Alp Sücka in the Saminatal, municipality of Triesenberg, 1177–1706 m above sea level, alpine building and mountain inn at 1402 m above sea level, 130.6 ha, of which 54 ha are productive pastureland. Borders on the Kulm to the west, the Alpelti to the south, Silum and Bargälla to the north, and Steg to the east. Name from the dilapidated dialect Sügga, Alemannic Sügge (marshy area). In 1963, a bronze lance tip from the Late Bronze Age was found in the Sücka area at around 1470 m above sea level (approx. 12th/11th century BC). When first mentioned in the Brandisian Urbar (around 1509/17), Sücka was considered a Triesner Alp, while today's Düraboda part of the Alp is referred to as a separate Walser Alp. From around 1600, Düraboda appears as a lordly alp and the Sücka also belonged to the Counts of Hohenems in the 17th century (as in the revenue office accounts of 1681), and from 1712 to the Princes of Liechtenstein. In the 17th century, the Hohenemsers sold some parts of the alp to private individuals from Triesenberg. In the 18th century, the Sücka was leased first to the Triesenbergers, then from 1734 at the latest to individuals from the Schellenberg lordship and from 1783 to the early 19th century to the local subjects, then to the Triesen and Triesenberg communities, and finally to citizens of Vaduz. In 1887, the Triesenberg community was able to purchase the Sücka at an auction from Prince Johann II on the condition that the individual dairy farm on all of its community alps be given up (purchase price 36,320 guilders). Sücka is traditionally a cow alp. According to the land register of 1509/17, Düraboda had to give 4 pounds of lard and 1 cheese to the authorities as bird whey. In 1928, 128 cows were summered, in 1984 124, and in 2004 103 dairy cows with cheese production, with the stocking rate set at 80 livestock units since 1997. Pigs were also summered (15 in 2004). By the 1870s at the latest, i.e. before the municipality of Triesenberg acquired it, the alpine buildings also served as a whey and air spa. Sücka was thus one of the first tourist stops in the Liechtenstein mountain region. In 1888-90, the stable was renovated and a new spa house was built, which has been leased since then and still offers overnight accommodation today as the "Berggasthaus Sücka". The Kulm-Steg road, built around 1867/68, also opened up the Sücka for wagons. The road has been used as a natural toboggan run in winter since 1963. The legend of the Sückacheris, a dishonest and gambling-addicted herdsman, takes place on the Sücka Alp. Text / Source: Alpgenossenschaft Steg (agt)