Via Suvorov

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Equestrian statue of the Gotthard Pass
Via Suworow - mule track at the Gotthard Pass summit

The Via Suworow is a Swiss cultural hiking trail that follows the historical footsteps of the Russian general Suworow during his campaign in autumn 1799 across the Swiss Alps . The Via Suworow leads in eleven stages from Airolo over four Alpine passes to Ilanz . Via Suworow was opened in June 2011.

Geography and route

Via Suvorov crosses the valleys Leventina , Urserental , Reuss Valley , Schächental , Muotatal , Klöntal , Sernftal , Val da Pigniu , Vorderrheintal km over a length of about 170, follows the rivers Ticino , Gotthardreuss , Reuss , Linth , Sernf and Vorderrhein , leads through the Schöllenen Gorge and along the Klöntalersee . The total height differences are 8,000 meters uphill and 8,670 meters downhill. The route can be covered in around 56 hours.

The suggested routes are official, yellow (hiking trails) and white-red-white (mountain hiking trails) marked trails. Via Suworow is also signposted as Wanderland Route No. 55. Surefootedness is required over the Chinzigpass (stage 6) and the Panixerpass (stage 10).

The Via Suworow can be covered in 11 daily stages:

  • 1st stage: Airolo - Tremola mule track - Gotthard Pass ( 2106  m above sea level ), 8 km, 1000 m ascent, 80 m descent, 3 ½ hours.
  • 2nd stage: Gotthard Pass - Hospental - Andermatt , 13 km, 10 m ascent, 740 m descent, 3 ½ hours.
  • 3rd stage: Andermatt - Schöllenenschlucht - Wassen , 10 km, 280 m ascent, 800 m descent, 3 hours.
  • 4th stage: Wassen - Altdorf , 27 km, 720 m ascent, 1200 m descent, 8 hours.
  • 5th stage: Altdorf - «Suworowweg» - Bürglen - Biel-Kinzig, 10 km, 1250 m ascent, 100 m descent, 4 ½ hours.
  • 6th stage: Biel-Kinzig - Kinzigpass (or Chinzigpass) ( 2073  m above sea level ), - Muotathal , 14 km, 450 m ascent, 1470 m descent, 5 hours.
  • 7th stage: Muotathal - Pragelpass ( 1548  m above sea level ) - Behind Klöntal , 19 km, 1150 m ascent, 900 m descent, 6 hours.
  • 8th stage: Behind Klöntal - Klöntalersee - Glarus , 15 km, 320 m ascent, 700 m descent, 4 hours.
  • 9th stage: Glarus - Schwanden - Sernftal - Elm , 21 km, 780 m ascent, 280 m descent, 6 hours.
  • 10th stage: Elm - Panixerpass ( 2407  m above sea level ) - Pigniu, 22 km, 1700 m ascent, 1400 m descent, 8 ½ hours.
  • 11th stage: Pigniu - Ilanz, 12 km, 420 m ascent, 1000 m descent, 4 hours.

Well-trained hikers can tackle an extended variant with the following stages in ten days (approx. 280 km):

ViaStoria cultural trail

Along Via Suworow there are many objects with memorial plaques that commemorate the legendary Alpine March and are being researched by ViaStoria . There are Suworow memorial plaques on the houses in which the general stayed, on the pass crossings (Kinzig, Pragel, Panixer, Suworowstein in der Tremola, equestrian statue from 1999 on the Gotthard pass height), the Russian monument from 1898 in the Schöllenen, the one to the victorious Battle of the Devil's Bridge , as well as the monumental Suvorov soldiers at the dam of the Panixersee .

Historical traces of Suvorov

  • Suworowhaus Hospental

  • Suworowhaus, Andermatt Valley Museum

  • Memorial plaque restaurant Teufelsbrücke

  • Suvorov Monument Schöllenen Gorge

  • Suworowhaus Altdorf

  • Suworowhaus Glarus

  • Suworowhaus Elm

  • Panixer Pass memorial plaque

  • Panixer Pass memorial plaque: Alp Ranasca

  • Suworowhaus Pigniu / Panix

  • Suworowhaus Ilanz

Historic ways

The historical traffic routes are protected with the inventory of historic traffic routes of Switzerland (IVS) in order to preserve them for future generations.

