Say about the Gottlobstein at the Carmennapass
The legend of the Gottlobstein at the Carmennapass comes from the Carmenna between Arosa and Tschiertschen .
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The Carmenna Pass used to be very important for summer traffic from Chur to Arosa. This path was significantly shorter than the ones over Ochsenalp and through Schanfigg , albeit much steeper and more difficult. At the top of the pass is a high, pointed boulder, the "Gottlobstein". It is not difficult to guess where he got this name from. When the Arosa Walsers had happily climbed the seven hours from Chur with a heavy load, they would park by this stone and rest with the exclamation "Praise God".
But it was good not to triumph too early, as an Arosa is said to have put down a grindstone that had been brought up with great effort at the Carmennastein. But as he straightened his back and wiped the sweat from his forehead, the beautiful round grindstone started rolling and rolled down the whole slope again and fell to pieces.
Another time a man from Arosa went out to Chur to buy supplies. He lived with his wife in the Ifang in Innerarosa. It was bad, wet weather on the long way home to the Carmenna Pass. He came with his burden as far as the Gottlobstein. There, however, he was overcome with great weariness and lay down with his head propped against the boulder. In the meantime, his wife was worried about him when he did not return home for so long. She decided to go up to him and help carry him. But she barely made any headway, a biting wind blew in her face. Then it started to snow and a thick fog passed. With all her effort she reached the Gottlobstein. There she too had to sit down exhausted and fell asleep. The following night both of them froze to death on the stone of God, she below, he above. The hens that the man had bought in Chur were in a basket and had survived the night. The basket had given them the warmth they needed, and they had even laid eggs. According to tradition, a very similar event is said to have taken place on the Upper Carmennastein between the Carmennahütte and the pass.
The Gottlobstein is not to be confused with the Gottlob in Welschtobel on the way to the Ramozhütte .
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- "Legend hike Arosa and surroundings" sign at the Carmenna Pass.
- Hans Danuser : Arosa place and field names including the Welschtobel and some areas near the border in neighboring communities, self-published Danuser, Arosa 2011, ISBN 3-905342-49-9 , pp. 59, 151.