グラタールプ湖での周辺の簡単なハイキングとウォーキング

Switzerland's largest alpine pasture lies east of the Klausen Pass, but politically it belongs to Uri—more precisely, to the municipality of Spiringen—and not to Glarus. The well-known border crossing legend tells the legendary story of how this came about. The border was precisely demarcated in 1315, and Urnerboden has been inhabited year-round since 1877.

Amazing area, simply beautiful.

The Fätschbach (also just Fätsch) is a 13-kilometer-long left tributary of the Linth in the Swiss cantons of Uri and Glarus, which flows through the Urner Boden.

There are free parking spaces in front of the chapel and the village shop

A tranquil village where you can buy an incredible amount of Alpine cheese. A great starting point for hiking, of course.

small & fine, nice people, very good food

The Urnerboden represents a unique cultural landscape in Switzerland. The largest Kuhalp in Switzerland is managed by around 50 alpine farmers with around 1,000 summer animals. Due to the quality and size of the alp, the Urnerboden is of great importance for agriculture in the canton of Uri. Large parts of the Urnerboden are of national importance as a moorland landscape. The landscape has an original, undisturbed character. It has a variety of relief forms, lively traditional uses and well-preserved cultural landscape elements such as wooden fences, stone walls and alpine and scattered huts. The ecological importance of the Urnerboden lies in the widespread moorland areas on the plain and the species-rich dry meadows and pastures on the southern slope. Around 34 hectares of moors (flat and raised moors) and around 114 hectares of dry pastures or wild hay areas are designated and are mostly of national importance. Other habitats such as streams, springs, trees and forests complement the valuable habitat mosaic.

Bogs form when the ground is constantly saturated with water. In the case of fens, it is usually slope and groundwater. Organic soils form on such wet sites because humus degradation is greatly reduced. Only species that are adapted to these specific site conditions occur. Various species of orchids, such as blood-red orchid, onion orchid or marsh orchid but also the beautifully flowering fever clover are attractive species in this now rare habitat. The fluffy inflorescences of the cotton grass, which also occurs, add splashes of white color to the landscape in summer. To prevent fens from growing into wet forests, regular litter cutting or extensive grazing is necessary.