Seiser Alm

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View over the Seiser Alm to the Sassolungo Group
View over the Alpe di Siusi towards the Schlern
Compatsch: the largest settlement on the Alpe di Siusi

The Seiser Alm ( Italian Alpe di Siusi , Ladin Mont Sëuc ) is the largest high alpine pasture in Europe. It is located in the South Tyrolean Dolomites in Italy , around 20 km northeast of Bolzano and above the well-known tourist resorts of Seis am Schlern , Kastelruth and Ortisei in Val Gardena .

geography

View over the Seiser Alm to the opposite Geisler and thePuez out
The Seiser Alm seen from the Pizberg
The Seiser Alm cable car

The Alm has a size of 56 km², is located at an altitude of 1680  m slm to 2350  m slm , and is one of the largest closed high plateaus in the Alps . The Schlern , the Roterdspitze and the Rosszähne delimit the Alpe di Siusi to the southwest. The striking mountain range of the Sassolungo Group connects to the southeast . To the north, the Alpe di Siusi falls behind the peaks of Puflatsch and Pizberg towards Val Gardena . In the west, the terrain sinks over the upstream Schlern area towards Eisack Valley .

The settlement of the Alpe di Siusi is divided into two local zones: Compatsch 1850  m slm, which is heavily developed for tourism, on the far western edge of the plateau and Saltria 1680  m slm , which is 5 km east below the Plattkofel .

Parts of the alpine pasture in the south, together with large areas in the Schlern group and in the Rosengarten, are designated as the Schlern-Rosengarten Nature Park . There are also two protected biotopes, Col da Fil and Gran Paluch

From Seis am Schlern, access to Compatsch is possible with regular buses and a modern circulating gondola , which in turn is connected to the area around Castelrotto and Fiè via a bus service . Another gondola runs from Ortisei in Val Gardena . Regular buses from Monte Pana to Saltria are also used seasonally. Access to the Alpe di Siusi with private vehicles is only permitted in the evening and at night. The area is intensively developed for tourism.

history

The use of the Hochalm goes back a long way. Around 1600 Marx Parakeet von Wolkenstein describes the Alpe di Siusi as follows in his "Tyrolean Description of the Country":

" From the village of Castelreudt there is also the allerschonische and great alm, if you do not find the same in landt, and you are a teische meil [German mile] away from the village, called the Seysser Almb, then you get jarlichen in sumber in the 1,500 kie [cows] and 600 ogsen [oxen] have been preserved and not valued [not less than] in the 1,800 futer hey [loads of hay] and a number of today's zendten [hundred quintals] judge lard and cheese made. So with 400 heythillen [Heustädel] there should be stone and 100 kaserthillen [Schwaigen] and umb Jacobi [25. July] at 4 or 5 weeks at 4,000 man and women above leagues and arbeyten tain in hey and the kroffigist [strongest] and peste hey, as far as one finds in lands, is. "

summer

The Alpe di Siusi in summer

In summer, the area is ideal for hiking and mountain tours. In spring 2006, the Hans-and-Paula-Steger-Weg was completed. This path leads in an east-west direction from Kompatsch to Saltria and is designed with information boards that give insights into the landscape and culture of the Alpe di Siusi and South Tyrol.

winter

The Alpe di Siusi in winter

The winter sports area has 60 km of downhill pistes, mostly of easy and medium difficulty, numerous lifts and a fun park. In addition, a network of almost 60 km of trails is offered. Other winter sports that can be practiced on the Alpe di Siusi are tobogganing and ice skating . In addition, the Alpe di Siusi has two ski schools with more than 50 ski instructors for skiing, snowboarding and cross-country skiing courses.

Culture

In 2009 the Franziskuskirche was consecrated in the Kompatsch local area .

panorama

Panorama over the Alpe di Siusi from the Großer Rosszahn : on the left the Roterdspitze and the Schlern , in the center the Alpe di Siusi with the peaks of the Puflatsch and Pizberg, on the right the Langkofel (largely covered by the Plattkofel )

See also

literature

  • Franziska Baumann: Alpe di Siusi, Sciliar area. Kompass Wanderführer 5740. 3rd edition. 2013. ISBN 978-3-85026-395-5
  • Jul Bruno Laner: Seiser Alm Alpin: Development of a winter sports area in the Dolomites. Bolzano: Tappeiner 2017. ISBN 978-88-70738766
  • Wilhelm Lutz : The Alpe di Siusi. A picture of mountain farming. In: Yearbook of the Austrian Alpine Club, Volume 85, 1960, pp. 75–82.
  • Edgar Moroder: Alpe di Siusi - Mont de Sëuc . Book accompanying the field name map. Lia per Natura y Usanzes Urtijëi, Ortisei 2001, ISBN 88-86102-27-5

Web links

Commons : Seiser Alm  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Alpe di Siusi  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. Nikolaus Grass : From the legal history of the Alpe di Siusi . In: « Der Schlern » 60, 1986, pp. 293-314.
  2. Seiser Alm: Sciliar area

Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '  N , 11 ° 39'  E