Via Stockalper

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Via Stockalper 1677, Simplon Pass
Stockalperweg Simplon Pass

The Via Stockalper (also Stockalperweg called) is a Swiss Culture Trail , which on that of Kaspar Stockalper developed in the 17th century Alps - transit route from Brig ( 720  m ) over the Simplon Pass ( 2006  m ) to Gondo ( 855  m leads). The mule track over the Simplon Pass is valid according to the inventory of historic routes in Switzerland (IVS) as a historical traffic route of national importance.

geography

The Simplon Pass is one of the lowest-lying crossings of the central alpine massif.

The Via Stockalper runs for 30 km through the Tafernatal, the Saltina and Gondo gorges and follows the Saltina , Chrummbach and Doveria rivers . The route is usually covered in three daily stages (difficulty in brackets according to the SAC hiking scale ):

  • 1st hiking day: Brig – Schallberg-Grund-Simplonpass, 12 km, 1'550 m ascent, 200 m descent, 6 hours
  • Day 2: Simplon Pass - Simplon Dorf (T1), 10 km, 540 m descent, 3 hours
  • 3rd hiking day: Simplon Dorf – Gabi (T1-2) –Gondo (T2), 9 km, 620 m descent, 3 hours. Alternative via Zwischenbergtal: Gabi-Furggu (T2) - Zwischbergen (T2-3) -Gondo (T2-3), 12 km, 530 m ascent, 1150 m descent, 7 hours ago

Return to Brig by post bus on the Simplon road via the Simplon Pass or via Iselle and by train through the Simplon tunnel. There are overnight accommodations available in the stage towns.

history

Documented first traces of settlement on the Simplon Pass go back 9,000 years. The medieval mule track across the Simplon, which experienced its first boom as early as the 13th century, was expanded in the 17th century by Kaspar von Stockalper into a secure trade connection in politically troubled times. After his political overthrow, however, the constantly necessary upkeep largely ceased and the previously good transport organization was noticeably falling apart. As a result, the trade route lost its temporary national importance under Stockalper to other Alpine passes. From 1801 to 1805 Napoleon had the first drivable road in the Alps built over the Simplon Pass as a military transit axis for artillery with complex engineering structures. This street was also taken over by the newly formed canton of Valais in the 19th century as a cantonal road. Apart from the asphalting of the roadway, the Napoleonic road was only slightly changed at that time. In the 1960s, when the national road was built, the alignment of the Napoleonic road was largely taken over. Therefore, only a few sections of the latter have survived today (especially the larger bridges), where the modern road runs in tunnels and galleries and intersects the curves of the earlier road.

The Stockalperweg, which has not even been used locally since 1800, disintegrated in many places - especially where it ran parallel to Napoleon-Strasse, was buried over time by landslide material or uses along the way were abandoned, such as in the Zwischenbergental and in the Tafernatobel with the formerly more important former permanent settlement «Grund». The houses built by Stockalper along the path named after him have largely been preserved. In the 1990s it was reactivated as a cultural hiking route.

Places and sights on Via Stockalper

The objects are signposted with gray information boards from the Ecomuseum Simplon on the hiking trail.

Brig – Simplon Pass objects

1. Altes Stockalperhaus, Alte Simplonstrasse ⊙ 2. Antoniusspital ⊙ 3. Antonius Chapel ⊙ 4. Metziltenturm ⊙ 5. «Klosterbogen», connects Ursuline Church with Metziltenturm ⊙ 6. Chapel of St. Anthony of Padua in Lingwurm ⊙ 7. Stadel im Brei ⊙ 8. Stockalperweg near Gfalte Forest ⊙ 9. Föhrenwald near Chalchofen ⊙ 10. Former “Zer Taferna” inn ⊙ 11. “Auf der Sust” ⊙ 12. Simplonadler ⊙

  • 1. Old Stockalperhaus

  • 3. Antonius Chapel and Hospital

  • 11. "On the Sust"

  • 12. Simplon eagle

  • Stockalperweg Simplon Pass

Objects Simplonpass – Gabi

1. « Alter Spittel » in Gampisch ⊙ 2. Barralhaus in Gampisch ⊙ 3. Nideralp ⊙ 4. Shelter No. VII in Engiloch ⊙ 5. Engiloch military fortifications ⊙ 6. Glacier pot at Engiloch ⊙ 7. Alte Sust below Engi ⊙ 8. Maschihüs ⊙ 9. «Ägerbrigga» ⊙ 10. Egga ⊙ 11. Rossbodensturz (glacier fall ) ⊙ 12. Chluisä ⊙

  • 1. "Alter Spittel" in Gampisch

  • 2. Barralhaus in Gampisch

  • 4. Shelter No. VII in Engiloch

  • 7. Alte Sust below the Engi

  • 9. «Ägerbrigga» on Napoleon Street

Objects Gabi - Gondo Gorge

1. ruins of the chapel in Undru Gstei ⊙ 2. Double house in Gschoru Erb ⊙ 3. ruin in the Äbi ⊙ 4. lime kiln in the Gondo gorge ⊙ 5. "Alte Kaserne" ⊙

  • Ruin of the chapel in Undru Gstei

  • Double house in the Gschoru Erb

  • Ruin in the Äbi 1676

  • 4. Lime kiln in the Gondo gorge

  • "Old Barracks"

6. Ponte Alto ( "Hohstäg") ⊙ 7. Casermettabrücke and "Casermetta" ⊙ 8. Fort Gondo ⊙ 9. The "Grand Gallery" of Napoleonstrasse ⊙ 10. Frascinodibrücke ⊙ 11. "Pont des Sapins" ⊙ 12 Stockalperturm Gondo ⊙

  • 6. Ponte Alto ("Hohstäg")

  • 7. Casermetta Bridge

  • 8. Fort Gondo

  • 11. "Pont des Sapins"

  • 12. Stockalperturm Gondo

Ecomuseum Simplon Dorf

Ecomuseum "Old Inn"

The Ecomuseum "Alter Gasthof" in Simplon Dorf shows the history of the traffic routes over the Simplon. The "Ecomuseum Simplon" project was the result of a compromise between the municipality of Simplon VS and the inventory of historic traffic routes in Switzerland (lVS) and led to the partially interrupted mule track from Brig over the Simplon Pass to Gondo being renovated and upgraded for tourism. The sponsor of the project is the "Ecomuseum Simplon - Museums and Passpaths" foundation founded in 1991 in the Stockalper Castle in Brig. The foundation initiated the renovation of the “Old Inn” in Simplon Dorf and the rehabilitation of the mule track over the Simplon Pass, the “Stockalperweg”.

literature

  • Pierre Crotti: First traces of prehistory on the Simplon Pass. In: Paola DiMaio, Patricia Meyer (Ed.): First traces of humans in the Simplon-Albrun region. Turin 2007, pp. 12-15.

Web links

Commons : Via Stockalper  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wanderland 90 Via Stockalper
  2. ↑ IVS documentation Canton Valais 1.2 VS: Brig / Glis – Gondo (–Domodossola); Simplonpass ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 4.2 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dav0.bgdi.admin.ch
  3. ↑ Property on Stockalperweg: Gabi – Zwischenbergen – Gondo (PDF; 14.7 MB)
  4. ↑ Objects on the Stockalperweg: Brig – Simplon Pass (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  5. ↑ Objects on the Stockalperweg: Simplonpass – Gabi (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  6. ↑ Objects on Stockalperweg: Gabi – Gondo (PDF; 460 kB)