  • Tremola above Airolo

  • Mule track bridge in front of the Gotthard pass height

  • Cappella dei Morti

  • Gotthard Post 2013

  • St. Karl Chapel, Hospental

  • Devil's Bridge in the Schöllenen Gorge

  • Häderlis bridge in front of Göschenen

  • Customs bridge and customs gate in Göschenen

  • Kinzig Pass

  • Pragel Pass

  • Panixerpass north side

  • Panixer Pass south side

history

During the Second Coalition War , Russian troops under General Field Marshal Suvorov crossed Switzerland in September and October 1799. Their route led them over six passes from south to north. The exhausting route led over 280 km and was made more difficult by various circumstances: rain in the Leventina, snow on the Panixer, heavy luggage and inadequate footwear, bad paths, destroyed bridges and constantly flaring up fighting.

The 22,000 Russian soldiers were on the road for 28 days. The course of the campaign against a numerically overpowering French army forced Suvorov to follow this exhausting, complicated route. The planned unification of the two Russian armies was no longer possible after Austria had left the coalition and the Russian army under Korsakov had been defeated in Zurich .

The only salvation left was a retreat across the Alps. This met with great interest and echo in Russia, which is also reflected in the atlas Suworow and continues to this day. On the occasion of his state visit to Switzerland, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev visited the Suvorov memorial on September 22, 2009.

For this forced march, which was associated with great human and material losses - which also affected the Swiss population living along the route through the contributions and requisitions - Suvorov was later awarded the highest military degree of "Generalissimo" by Tsar Paul I.

Stages (Suvorov's overnight accommodation), pass crossings

Suvorov's route

Operation and calendar days September 1799

  • 0. Tavern 15.
  • 1. Bellinzona 21. (La Cervica hostel, Piazza Nosetto)
  • 2. Giornico 22nd (with Giovanni Rocco von Mentlen, Piazza San Rocco)
  • 3. Faido 23. (Capuchin Monastery)
  • 4. Gotthard Pass 24.
  • 4. Hospental 24. (Gasthaus «Ochsen», today «St. Gotthard»)
  • 5. Andermatt 25. (Adelbertenhaus, today Valley Museum)
  • 5. Schöllenen Gorge 25.
  • 6. Altdorf 26. (Haus Jauch)
  • 7. Kinzigpass 27. (Bivouac at the pass)
  • 8 + 9. Muotathal 28-30. (St. Josef Women's Monastery)
  • 10. Pragelpass 30. (Alpine hut on Pragelpass)

Operation and calendar days October 1799

  • 11. Riedern 1./2. (Suworowhaus, Löntschbrücke)
  • 12-14. Netstal / Glarus 2nd - 4th (Suworowhäuschen between Netstal and Glarus)
  • 15. Elm 5. (House of the deceased Governor Friday)
  • 16. Panixer Pass 6.
  • 17th Pigniu 6th + 7th
  • 17. Ilanz 7.
  • 18.-20. Chur 8-10
  • St. Luzisteig, Feldkirch , Lindau 11. – 30.

literature

  • Carl von Clausewitz : The campaigns of 1799 in Italy and Switzerland , volume 2. Verlag Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin 1834.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wanderland 55 Via Suworow
  2. ↑ Swiss Cultural Routes: Travel description Via Suworow (PDF; 3.8 MB)
  3. ↑ NZZ of June 26, 2009 - Along the “Generalissimus Route” through Switzerland
  4. ↑ Medvedev on Suvorov's trail. In: NZZ. September 22, 2009, accessed December 2, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Castle Association Untervaz: Suworow (PDF; 939 kB)
  6. ^ The campaigns of 1799 in Italy and Switzerland - Carl von Clausewitz - Google Books
  7. ↑ Bulletin No. 1: 1799 Gotthard, Kinzig, Pragel, Panixer