Wie es anfing

At that time, the valley served the Schamsers and the Barons of Sax-Misox as an alpine and pasture area. It cannot be ruled out that a few Romanesque farmers were already resident. At the end of the 13th century, the Walser finally settled in the Rheinwald. They had received the area as a fief for cultivation. With the advent of the movement of goods over the Rheinwald Passes, however, this became irrelevant. The farmers transported the goods with mule horses. Only when the opening of the Gotthard Tunnel at the end of the 19th century sealed the decline of local transit traffic, the farms were again expanded into commercial enterprises.