Schlappiner yoke

Schlappiner yoke
	Schlappiner yoke
Pass height	2201 m
expansion	Mule track
Mountains	Eastern Alps
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Coordinates , ( CH )	46 ° 55 '30 " N , 9 ° 54' 29" O ( 788 047 / 200060 ) coordinates: 46 ° 55 '30 " N , 9 ° 54' 29" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and eighty-eight thousand and forty-seven / 200060

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The Schlappiner Joch is 2201 m above sea level. M. high mountain pass between Vorarlberg and Graubünden .

Surname

Schlappin is derived from the Romansh stolppin . This means to hit . What is meant is that cattle driven over the pass (yoke) are driven with sticks. Joch in the sense of Italian forca means mountain pass (a name with Rhaeto-Romanic roots).

geography

The transition lies between the places Gargellen in Vorarlberg in Austria and Schlappin in Graubünden in Switzerland . At the same time, the pass between Madrisahorn and Rotbühelspitze is the border point between the Rätikon and Silvretta mountain groups .

history

Lance tips from the Bronze Age and ax-like tools that served as weapons, so-called paal sticks , were found on the Schlappiner Joch . They make it clear that this pass was used as a connection between the Montafon and Graubünden thousands of years ago.

The Prättigau and the Montafon were jointly under the rule of the Habsburgs from 1477 to 1649 . In the course of the Prättigau uprising in the Thirty Years' War , 800 imperial soldiers under Colonel Erhard Brion crossed the Schlappiner yoke from Montafon in 1621 ("Robbing, burning, murdering. The child was not spared in the womb"). This was followed by mutual raids over the yoke, the last of which was an incursion by the Prättigau people into the Montafon in 1622.

During the First and Second Coalition Wars in 1796 and 1799, respectively, Montafon rifle associations - 1799 under Schruns Landammann Johann Josef Batlogg (1751–1800) - fought off French troops who wanted to invade Montafon from Graubünden at the Schlappiner Joch.

During the Second World War , the Schlappin lock was built on the Swiss side after 1940 south of Schlappin , as an infantry attack over the yoke was believed to be possible. Four machine gun positions were created in rock caverns , which were abandoned as part of the Army 95 concept .

A road construction project in 1970 over the Schlappiner Joch, which was supposed to connect the communities of St. Gallenkirch in Montafon and Klosters-Serneus in the Prättigau-Davos district, failed due to political will on both sides.

Via Valtellina

For centuries, the pass crossing was part of what is now called Via Valtellina , which in a court decision in 1779 was even referred to as the “main road”. The much-used connection between Vorarlberg and Northern Italy was the shortest route from Lake Constance to Lake Como and on to Milan .

Many goods and over a thousand head of cattle were on the mule track from Montafon to Prättigau every year . The wine came from the Valtellina on heavily laden sautees through the Puschlav and the Engadine to Klosters in Prättigau and over the Schlappiner Joch into the valley and on to the Lake Constance area.

This route played an important role in cross-border trade until especially from 1512 to 1797, when the Three Leagues ruled the Valtellina.

literature

Manfred Hunziker: Ringelspitz / Arosa / Rätikon , Alpine Touren / Bündner Alpen , Verlag des SAC 2010, ISBN 978-3-85902-313-0 , p. 686.

Web links

Commons : Schlappiner Joch - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Via Valtellina - diversity of alpine culture

Individual evidence

^ Message from Werner Vogt , October 29, 2019.
↑ Heinrich Zschokke. History of the free state of the three leagues in high Rhaetia. 2nd edition. Orell, Füßli. Zurich 1817. page 266
↑ ^a ^b Helmut Tiefenthaler: Ways into the past in Vorarlberg - hikes and walks , Route 30 A day on the Via Valtellina, page 149, Tyrolia Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-7022-2645-1 .
↑ Description of the blocking point at the Crestawald Fortress Museum (accessed on September 19, 2012).
↑ Hansjürg Gredig-Steinmann: The Via Valtellina - on the trail of the wine merchants from Montafon to Valtellina ( Memento from August 18, 2002 in the Internet Archive )

[1] Message from Werner Vogt , October 29, 2019.

[2] Heinrich Zschokke. History of the free state of the three leagues in high Rhaetia. 2nd edition. Orell, Füßli. Zurich 1817. page 266

[Tiefenthaler-3] Helmut Tiefenthaler: Ways into the past in Vorarlberg - hikes and walks , Route 30 A day on the Via Valtellina, page 149, Tyrolia Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-7022-2645-1 .

[4] Description of the blocking point at the Crestawald Fortress Museum (accessed on September 19, 2012).

[5] Hansjürg Gredig-Steinmann: The Via Valtellina - on the trail of the wine merchants from Montafon to Valtellina ( Memento from August 18, 2002 in the Internet Archive )