Fellital
The Fellital is a right side valley of the Reuss near Gurtnellen in the canton of Uri .
The valley, which runs in a south-north direction, is around 8 km long and has an altitude difference of 1800 m. At the upper end of the valley, the Fellilücke leads to the Oberalp Pass , in the lower half of the valley the Pörtlilücke leads east into the Etzlital.
The Fellital is a federal hunting ban area . The Maderanertal -Fellital region has been included in the federal inventory of landscapes and natural monuments of national importance since 1977 . The Fellital has also been a cantonal nature reserve since 1992 .
The Treschhütte of the Swiss Alpine Club is located in the Fellital.
As part of the Second Coalition War , French troops (2 battalions and 8 grenadier companies) led by Claude-Jacques Lecourbe moved through the Fellital and across the Fellilücke in the direction of Andermatt where the Schöllenen started fighting on September 25, 1799 during a bypass maneuver from Gurtnellen came with Russian troops under General Alexander Wassiljewitsch Suvorov .
literature
- Fellithal. In: Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Second volume. Attinger, Neuenburg 1904, p. 87 f.
- National map of Switzerland 1: 50,000, sheet 256 Disentis / Mustér . Federal Office for Topography, Wabern 2015, ISBN 978-3-302-00256-9 .
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Coordinates: 46 ° 42 '25.9 " N , 8 ° 39' 37.7" E ; CH1903: six hundred ninety-three thousand four hundred and thirty-two / 173614
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1898, newspaper article about the Russian monument in the Schöllenen.
- ↑ Reinhold Günther: The campaign of the Lecourbe division in the Swiss high mountains 1799. Huber, Frauenfeld 1896, p. 122.