Punt Ota (Cinuos-chel-Brail)

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Punt Ota ( [ˌpʊntˈotɐ] ? / I , Rhaeto-Romanic in the idioms Putèr and Vallader for high bridge ) is in its current version a wooden bridge, reserved for slow and forest traffic, with underlaid steel shoring over the Ova da Punt Ota stream between the Cinuos fractions -chel and Brail and thus between the Engadine communities of S-chanf and Zernez . The bridge is a landmark for the border between the Upper and Lower Engadine , which runs to the left of the Inn along the Ova da Punt Ota . The border between the two idioms Putèr and Vallader is a few kilometers further down in the valley, below Brail. Audio file / audio sample

The original bridge was built in the 9th or 10th century. The valley section around the bridge was settled at the latest from the 13th century until at least the 18th century. The place at that time was called Pontalt (or also Puntauta , Punt auta or Pont alto , all also meaning high bridge ). At that time, Pontalt and the former border settlement of Juvelle below today's Martina were border stations in the Lower Engadine. At that time, Pontalt was the highest Engadine outpost of the Tyrolean rule .

The Punt Ota was rebuilt in 2008 as a wooden bridge with a steel structure underneath.

Associated with the name of the bridge or the former settlement are the names of the mountain Piz Punt Ota , the brook Ova Punt Ota , the pass crossing Fuorcla Punt Ota and the mountain lake Lej da Punt Ota .

  • View down the valley

  • The snow-covered Punt Ota, steel construction, approved for 9-ton trucks

  • The Punt Ota at 1650 m. ü. M. on the Jakobsweg Graubünden

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Commons : Punt Ota  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The bridge is actually not particularly high: the historian Jon Mathieu ( Bauern und Bären, 1987, Octopus Verlag, Chur ) calls the name a “proud name” . Instead of the construction- related interpretation, an interpretation of punt ota in the sense of the highest bridge in relation to the Habsburg part of the Engadine would also be possible.
  2. ↑ Private source ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 17, 2013. Better source desirable.
  3. ^ Homann map from 1732
  4. ^ Lexicon Peter Hug , accessed on January 17, 2013.
  5. ↑ retro bib , accessed on January 17, 2013.
  6. ↑ Dufour card
  7. ↑ Excerpt from the historical Homann map from 1732 , accessed on January 17, 2013.
  8. ↑ Document from Bishop Konrad von Chur , February 3, 1282, quoted in Johann von Müller (1805) The Stories of the Swiss Confederation, Part Four , Weidmann, Leipzig.

Coordinates: 46 ° 39 '1.3 "  N , 10 ° 1' 41.1"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred ninety-eight thousand one hundred ninety-two  /  169840