Binntal

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Binntal
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The Binntal - also Binnatal - is a valley in the southern part of the Goms district in the Swiss canton of Valais . The Binntal is a side valley of the Rhone Valley . The valley is almost congruent with the area of ​​the municipality of Binn , the main settlement is Schmidighischere . The economy is shaped by tourism and agriculture. A large part of the valley is in the federal inventory of landscapes and natural monuments in Switzerland. In 2005 about 200 people lived in the valley, spread over various hamlets.

history

Grave finds from the 5th century BC Chr. Suggest a Celtic settlement. The Albrun Pass was already an important passage to Italy in Roman times. In the 13th century, the Walsers moved to Italy via this pass. Until the road was built in 1936–1938, the narrow Twingi Gorge below Binn made it difficult to access the Binn Valley . The road only became safe for winter after the construction of the 1.9 km long tunnel through the rock head of the "Aebne Matte" in 1963/1964.

Waters

The Binna flows through the Binntal . There are several mountain lakes in the valley, including the Mässersee , Halsensee and Züesee . The largest lake is the Geisspfadsee on the Geisspfadpass .

Mineral finds

The Binntal, especially the Lengenbach mine located there , is a well-known site for minerals and their varieties . It is one of the ten most famous mineral discovery sites and type localities in the world and has been known since the 18th century. So far, a total of 165 minerals and 14 varieties have been detected there (as of 2019). Lengenbach is also considered a type locality for 44 minerals such as Baumhauerite , the Gabrielite named after the well-known Swiss mineral photographer and expert at Lengenbachminerals Walter Gabriel (* 1943) , the minerals hatchite and quadratite , which were previously only found in Lengenbach, and those named after its type locality and Lengenbachite also previously only found there .

So far, over 330 minerals and varieties, 288 of which are separate mineral types and 61 type locality minerals, have been discovered in the entire Binntal (as of 2019).

There are guided excursions into the mountains to find minerals. Two professional spotlights (crystal seekers) can still make a living from their work. The largest quartz crystal found in the Binn valley was found on the Turbhorn and is 75 cm tall.

tourism

In the Binntal a gentle tourism is cultivated. There are a few small hotels, holiday apartments and the Giessen campsite available to tourists. All hiking and mountain trails in the Binn Valley are around 150 km long. The so-called "Binntalhütte" of the Swiss Alpine Club SAC is located below the Albrun Pass . In 2002 the municipalities of Binn, Ernen and Grengiols started the "Binntal Landscape Park" project. Nine years later and expanded to include the municipalities of Bister, Blitzingen and Niederwald, the Binntal Landscape Park was definitely given the label “Regional Nature Park of National Importance” in September 2011. The "Landscape Park Binntal" borders directly on the Italian nature park Alpe Veglia and Alpe Devero in the south . The contiguous cross-border (I / CH) nature park (Binntal - Devero - Binntal) today offers an extensive supra-regional network of hiking trails.

literature

  • Walter Ruppen: The Binntal. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 221). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1992, ISBN 978-3-85782-221-6 .
  • Johannes Schwanz: The Binntal and its minerals (mineral guide through the Binntal), 1994, ISBN 978-3-9520657-0-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Lengenbach mineral discovery site in the Binnatal. Separately printed from the yearbook of the Natural History Museum of the City of Bern 1966-1968 . Harteveld Rare Books Ltd., Friborg, Switzerland 1968 ( epic.awi.de [PDF; 11.3  MB ; accessed on July 16, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Top 50 list of type localities (Most prolific type localities). In: mindat.org. Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Gabrielite . In: John W. Anthony, Richard A. Bideaux, Kenneth W. Bladh, Monte C. Nichols (Eds.): Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America . 2001 (English, handbookofmineralogy.org [PDF; 200  kB ; accessed on August 19, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Type locality quarry Lengenbach, Im Feld, Binntal, Canton Wallis, Switzerland (Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld (Imfeld; Im Feld; Feld), Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland). Description of the location and mineral list. In: mindat.org. Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Type locality Binntal, Canton Wallis, Switzerland (Binn ​​Valley, Valais, Switzerland). Description of the location and mineral list. In: mindat.org. Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  6. ^ Mechtenberg Landscape Park / Mechtenberg Landscape Park . In: Under the Open Sky / Under the Open Sky . De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston, ISBN 978-3-0346-1105-3 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783034611053.80 .
  7. ↑ A regional nature park. In: Landschaftspark-binntal.ch. Binntal Landscape Park, accessed on July 16, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Hikes in Binn. In: outdooractive.com. Outdooractive, accessed on July 16, 2019 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 22 ′ 0 "  N , 8 ° 11 ′ 30"  E ; CH1903:  657,948  /  135310