The Valleys of Tirol: Their traditions and customs and how to visit them

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Busk Rachel Harriette. The Valleys of Tirol: Their traditions and customs and how to visit them

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. VORARLBERG

CHAPTER II. NORTH-TIROL – UNTERINNTHAL (RIGHT-INN BANK) KUFSTEIN TO ROTTENBURG

CHAPTER III. NORTH TIROL – UNTERINNTHAL (RIGHT INN-BANK) THE ZILLERTHAL

CHAPTER IV. NORTH TIROL – UNTERINNTHAL (RIGHT INN-BANK) (ZILLERTHAL CUSTOMS. – THE WILDSCHÖNAU.)

CHAPTER V. NORTH TIROL – UNTERINNTHAL (LEFT INN-BANK.)

CHAPTER VI. NORTH TIROL – UNTERINNTHAL (RIGHT INN-BANK) SCHWATZ

CHAPTER VII. NORTH TIROL – UNTERINNTHAL (RIGHT INN-BANK) EXCURSIONS FROM SCHWATZ

CHAPTER VIII. NORTH TIROL – THE INNTHAL. INNSBRUCK

CHAPTER IX. NORTH TIROL – THE INNTHAL. INNSBRUCK (continued)

CHAPTER X. NORTH TIROL – OBERINNTHAL. INNSBRUCK TO ZIRL AND SCHARNITZ – INNSBRUCK TO THE LISENS-FERNER

CHAPTER XI. WÄLSCH-TIROL. THE WÄLSCH-TIROLISCHE ETSCHTHAL AND ITS TRIBUTARY VALLEYS

CHAPTER XII. WÄLSCH-TIROL. VAL SUGANA. – GIUDICARIA. – FOLKLORE

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‘Traditions, myths, legends! what is the use of recording and propagating the follies and superstitions of a bygone period, which it is the boast of our modern enlightenment to have cast to the winds?’

Such is the hasty exclamation which allusion to these fantastic matters very frequently elicits. With many they find no favour because they seem to yield no profit; nay, rather to set up a hindrance in the way of progress and culture.

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The opening of the Stanzerthal, indeed, on which the road is carried, seems to belong of right to Vorarlberg, for its first post-halt of S. Christof came into existence through the agency of a poor foundling boy of that province, who was so moved by the sufferings of travellers at his date (1386), that he devoted his life to their service, and by begging collected money to found the nucleus of the hospice and brotherhood of S. Christof, which lasted till the time of Joseph II. The pass at its highest part is free from snow only from the beginning of July to September, and in the depth of winter it accumulates to a height of twenty feet. The church contains considerable remains of the date of its founder, Heinrich das Findelkind; of this date, or not much later, must be the gigantic statue of S. Christopher, patron of wayfarers.

The Stanzerthal, without being less grand, presents a much more smiling prospect than that traversed during the later part of the journey through Vorarlberg. The waters of the Rosanna and the Trisanna flow by the way; the mountains stretch away in the distance, in every hue of brilliant colouring; the whole landscape is studded with villages clustering round their church steeples, while Indian-corn-fields, fruit-gardens in which the barberry holds no insignificant place, and vast patches of a deep-tinted wild flora, fill up the picture.

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