Val Frisal

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Upper Val Frisal in summer

The Val Frisal is a valley in the Surselva . It is located in the municipality of Breil / Brigels in the canton of Graubünden and is traversed by the Flem .

Today, the name Val Frisal is primarily understood to mean the high mountain valley north-west of Breil / Brigels, essentially a longitudinal valley to the Vorderrheintal of around eight kilometers in length and an area of ​​around 21 km². In older sources, Val Frisal was used to refer to the entire 18-kilometer-long Flem river valley from Piz Frisal to the confluence with the Vorderrhein to Rueun , along with the high mountain valley, a transverse valley above Breil / Brigels, another longitudinal valley to Waltensburg / Vuorz over and comprised a breakthrough at Rueun. In contrast to the information in the Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland , the Flem is now regarded as a tributary of the Schmuèr .

The Val Frisal has an untouched high mountain landscape with glaciers, moraines , gravel fields , alluvial plains , fens and an old primeval spruce forest in the lower section towards Breil / Brigels. The vast plateau is in the federal inventory of fens of national importance and in the federal inventory of alluvial zones of national importance entered. In terms of landscape protection , the Swiss Confederation and local authorities have concluded a contract whereby the area will not be used for hydropower. The valley is grazed .

Facing northeast; the alluvial plain of Val Frisal in the high mountain landscape with only a few sheep pastures in the rock walls below the Limmerenpass

The long valley with the valley floor at around 1900  m above sea level. M. is surrounded by several three-thousand-meter peaks: in the south the chain of Brigelser Hörner ( 3251  m above sea level , Romansh Cavistrau Grond ), in the west the Piz Frisal ( 3291  m above sea level ) in the west and the Bifertenstock ( 3419  m above sea level) . M. ) in the northwest. In the northeast is the Kistenstöckli ( 2747  m above sea level ), at the foot of which the Bifertenhütte .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Peter Gsteiger, Mary Leibundgut, Antonio Righetti: First survey of alpine floodplains: Canton report results of the canton of Graubünden . Ed .: Federal Office for the Environment FOEN. Bern January 2006, p. 76 f . ( admin.ch [PDF; accessed on March 1, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b c Regiun Surselva (Ed.): Regionaler Richtplan Surselva, nature and landscape (2.200). 2014 update . Ilanz 2014, p. 22 ( gr.ch [PDF; accessed on March 1, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b Compensation for losses in the use of hydropower (VAEW): Object 2 - Val Frisal. In: map.geo.admin.ch. Federal Office of Topography, accessed on March 1, 2020 .
  4. ^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 2: Emmenholz - Kraialppass . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1904, p. 195, keyword Frisal (Val)   ( scan of the lexicon page ).
  5. ^ Federal inventory of fens of national importance: Object 1039 - Val Frisal. (PDF) In: data.geo.admin.ch. Federal Office for the Environment, 2017, accessed on March 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Federal inventory of floodplain areas of national importance: Object 1301 - Val Frisal. (PDF) In: data.geo.admin.ch. Federal Office for the Environment, 2017, accessed on March 1, 2020 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ 14 "  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 8"  E ; CH1903:  720 628  /  one hundred and eighty-four thousand eight hundred and sixty-three