Silleren
The Silleren in the area of the municipality of Adelboden is one of the largest Alps in the Bernese Oberland . Your area is an important tourist area for Adelboden in summer and winter.
history
The Silleren is already mentioned in a document in the late Middle Ages, 200 years before Adelboden was first mentioned. On September 24, 1290 the brothers Arnold and Walter, Free von Wädiswil, gave Walter's wife Bertha von Ried the cheeses and goats of the Alpe Silleron for life. The alp must have been cleared and used as pasture for cattle back then. Slate is quarried in the 17th century, and the Silleren has often donated wood for charitable buildings.
Alpine farming
The Alp is divided into Vorderesilleren on the southeast side and Hintersilleren on the northwest side of a northeastern extension of the Lavey ridge . It lies at an altitude of 1480 to 2200 m above sea level. The 467 hectares are divided into 387 hectares of pasture land, 70 hectares of forest pasture and 10 hectares of wild hay.
Silleren is a cooperative alp with twelve Sennten , five in Frontsilleren and seven in Hintersilleren, the mostly simple buildings of which partly date from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Sennten all have plenty of their own water, the energy is supplied partly by solar cells , partly by diesel generators . The Alps are bumped from mid-June to mid-September, 340 bumps over 77 days or the equivalent of 261 normal bumps.
The milk is processed into Berner Alpkäse AOC and Hobelkäse AOC as well as Alpmutschli, whereby some of the cheeses already reached top ranks at the Berner Alpkäsemämmeung. Cheese is often made entirely by hand, mostly with a cheese kettle on an open or closed fire pit with wood burning. The cheese is sold to regular private customers or locally in Adelboden.
tourism
The Silleren has been developed for tourism since 1990 by the Silleren Railway from Adelboden to Sillerenbühl .
In summer it is a popular hiking area with mostly easy mountain hikes. The attractions include a signposted flower path, the Vogellisi path with modern art by local artists and scooter rides with specially designed mountain models from Sillerenbühl.
In winter, the Silleren is a popular ski area with easy and intermediate slopes. There are connections to the Chuenisbärgli and the Hahnenmoos area. Until 1990, the skiers were taken to Sillerenbühl by bus.
literature
- Ernst Roth and Beat Straubhaar: z'Bärg im Frutigland , pp. 336–362. <Right
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bärtschi, Adelboden. From the history of a mountain community , Bern, 1934, chapter From the «common mountains»
Web links
Coordinates: 46 ° 28 ′ 7 " N , 7 ° 30 ′ 46" E ; CH1903: 605694 / one hundred and forty-six thousand three hundred sixty-eight