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History of Berner Alpen


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In the Middle Ages the passports of the Bernese Alps served as transitions from the Bernese Oberland to the Valais. About the Gemmipass a road was laid out, but never got to the traffic moderate importance and to this day impassable to cars. Pass the regions were used for the early Alpine economy, especially of the German Alemanni , so still some peaks there, in other French-speaking environment, German names carry (Rawilhorn, Wetzsteinhorn).

The valleys of the Rhone valley leading towards the end of the Middle Ages were equipped with water pipes, which served to irrigate the arid southern slopes above the Rhone Valley and serve (known bites or Suonen ).

Settled on the north side were only the indentations along the edges of the Bernese Alps ( Lauterbrunnen , Kander , Engstligental , Simmental and Saanenland ) (small exceptionsUrbachtal and Stechelberg ), on the south side of the slopes of the mountains and the area around Leuk , the L�tschberg and the lower Fieschertal . The biggest part of the mountain was not only uninhabited and unused, but also inaccessible and unknown.

In the first scientific mountain panorama of the Alps Jacques-Barth�lemy Micheli du Crest , the Prospect of g�om�trique montagnes neig�es of 1755, the Bernese Alps are definitely recognizable, but named completely inadequate. Not even Albrecht von Hallerwas able Micheli du Crest communicate the correct names of the mountains.

The peripheral areas of the Bernese Alps, and in particular, the Bernese Oberland side were in the Baroque and Romantic destination for poets ( Goethe ), Painter ( William Turner , Samuel Birman , Caspar Wolf ) and researchers ( Louis Agassiz , Hugi .) In particular, the Grindelwald Glacier and the Schmadribachfall , Rosenlaui andUnteraargletscher were considered worth seeing.

The tourist conquest and thus the geographical discovery of the inner Bernese Alps was here from the Grimsel Pass. Already here in the Baroque era scientists had
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