Pfitscher valley

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View from the Pfitscher Joch into the Pfitscher Valley
Pfitscher Tal in winter (aerial view, view from east to west)

The Pfitscher Valley (also Pfitschtal or Pfitsch , Italian : Val di Vizze ) is located in South Tyrol ( Italy ) and is a typical high valley in the Central Alps . It runs from the Sterzing Basin (946 m) in the Wipptal valley to the northeast over 20 kilometers into the Zillertal Alps . The Pfitscher Joch (2246 m) forms a transition on the north side to the Austrian Zamser Grund in the upper Zillertal . The Pfitscher Joch is not passable for motor vehicles, the valley can only be reached in this way from Sterzing.

The area of ​​the municipality of Pfitsch includes the entire Pfitscher valley. The largest settlement in the valley is the Wiesen fraction at the entrance to the valley. The Pfitscher Bach flows through the valley and flows into the Eisack south of Sterzing .

geology

The Pfitscher valley is a typical glacial than impressed Trogtal with pronounced trough shoulder and cut throat, especially on the orographic right side of the valley. The hanging valleys of the Burgumer and Großberg brooks flow from the left. The settlements are scattered on the alluvial cones of the side streams that cut through the valley flanks.

In historical times, a landslide below today's reservoir near Wöhr, when a huge mass of rock broke off on the orographic left side of the valley below the Überseilspitze and the Leitner Wall, caused a large lake to be dammed up, which originally probably went as far as the area of ​​today's St. Jacob was enough. According to a legend, the lake erupted in the night of March 18-19, 1080 and "pushed out" to the valley, causing severe devastation in the outer valley, which has already been populated. When this last outbreak actually occurred cannot be said with certainty. A severe thunderstorm probably caused this last outbreak. The strikingly flat and wide valley floor of the central Pfitscher valley represents the former subsoil of this lake.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The big ADAC Alpine Guide, 9th Edition, 1997, p 331
  2. ^ Mathias Oehlke: Report 1999 on geological surveys on sheet 175 Sterzing (PDF; 63 kB)
  3. ^ Board of Trustees for Technical Cultural Assets, Bozen: Wiesen power plant

Web links

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Coordinates: 46 ° 57 ′ 14 ″  N , 11 ° 33 ′ 15 ″  E