Perforated mats

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Valais (VS)

District :

Visp

Municipal municipality :

St. Niklaus VS

Postal code :

3924

Coordinates :

628 787 / 115035 coordinates: 46 ° 11 '10 " N , 7 ° 48' 41" O ; CH1903: 628 787 / 115035

Height :

1070 m above sea level M.

Website:

www.st-niklaus.ch

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Lochmatten ( Valais German Lochmattä ) is a hamlet in the municipality of St. Niklaus (Valais German Zaniglas ) in the Valais district of Visp . Many well-known and great mountain guide pioneers emerged from the Lochmatter family , whose family name comes from the hamlet of Lochmatten in St. Niklaus.

geography

The hamlet of Lochmatten is located at 1070 m above sea level. M. north of St. Niklaus Dorf ( 1120 m above sea level , Valais German Zaniglas ) on the right bank of the Vispe , with today's canton main road 213 running south towards Zermatt and Grächen and north towards Visp through the middle of the hamlet Lochmatten . In the south the hamlet is separated from the hamlet of Riedmatten by the Riedbach . In the north the hamlet of Lochmatten borders on the hamlet of Steg and in the east on the hamlets of Wichel and Rossen .

archeology

1891 were in the perforated mats at an altitude of 1098 m above sea level. M. discovered twenty stone slab graves from the Neolithic . A grave could even be opened under one of the stone slabs, which contained a stone beaker six cm high and two bracelets.

family name

The family name Lochmatter comes from the hamlet of Lochmatten in St. Niklaus. The oldest known representative of the Lochmatter family is Anton Lochmatter , who in 1505 acquired the citizenship rights from Visp for £ 10 .

Many well-known mountain guide pioneers emerged from the Lochmatter family, who provided the first mountain guides in their home town of St. Niklaus, who were great innovators in mountaineering and who, in the first two generations, had a decisive influence on mountain guides throughout the world during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Attractions

literature

Christian Imboden: Mountains: job, calling, fate . Rotten Verlag, Visp 2013, ISBN 3-907624-48-3 .
“Pro Nikolai” foundation: place and field names St. Niklaus - Herbriggen - Gasenried . Rotten Verlag, St. Niklaus 2017, ISBN 978-3-906118-64-2 .

Web links

Photo from the hamlet of Lochmatten , accessed on October 6, 2017.

Individual evidence

↑ Christian Imboden, Berge: Beruf, Berufung, Schicksal , Rotten Verlag, Visp, 2013, page 23 f.
↑ Walther Staub: About the spread of "Heidengräbern" at the exit of the Vispertal and the Turtmann valley in Valais , in the annual report of the Swiss Society for Prehistory (Société suisse de préhistoire) , Volume 18, 1926, page 150 f.
^ Christian Imboden, Berge: Beruf, Berufung, Schicksal , Rotten Verlag, Visp, 2013, page 73.
^ Geoffrey Winthrop Young , Mountains of the World, 1949, 201.
↑ Christian Imboden, Berge: Beruf, Berufung, Schicksal , Rotten Verlag, Visp, 2013.

[1] Christian Imboden, Berge: Beruf, Berufung, Schicksal , Rotten Verlag, Visp, 2013, page 23 f.

[2] Walther Staub: About the spread of "Heidengräbern" at the exit of the Vispertal and the Turtmann valley in Valais , in the annual report of the Swiss Society for Prehistory (Société suisse de préhistoire) , Volume 18, 1926, page 150 f.

[3] Christian Imboden, Berge: Beruf, Berufung, Schicksal , Rotten Verlag, Visp, 2013, page 73.

[4] Geoffrey Winthrop Young , Mountains of the World, 1949, 201.

[5] Christian Imboden, Berge: Beruf, Berufung, Schicksal , Rotten Verlag, Visp, 2013.