Badenoch

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Badenoch ( Scottish Gaelic Bàideanach , German  sunken land ) is a historic Scottish district in what is now the Highland administrative district .

geography

Badenoch covers about 1400 km² and is about 24 km from north to south and about 58 km from east to west. In the north, Badenoch is bordered by the Monadhliath Mountains , in the east by the Cairngorm Mountains and Braemar , in the south by Atholl and the Grampian Mountains , in the west by Lochaber . The historic capital of Badenoch is Kingussie . With the exception of the Spey Valley and its larger side valleys, Badenoch consists almost entirely of pristine mountain landscape, many of whose peaks reach a height of 1000 m. The extensive forests and heather areas around Ben Alder , Drum Jungs , Gaick and Feshie have extensive red deer populations . The largest lakes are Loch Laggan , Loch Insh and Loch Ericht . The river Spey and its innumerable tributaries supply Badenoch with water.

history

Black House in the Highland Folk Museum by Kingussie

In 1229, Badenoch became a unified territory for the first time with the newly created title of Lord of Badenoch . The title was initially held by the Comyn clan until around 1313 . From 1314 Badenoch fell to the Earl of Moray . From the 15th century Badenoch belonged to the Earldom of Huntly, who also carried the subordinate title Lord of Badenoch.

In the 19th century, the traditional Badenoch district was incorporated into Inverness-shire County . From 1975 to 1996, Badenoch and the neighboring region of Strathspey formed the joint administrative district of Badenoch and Strathspey . After an administrative reform at the end of the 1990s, Badenoch is now part of the Highland Council Area .

economy

Badenoch has very little industry. Most of the population lives in Kingussie and a few villages along the Spey. The Highland Main Line connects Badenoch with stations in Dalwhinnie , Newtonmore , Kingussie and Aviemore .

  • Large cairn at Kingussie on the edge of the Monadhliath Mountains

  • The river Spey

  • The Loch Insh

  • The Dunachtonstone , a stone on Loch Insh from the time of the Picts

literature

  • Conrad Malte-Brun, Jean-Jacques-Nicolas Huot: A system of universal geography . A description of all the parts of the world, on a new plan, according to the great natural divisions of the globe. tape 3 . Samuel Walker, Boston 1834, p. 1282 (English, books.google.com ).
  • Lachlan Shaw: The history of the province of Moray . J. Gran, 1827, pp. 6th ff . ( books.google.com - New Edition).
  • Badenoch . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 3 : Austria - Bisectrix . London 1910, p. 188 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).