Aries field stick

Aries field stick
Aries field stick
height	2351  m above sea level M.
location	Canton border Nidwalden / Obwalden , Switzerland
Mountains	Unterwaldner Voralpen
Dominance	1.17 km →  Nünalphorn
Notch height	146 m ↓  Bocki-Rotisand
Coordinates	668 194  /  187329 coordinates: 46 ° 50 '1 "  N , 8 ° 19' 57"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred sixty-eight thousand one hundred and ninety-four  /  187,329

The Widderfeld Stock (also: Widderfeldstock ) is 2351  m above sea level. M. high mountain between the Melchtal and the Engelbergertal in Switzerland . It lies on the territory of the municipalities of Kerns ( Canton Obwalden ) and Wolfenschiessen ( Canton Nidwalden ).

etymology

The name goes back to the word ram as a name for male breeding sheep, since the ram field (like similar place names) served as a pasture for sheep .

Assignment

View of Flüeli-Ranft, in the background the Melchtal Mountains, from left to right : Widderfeld Stock, Nünalphorn , Huetstock and Barglen

The Widderfeld Stock belongs to the Unterwaldner Voralpen and thus to the Lucerne and Unterwaldner Voralpen (subsection 14.III of the SOIUSA classification). Together with the Nünalphorn , the Huetstock and the Barglen , the Widderfeld Stock forms the panorama of the Melchtalerberge , as can be seen from Sarnen and Flüeli-Ranft .

Widderfeldstock summit cross

geography

The mountain is part of a long ridge that runs from the Stanserhorn to the Jochpass . The actual summit consists of a curved ridge where the highest point can hardly be made out. However, it is marked with a small brick summit pyramid. To the north is the Widderfeld Stock by the Storeggpass (1741 m) from Gräfimattstand , the south by the Bocki-Rotsand (2,205 m) from the slightly higher Nünalphorn separately.

To the southwest of the summit ridge are the slopes of Alp Widderfeld with the alpine hut at 2257  m above sea level. M. This makes it one of the highest alps. Alp Gruobi is a little below at 2024  m above sea level. M. There a memorial stone reminds us that on October 14th, 1899 poachers from Nidwalden shot two game rangers in the exercise of their duty.

Web links

Commons : Widderfeld Stock  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Panoramic view from the Widderfeld Stock on the site summit of Switzerland
• Widderfeld Stock 2351 m Tour reports and photos on the Hikr.org website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alfred Helfenstein: The Namengut Pilate territory. Keller, Luzern 1982, ISBN 3-85766-004-X , p. 30.
2. ↑ Widderfeld Stock. Retrieved March 24, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Michael Blatter: Doppelmord auf der Gruobialp - A poacher case between Obwalden and Nidwalden , Rex Verlag 2001, ISBN 978-3-905198-65-2