Diechtersmatt
Diechtersmatt is a district of the municipality of Giswil in the canton of Obwalden .
geography
Diechtersmatt is located on the south bank of the Sarnersee in the eastern part of the municipality of Giswil. The place is not an administratively or politically delimited unit from Giswil, so the boundaries are not precisely defined. In a narrower sense, Diechtersmatt consists of a closed built-up area. This has now grown together along Brünigstrasse with the southern district of Rudenz. The Giswil train station is in Diechtersmatt.
The Kleine Melchaa leaves the last narrow gorge of the Kleiner Melchtal east of Diechtersmatt and then flows through the middle of the district. Between 1936 and 1984 severe weather events in the Kleiner Melchtal resulted in floods in the Diechtersmatt settlement area five times. Even when the Alpine floods in 2005 , the Kleine Melchaa had become a torrent, and large parts of the settlement area were severely damaged. Therefore, the hydraulic engineering project Kleine Melchaa was started in 2011 to improve flood protection . The construction work, with a planned cost of 16 million francs, includes the construction of the Gorgen sediment collector and the relocation of the channel from the Gorgen area in a direct line to the Sarnersee. The Gorgen sediment collector has a wall around 12 meters high and over 100 in length with space for 70,000 m³ of debris and is being built east of the Diechtersmatt district. The construction work started in September 2011 and should be completed by 2015.
history
Diechtersmatt is located on the old trade route (Brünig route) from Lucerne over the Brünig Pass into the Bernese Oberland. A little north of Diechtersmatt is the customs house on Lake Sarnen, where the Alpnachstad ferry used to land. A customs post existed there until 1855. The customs house belongs to the municipality of Sachseln.
Attractions
The “ Schacherseppli Erlebnisweg ”, which was created in honor of the late yodeler Ruedi Rymann , begins and ends at Giswil train station in Diechtersmatt .
Transport links
Diechtersmatt is located on Brünigstrasse ( Hauptstrasse 4 ) between Sachseln and Lungern . The Giswil bypass tunnel has relieved Diechtersmatt from through traffic since 2004 . The Giswil station of the Zentralbahn provides a connection to the route to Lucerne and Meiringen. For the Brünigbahn, the cogwheel-supported route to Kaiserstuhl OW and on to Lungern and the Brünig Pass begins immediately south of Giswil station .
The Way of St. James from Stans runs through Diechtersmatt and over the Brünig Pass to Interlaken .
literature
- Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de géographie (editors): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 1: Aa - Emmengruppe . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1902, p. 613, keyword Diechtersmatt ( scan of the lexicon page ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Project with very big challenges, flood protection on the Kleine Melchaa in Sachseln and Giswil ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article in the ONZ Obwalden and Nidwalden newspaper from October 3, 2010
- ↑ Current projects, Kleine Melchaa information page on the flood protection website of the canton of Obwalden, accessed on May 12, 2014
- ↑ 3000 cubic meters of concrete for a wall Article in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung from April 28, 2012
- ↑ Historical and strange things - the history of our house , on the website of the Hotel Restaurant Zollhaus
- ^ Website of the Schacherseppli adventure trail
- ↑ Section from Flüeli-Ranft to Kaiserstuhl information page on Jakobsweg.ch, accessed on May 12, 2014
Coordinates: 46 ° 50 '17.7 " N , 8 ° 11' 14.2" E ; CH1903: 657,109 / 187729