Alp-Museum Fasons
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Alpine farm. Furnished alpine hut with dairy, milk and cheese cellar, parlor, liggmach and woodshed.
The Alpstafel Fasons was built in 1877 and has a structure typical of the time. In the center is the stable and next to it the two alpine huts or Sennten. Of the four alpine huts in the municipality of Seewis, named Wundrig, Fausch, Wehrli and Junker, two were on this Alpstafel Fasons. The allocation changed annually, according to a fixed rotation. Cheese, butter and Ziger cheese were produced in the alpine huts from 1877 to 1985. Since 1988, one of the alpine huts has been a museum, while the other serves as accommodation for the calf herder during the alpine summer. In the winter of 2012, the museum was crushed by an avalanche of sliding snow. The municipality of Seewis, together with the building insurance company, the Graubünden Monument Protection Agency, the Binding Foundation and the Fasons Alpine Museum Association, rebuilt the alpine hut on the same foundations.
Benno Furrer's treatise on alpine buildings in Graubünden shows the construction methods of traditional alpine dairies from the second half of the 19th century onwards. The structure of the alpine buildings changed considerably after 1900 due to the conversion of individual dairies into cooperative dairies and state subsidies from 1890. The Valarsäge was built by the entrepreneur Andreas Jost (1853-1919). He was a sawyer, carpenter, carpenter, farmer and mountain guide all rolled into one. The saw used to stand in Seewis and was used to rebuild the village after the village fire of 1863. No longer needed, Andreas Jost bought the saw from the municipality in 1896, carefully dismantled it and rebuilt it in its new location at the Valarbach stream at the far end of the valley. The saw resumed operation in 1897 and was not shut down until 1950. A special feature is that the saw is driven by a water wheel with a rear wheel. Andreas Jost used the wood from this saw to build the Schesaplana house in 1898. In 1919, Andreas Jost sold the Schesaplana mountain lodge to the SAC Pfannenstiel section in the Zurich Oberland, which still owns it today.
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General information
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Alp-Museum Fasons
Verein Alp-Museum Fasons 7212 Seewis-Dorf 079 460 75 20 081 300 01 20 erich.vogel@janettlaw.ch 081 300 01 29 |
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Group & pricing information
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German
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Free admission (voluntary donations possible)
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Alp-Museum Fasons
Fasons
7212
Seewis Dorf
Switzerland