Val d'Err

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Val d'Err with Alp d'Err, recorded by Pizza Grossa (July 2016)

The Val d'Err (from Rhaeto-Romanic val 'valley' and Celtic err 'snow' , i.e. 'snow valley') is a valley in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .

location

The approximately eight kilometer long Errtal lies at Piz d'Err in the Albula Alps and is traversed by the Ragn d'Err (Errbach), which leaves the valley in a narrow gorge and flows into the Gelgia at Tinizong . The Val d'Err borders on the north-eastern side of the valley on the federal hunting banned area around the Piz Ela .

Between Tinzenhorn and Piz Ela, the Pass d'Ela leads into Val Spadlatscha and on to Filisur and Alvaneu Bad in the Albula Valley , east of it the Fuorcla da Tschitta and Fuorcla Mulix into Val Mulix . One stage of the Graubünden Walser Trail, opened in 2010, leads through the Val d'Err.

history

Manganese ore was mined here until the end of World War II .

The Ragn d'Err has been a protected floodplain area of ​​national importance since 2001 .

In 2014, construction began one in the lower Talhälfte small hydro power plant of BKW Energie around 20 GWh annual electricity production.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name . Small Rhaetian name book with two and a half thousand geographical names of Graubünden. Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur and Bottmingen / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7298-1047-2 , p. 147 .
  2. ^ Julius Studer: Swiss place names. Zurich 1896, p. 192.
  3. ↑ Patricia Jegher: La mineras da Tinizong. In: Annalas da la Societad Retorumantscha , Volume 101 (1988), pp. 83-95.
  4. ^ AS 2001 1849
  5. ↑ BKW starts construction of a small hydropower plant in Tinizong. NZZ, June 30, 2014.

Coordinates: 46 ° 34 '40.8 "  N , 9 ° 40' 39.5"  E ; CH1903:  771607  /  160975