Fanes (plateau)

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View over the Fanes with (from left to right) Zehner and Neuner. In the foreground the so-called parliament of the marmots .
View over the Fanes to (from right to left) Neuner, Zehner and Heiligkreuzkofel.

The Fanes is a plateau in the South Tyrolean Dolomites . The by Karen laced Karst - pool expands at an altitude of about 2000  m slm out. The Limojoch ( 2174  m , Ju de Limo ) roughly divides the area into a northern and a southern half.

Location and surroundings

The Fanes is located in the south-east of South Tyrol in Italy . It belongs entirely to the municipality of Marebbe in Ladinien and is under protection in the Fanes-Senes-Braies Nature Park . It is roughly surrounded by mountains of the Fanes group of the Dolomites. These include the Neuner ( 2968  m , Sas dles Nü ) and the Antonispitze ( 2655  m , Piz de Sant'Antone ) in the north, the Zehner ( 3026  m , Sas dles Diesc ) and the Heiligkreuzkofel ( 2907  m , Sas dla Crusc ) in the northwest ), in the southwest of the Piz Lavarela ( 3055  m ) and the Piz Cunturines ( 3064  m , Piz dles Cunturines ), in the south the southern ( 2980  m ), the northern ( 2969  m ) and the Middle Fanisspitze ( 2889  m ) with the Cima Scotoni ( 2874  m ), in the southeast of the Monte Cavallo ( 2911  m ), the Monte Casale ( 2898  m ) and the Monte Castello ( 2817  m ), and in the east of the Col Bechei ( 2794  m ).

topography

The Fanes is characterized by a constant change between alpine lawn mats, towering rock formations , rock troughs with small bodies of water and the last little stone pine forests. Mountain streams drain the plateau northwards into the Rautal , south into the Abteital and east to the Valle del Boite .

Near the Fanes Hut there is a well-known rock formation called the Parliament of the Marmots . Here the dolomite rock steps in low steps to a mountain lake, giving the impression of a natural amphitheater .

Man and Fanes

The Fanes is the scene of numerous South Tyrolean legends that revolve around the kingdom of the Fanes .

The name of the plateau is attested as early as the 11th century as Uanna (approx. 1002-1004), from which the forms Pfannes (1434) and Fannes (1448) developed in the course of the 15th century .

In the north of the plateau, the Alm Klein-Fanes is used as pasture, a little to the southeast and separated by the Limojoch the Alm Groß-Fanes.

Climbers and hikers, mainly from the southwest to San Cassiano or from northern San Vigilio over Pederü ascend to Fanes, serve the Fanes Hut and Lavarella as bases.

literature

  • Peter Ortner , Christoph Mayr: South Tyrolean nature guide . Athesia, Bozen 1977, pp. 185-199
  • Peter Kübler: Fanes: History - Landscape - Alpinism . Karlsruhe 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816744-0-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hiking in South Tyrol: Fanesalm, on the Internet: https://www.diewanderer.it/fanesalm/
  2. ^ Egon Kühebacher : The place names of South Tyrol and their history . Volume 3, Athesia, Bozen 2000, ISBN 88-8266-018-4 . Pp. 62-63.

Coordinates: 46 ° 36 '24.8 "  N , 11 ° 59' 5.6"  E