Gondo Gorge

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Ruins of the Stockalper Tower at the western entrance to the Gondo Gorge. The year "1676" can be read on the lintel

The Gondo Gorge is a deep cut through which the Diveria flows between the hamlet of Gabi in the municipality of Simplon Dorf and Gondo in the Swiss canton of Valais .

geography

One of the old Napoleon bridges in the Gondo Gorge

The Gondo Gorge is approx. 5 km long. Its slopes are so steep that the gorge could not be crossed at the time of the mules . Instead, Gabi's mules marched over the Furggu (pass) into the Zwischenbergental and from there down to Gondo. Only by order of Napoleon was a road built over the Simplon Pass and through the Gondo Gorge in 1801–1805 .

At the western entrance to the Gondo Gorge there is a tower that was not completed by Kaspar Stockalper , the fortress in the Klus . The year “1676” is carved into a lintel of the ruin. The tower would have become a third transshipment point on the Säumerweg over the Simplon Pass, next to the old hospice and the Stockalper tower in Gondo. In the old barracks from Napoleon's time, a museum showing the history of the Simplon Pass has been set up. The eastern entrance to the Gondo Gorge was fortified by Fort Gondo during the First and Second World Wars . The Gondo Gorge can now be crossed on foot on the Stockalperweg .

The Stockalperweg in the Gondoschlucht. Right in the picture: the old barracks

Web links

Commons : Gondo Gorge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gondoschlucht on the map of the Federal Office of Topography , accessed on September 10, 2019.
  2. ↑ Furggupass on the map of the Federal Office of Topography , accessed on September 10, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c Hiking on the Simplon, guide to nature and culture. Guide to nature and culture. Edited by Klaus Anderegg. Rotten-Verlag, Visp 2008, ISBN 978-3-905756-31-9 (publication accompanying the “Ecomuseum Simplon”, Simplon-Dorf).
  4. ^ Fort Gondo Fortress Museum ( Memento from December 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). In: ecomuseumsimplon.ch, accessed on September 10, 2019.

Coordinates: 46 ° 11 '10.6 "  N , 8 ° 5' 29.8"  E ; CH1903:  650,415  /  115189