Badus

Badus / Six Madun
	Northern flank of Piz Badus seen from the Pazolastock.
height	2928 m above sea level M.
location	Canton border Graubünden / Uri , Switzerland
Mountains	Gotthard Group in the Alps
Dominance	4.35 km → Gemsstock
Notch height	529 m ↓ Lolenpass
Coordinates	693840 / 164 204 coordinates: 46 ° 37 '21 " N , 8 ° 39' 50" O ; CH1903: 693840 / 164 204
Topo map	Swisstopo 1: 25000 sheet 1232 Oberalppass
First ascent	1785 by Placidus a Spescha

The Badus or Six Madun ( Rhaeto-Romanic Piz Badus ) is a mountain in the Gotthard Group in Switzerland . About its summit at 2928 m above sea level. M. leads the canton border between Graubünden and Uri . It is considered the local mountain of the Tujetsch community . Due to its geographical location, despite its moderate height, it is an excellent panoramic mountain with distant views of several large massifs in the Swiss Alps .

location

The mountain lies on the watershed between the Vorderrhein and the Reuss . To the west, the Six Madun drops steeply over 1000 meters to the Unteralp valley with Unteralpreuss . On its northeastern slope lies the Tomasee , which is considered the official source of the Rhine . The north and east flanks are drained by the Rein da Tuma , to the south of which is the Val Maighels through which the Rein da Maighels flows .

After the southeast upstream Piz Tagliola ( 2708 m above sea level. M. ) the mountain falls Lolenpass ( pass Tagliola , 2399 M. m above sea level. ), Who south of Schwarzenberg ( Piz Nair , 2764 m above sea level. M. flanked). In the north, the Six Madun merges into the Älpetligrat , the highest point of which is the Piz Tuma ( 2784 m above sea level ). This is followed by the Rossbodenstock ( 2836 m above sea level ) and the Pazolastock ( Piz Nurschalas , 2739 m above sea level ) before the ridge descends to the Oberalp Pass .

Surname

Badus comes from the Rhaeto-Romanic badar for “eighth”, “observe”, “stand crooked”, “lean”, which in turn comes from the Latin batare for “open”. From this the adjective badus was formed for "steep", "sloping".

Six Madun contains the Franco-Provençal word Six , which is more common in Valais and plural to sec , which means “dry”, originally for “dry slopes”. Madun is a derivative of the Surselvian word meida for "big haystack", which comes from the Latin word meta for "column".

First ascent

The first ascent took place in August 1785 by the two Padres Placidus a Spescha and Fintan Birchler, of whom only Placidus climbed to the summit. The monk Placidus a Spescha was an active alpinist who had made many first ascents in the Surselva .

Routes

From the Badushütte over the Tomasee and the northwest ridge to the summit, T4, at the summit easy block climbing (I)
From the Oberalp Pass via Pazolastock, Parlet and Rossbodenstock to the Badus summit, L, points I-II, in places without any path
From the Maighelshütte via Plauncas, Pt. 2676, Pt. 2807 to the northwest ridge and then to the summit, T5, passages I, no path, ask the hut owner!

photos

View from Badus towards Piz Borel and the Maighels Glacier
View from Badus towards Unteralptal and Andermatt
Badus summit cross with panorama

and display information about the image

360 ° panorama from Badus

Web links

Commons : Piz Badus - collection of images, videos and audio files

Local mountain of the Tujetsch community (PDF)
Badus on the ETHorama platform

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Tarcisi Hendry: Local mountain of the Tujetsch community. (PDF) In: Historia (s) e maletgs da Tujetsch. Retrieved February 10, 2015 .
↑ Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name . Small Rhaetian name book with two and a half thousand geographical names of Graubünden. Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur and Bottmingen / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7298-1047-2 , p. 65 .
↑ Ambros Widmer: The Tujetsch place and field names . Cumpariu en Tuatschina, Disentis 1977 ( article online (PDF) [accessed February 8, 2015]).
↑ Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name . Small Rhaetian name book with two and a half thousand geographical names of Graubünden. Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur and Bottmingen / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7298-1047-2 , p. 133 .
↑ Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name . Small Rhaetian name book with two and a half thousand geographical names of Graubünden. Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur and Bottmingen / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7298-1047-2 , p. 100 .

[hausberg-1] Tarcisi Hendry: Local mountain of the Tujetsch community. (PDF) In: Historia (s) e maletgs da Tujetsch. Retrieved February 10, 2015 .

[2] Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name . Small Rhaetian name book with two and a half thousand geographical names of Graubünden. Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur and Bottmingen / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7298-1047-2 , p. 65 .

[widmer-3] Ambros Widmer: The Tujetsch place and field names . Cumpariu en Tuatschina, Disentis 1977 ( article online (PDF) [accessed February 8, 2015]).

[4] Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name . Small Rhaetian name book with two and a half thousand geographical names of Graubünden. Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur and Bottmingen / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7298-1047-2 , p. 133 .

[5] Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name . Small Rhaetian name book with two and a half thousand geographical names of Graubünden. Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur and Bottmingen / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7298-1047-2 , p. 100 .