:
- to Silum via the Kulm (about 1 ½ hours)
- Valüna / Valünabach (approx. 2 ½ hours)
- Plattaspitz (about 3 hours)
- through the Samina valley to Amerlügen (approx. 4 ½ hours)
- Plattaspitz / Alpspitz / Fürstensteig (about 5 hours)
- Pfälzerhütte (approx. 5 ½ hours)
- Malbun / Schönberg (about 6 hours)
- Rappenstein (about 6 ½ and 7 hours, only for experienced hikers)
winter
A toboggan run is being prepared by the Berggasthaus Sücka . This is suitable for families.
Trivia
The Alpe Sücka is the center of the forecast from Sückacheris . This is said to have been a dishonest and gambling addicted herd .
literature
- Municipality of Triesenberg (Ed.): Triesenberg. Masescha-Gaflei-Silum-Steg-Sücka-Malbun. The Walser Community in the Principality of Liechtenstein , Verlagdruckerei, Vaduz 1978.
Web links
- Website of the Triesenberg community
- Herbert Hilbe: Sücka. In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein . December 31, 2011 .
- Hiking tours from Alpe Sücka.
Individual evidence
- ↑ In 1928 128, 1984: 124, 2004: 103 dairy cows with cheese were summered. Since 1997, buoyancy has been set at 80 cattle units. In addition, pigs are repeatedly summered (2004: 15).
- ↑ a b c Alpe Sücka , website: Alpgenossenschaft Triesenberg.
- ↑ a b wofr: History , website: Alpgenossenschaft Triesenberg, article from February 22, 2019.
- ↑ a b history , website: Berggasthaus Sücka.
- ↑ Around 1600 Düraboda is called a stately alp. According to the land register of 1509/17, Düraboda had to give up four pounds of lard and one cheese as bird whey to the rulers.
- ↑ See rent office calculation from 1681.
- ^ Cornelia Hermann: The art monuments of the Principality of Liechtenstein. The Oberland. 2007, p. 354.
- ↑ Herbert Hilbe: Sücka. In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein . December 31, 2011 ..
Coordinates: 47 ° 7 ' N , 9 ° 34' E ; CH1903: seven hundred and sixty-one thousand three hundred and fifty-three / 220556