View upon the Bürstegg pasture
View upon the Bürstegg pasture
Bürstegg, situated in a place that would have surely inspired Johanna Spyri to write another "Heidi" novel, is one of the remaining Walser settlements still inhabited by direct descendants of the alemannic people who emigrated in the 1300s from the German-speaking part of the Valais/Wallis in Switzerland to western Austria and managed to preserve their culture, language and traditions over the centuries. Behind Bürstegg one sees the elegant pyramid of Biberkopf (2599m) as well as Mädelegabel and Hochlicht in the Allgäu Alps, and on the opposite side of the deep gorge carved by the Lech river, the Rappenspitze, already a mountain in the Lechtal Alps.
EricChu
on Sep 6, 2012 2:14 pm
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