トシャッピナの山小屋＆キャビン・トップ20

Splügen

While down in the Rheinwald, in Sufers, traffic rumbles on the A13, up here you can enjoy the peace and romance of the Cufercal hut. Popular with hikers and bikers, it is the only SAC hut in the Beverin Nature Park, where the ibex was reintroduced in 1954. The half-dozen small lakes in the immediate vicinity are particularly attractive. In winter, the terrain is suitable for easy ski and snowshoe tours. Reservations can be made online by 6:00 p.m. the evening before at the latest under “Prices/Reservations”.

Hotel Bodenhaus, Splügen in the Rheinwald The Bodenhaus has been the solitaire of Splügen since it was built in 1722. The building originally served as a storage room for transported goods, contained the post office and offered accommodation and food for travelers. In 1822 the Bodenhaus was converted into a comfortable hotel. The guest books contain famous names such as: Albert Einstein, Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, William Turner, Napoleon III and Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria. Text / Source: Hôtel Bodenhaus, Splügen https://www.hotel-bodenhaus.ch/entdecken#:~:text=Das%20Bodenhaus%20ist%20seit%20seiner,zu%20einem%20komfortablen%20Hotel%20umgebaut.

If you are going for a day of tobogganing on the Heinzenberg, you should not miss a short break here for something to eat and drink. It is a few meters up the mountain from the lift, but the detour is worth it. From here, you can take a leisurely sled ride back down.

Easily reachable by MTB, path S0.

Good Retreat

Small bathing lake with kiosk

Driftwood ball reminds us of the destructive power. Reto Hänny, writer from Tschappina: Text excerpt from “Chiaroscuro” [p. 162 – 163] (1994): When the rumble rolled down the ravine? Can you remember the dull rumbling, the shaking under your feet; or do you only know all of this from your grandfather’s stories? [...] Pieces of land, hills, then the whole slope, begin to slide, to sag, slowly, barely visible at first, barely a tremor in the branches, then, if you look a moment later, suddenly more quickly, they begin to rise up, to fall over, alders and firs, wedging themselves together, are thrown together like Mikado sticks, stones, splintering wood, fences and broken trunks, whose bare roots protrude from the blue-black mush, clawing in vain for support in the rain-shaded air, dancing over the ditch and down on the mudslide [...]" Trees, rocks, houses, nothing on the Heinzenberg was safe from the raging mountain stream Nolla. The Nolla is a stream with extraordinary power, which shaped the landscape over a wide area and taught the inhabitants of Heinzenberg and Domleschg to fear. When the water level was high, the Nolla carried so much debris, such as rubble or driftwood, down from the Heinzenberg that it literally piled up to form a dam in front of the valley floor, until the force of the water swept these walls away again, triggering a strong flood wave.