Welschtobel

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The Welschtobel, lower valley level, with parts of the Arosa Dolomites

The Welschtobel ( Romansh Igl Cuolm ) is a mountain valley in the inner Schanfigg in the canton of Graubünden / Switzerland . It lies between the peaks of the Pizza Naira - Aroser Rothorn - Schafrügg line and the Strela chain and connects the Aroser Valley with the Furcletta , below which the Ramozhütte of the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) is located.

description

Ramoz, the upper valley step with the SAC refuge and the funnel-shaped demolition against the actual ravine in the center of the picture

The seven kilometer long and 1315 hectare large Welschtobel has two valley steps. In the rear third of the valley, the Ramoz basin at the foot of the Aroser Rothorn forms the first, upper step. The Alp Ramoz is a source of rich pasture land, the right with moraine is provided and fall debris. It is bounded to the east by the wildly torn Guggernell ridge , which extends in a wide semi-arc from Spitzig Gretli over the Guggernell towards Furcletta. From the chain Aroser Rothorn – Älpliseehorn, which bounds it on the left, a number of high valley niches break out, from whose debris heaps the rocky ridges of the Älpliseehorn, the Erzhorn and the less rugged Aroser Rothorn grow. The Ramozhütte is located on the left-hand slope of this open valley background and facilitates ascents in the area.

The lower step - separated from Ramoz by a steep step called Schiliez ("Gottlob") - includes the actual gorge valley, which the Walsers who settled in Arosa called Tüfelschtälli (devil's valley) or ds bös Tälli because of its barren vegetation . It extends in a north-easterly direction to the confluence of the Alteinbach with its waterfalls. There the ravine flows into the debris-filled valley floor of the Isel .

geology

The Welschtobel is an isocline valley at the southeast end of the Arosa Dolomites . On the left side, east alpine dolomites and slate rise up to the ridge, on the right side of the valley in the front part of the trias dolomite and slate steeply to the Leidflue. The upper parts are dominated by verrucano , sandstone and slate, which are responsible for the rather gentle shapes and hollows. Finally, the depression of the uppermost valley step is covered with a lot of moraine material, whereas in the lower part of the Welschtobel wild gullies and smaller gorges erupting from both sides continuously shower the valley with rubble and debris. Despite these strongly erosive mountain forces, a pioneering plant world from below always manages to establish itself in this inhospitable terrain.

Development

Inner sandy bottom

Since 1889 there has been a well-developed hiking trail from the Isel over the outer and inner sandy soils via Schiliez to the Furcletta, the transition into the Albula valley ( called Chrüz by the Walsers , T2 ). The path initially leads along the extensive gravel field of the Welschtobelbach, before turning in a south-westerly direction into the long main valley flanked by steep slopes. There it climbs up the left-hand slope from the valley floor through spruce -, larch - and finally leg pine forest , mixed with birch trees . Repeatedly it is broken through by steep runs of rubble that break out of the slopes of the Schafrügg. In the area of ​​the so-called large Rüfe, the erosive situation has worsened in recent years to such an extent that a 30 meter long and one meter wide suspension bridge had to be built by volunteers in the summer of 2013. The wild opposite north-west face of the Leidflue lives up to the name of this mountain. From Ramoz, the path leads uphill to the left over a flat ridge towards the valley slope of the Furcletta, which it overcomes in a short, moderate incline southeast of the small Ramozsee.

Other routes lead from Ramoz as the Alpine Route over the Erzhornsattel to Schafälpli ( T4 ) and - no longer marked today - via Murterus-Leidluefurgga to Altein Tiefenberg ( T4 ).

history

Welschtobel with wafts of mist, seen from Murterus

Until the end of the 14th century, the two valley steps of the Welschtobel went historically separate ways. Ramoz was owned by the Barons von Vaz and the Counts of Toggenburg . Around 1450 it was added to the Inner Belfort Court, and in 1480 it passed to Alvaneu , who has remained until today. The Welschtobel in the narrower sense, i.e. the lower valley level, originally also belonged to the Barons of Vaz. After the founding of the Grand Court Araus (Arosa) at the beginning of the 14th century it was considered hereditary fief transferred the local Walser colony.

In 1481 the Arosa mountain farmers , who were then poor at the time, sold the Tüfelschtälli to their neighbors from the Albula valley for £ 25 . Since the Alvaneuer spoke Rhaeto-Romanic ( Welsch ) , the Walsers soon only called it the Welschtobel. At the end of 1938, this fact was one of the decisive factors in the fact that, when the land register was introduced in Arosa, the question of the territorial affiliation of the Welschtobel, which had been raised again, was definitely decided in favor of Alvaneu. The bilingual, historical background is still evident today in the striking change between German and Romanic field names such as armchairs, Gamschtälli, Val Mierta (Tottälli) or Schaftälli (Cuolm digl Stoffel). The Welschtobel or Alp Ramoz is still used today from Alvaneu as a meager Galtviehalp .

In 1879 ibex were released in the Welschtobel as part of resettlement attempts. Plans to build a reservoir or to build a road tunnel between Arosa and Alvaneu were never realized.

swell

  • Hans Danuser : Arosa place and field names with inclusion of the Welschtobel and some areas near the border in neighboring communities, self-published Danuser, Arosa 2011, ISBN 3-905342-49-9 , pp. 20 f., 28, 34, 42, 91, 124 f ., 130 f.
  • Manfred Hunziker: Ringelspitz / Arosa / Rätikon, Alpine Touren / Bündner Alpen , Verlag des SAC 2010, ISBN 978-3-85902-313-0 , p. 316.
  • The local mountains of the canton of Graubünden , Verlag Rüegger, Chur / Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-7253-0742-3 , p. 16.
  • SAC Club Guide, Bündner Alpen 1, Tamina and Plessur Mountains , Verlag des SAC, 4th edition 1988, p. 54.
  • Hans Danuser: Arosa - as it was back then (1850-1907) , vol. 1, self-published by Danuser, Arosa 1997, pp. 8, 13.
  • Hans Danuser / Walser Association Graubünden (ed.): Old ways in Schanfigg , Verlag Walser Association Graubünden, Splügen 1997, p. 25 f.
  • Hans Danuser, Ruedi Homberger: Arosa und das Schanfigg , self-published by Danuser / Homberger, Arosa 1988, p. 172.
  • Heinrich Tgetgel, Schweizer Wanderbuch 30, Schanfigg – Arosa, 3rd edition, Bern 1971, p. 92 ff.
  • JB Casty: Arosa - From the local history of the world-famous health resort , Verlag Kur- und Verkehrsverein Arosa, Arosa 1959/60, pp. 98-100.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Südostschweiz of April 18, 2013, p. 5.
  2. ↑ Aroser Zeitung of July 26, 2013, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name. Terra Grischuna Verlag, 3rd edition, Chur 1999, p. 150.
  4. ↑ Hans Danuser: Arosa - as it was then (1928-1946), vol. 3, self-published by Danuser, Arosa 1999, p. 158.

Web links

Commons : Welschtobel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 44 '45.1 "  N , 9 ° 39' 57.9"  E ; CH1903:  770192  /  179601