Schlappin

For centuries, goods transporters, so-called mules, moved from the south to the SchlappinerJoch, the approximately 2200-meter-high pass between the montafon and Prättigau valleys. The horses of the mules had to bear hard. Each horse was packed with two wine barrels of 75 liters of wine. Until the 19th century, wine from Valtellina was stored on the Schlappiner Joch in sheds that are still preserved in ruins today. Until the 19th century, the people of Montafon climbed the yoke from the north to take over the wine. In winter, they even let the precious red glide to the valley on sledges.

Later, the wine and goods took new paths far away from the old Schlappiner Joch. But some things remained; for example, the village of Schlappin at the foot of the pass. In the early 14th century, Walser immigrants founded the settlement, and for more than three centuries they remained here as farmers all year round. Today, Schlappin is used as a temporary settlement, as a Maiensäss – and appreciated as an idyllic place.