Borteralp

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The Borteralp ( Valais German Bortäralpu ) is located on the left flank of the front Turtmann Valley in Upper Valais and comprises a pasture area between 1,800 and 2,600 m above sea level. M. It shows the three- tier farm typical of the region with Vorsass at 1850 m, the middle stafel zär Pletschu at 2180 m and Ängi at 2350 m as the uppermost pasture district. By Borteralpe flows of Borterbach which from the shared lake at 2,412 m above sea level. M. rises and flows into the Turtmänna .

On the Borteralp, cheese was made and alpine farming was carried out until the early 1970s. Thereafter, the cooperative operation was given up and the alpine pastures have since been maintained and managed by individual farmers by means of leasing .

geography

Alpine building of the uppermost stafel Ängi.

The Borteralp borders the Raftalp to the north . To the south, the Borteralp is bounded by a mountain ridge consisting of Meidspitz (2934 m above sea level), Rotighorn (2958 m above sea level), Tällispitze (2862 m above sea level) and Pletschhorn (2749 m above sea level). In an easterly direction, the Alpe ends on the cantonal road Gruben- Oberems and in a westerly direction on the Ochsenpass or Bella Tolla .

In contrast to many other alps in the Turtmann Valley, the Borteralp can only be reached by hiking trails . The starting point is the middle stafel in the neighboring Raftalpe, from where the three stafel of the Borteralpe can be reached. The middle stafel of the Raftalp can be reached on the one hand via the Höhenweg from Giebjini Oberstafel, on the other hand via the hiking trail from the Stafel Flesch through the Grossgiguferwald and also from the Stafel Gasalpji . The bottom tier of the Borteralpe ( Bortervorsass ) can also be reached directly from the Gasalpji without first having to climb up to the middle tier of the Raftalp.

Management

The Borteralpe is divided into three tables. These are small groups of houses which farmers used until the mid-1970s to summer their cattle. In the spring the farmers moved their cattle first from their hometown into the foothills of the Alps, then into the lower stafel , then into the middle stafel and in midsummer on the upper stafel and then backwards again.

Since the alpine operations on the Borteralp have been reduced since the 1970s, this only partially led to the gradual deterioration of the alpine buildings. In 1995, the Borter Alpine division made the fundamental decision to renovate the buildings. In 1999 a comprehensive renovation of the Borteralpe began. Thanks to financial support from the federal government , the canton of Valais , the municipality of Oberems , the Swiss Landscape Fund, Swiss Mountain Aid and Coop Switzerland , the renovation was completed in 2001.

proof

  1. ↑ a b Federal Office of Topography : Map view of the Borteralp area. In: www.map.geo.admin.ch. Federal Office of Topography, August 4, 2019, accessed on August 4, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Antonietti: Alpine renovation in the Turtmann Valley VS: The Alpine habitat is also a space for identity. In: Heimatschutz = patrimony. ETH Zurich, 2003, accessed on August 4, 2019 (German, French).

Coordinates: 46 ° 14 '50.6 "  N , 7 ° 41' 30.2"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred nineteen thousand five hundred and seventeen  /  121805