Schäful
Schäful means the taking place annually on the last weekend of August, output of several hundred sheep in the area of the Great Aletsch Glacier .
The Sheep Path leads from the Inner Aletschji area , where the sheep grazed over the summer, to Belalp . The pasture area is delimited by the Great Aletsch Glacier and the Oberaletsch Glacier, including the gorge it left behind after his retreat . The pastures reach almost 3000 m above sea level. M.
After the sheep have been herded together on the days before the Schäful, the passage of the Oberaletsch Gorge on a path blasted into the rock and over a suspension bridge forms the first spectacular part of the path. After several hours, the sheep reach Belalp , finally via the stone serpentines of Steigglen . There the sheep shed in a Färrich takes place on the following day , where every Natischer breeder gets his animals back. The arrival of the sheep is accompanied by many spectators and a folk festival that follows.
In the past up to 2000 sheep were herded, in the last few years it was 700 to 800.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rolf Sterchi: “Schäful” The return of the sheep to Belalp - The Gorge , In: rolfsterchi.ch . August 26, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
- ↑ "Schäful" rave on the Belalp , 1815.ch (Walliser Bote), August 29, 2016 accessed on August 26 of 2019.
