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Liechtenstein Walser Foodways

Walser

Ethnolinguistic

TRIESENBERG and PLANKEN were settled in the 13th and 14th centuries by WALSER — German-speaking migrants from the Valais who moved along the high Alps and took land above the treeline that nobody else wanted, holding it on free tenure. Their speech, TRIESENBERGER, is a Highest Alemannic Walser variety and is markedly different from the Rhine-valley dialects below. The foodways are mountain foodways: Alpine dairying on the Alpen, cheese and butter made at the hut, dried and smoked meat, hard bread baked in batches, barley and rye, and hay meadows. ⚠ WALSER IS NOT LIECHTENSTEINER AND LIECHTENSTEINER IS NOT WALSER — this is one community within the country, connected to Walser settlements across Switzerland, Italy and Austria.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Walser community documented
  • Triesenberger community documented

Languages: Walser

What is recorded

  • Triesenberg and Planken were settled by Walser migrants from the Valais in the 13th and 14th centuries and Triesenberger is a Highest Alemannic Walser variety distinct from the Rhine-valley dialects. Walser foodways are one community within Liechtenstein, connected to Walser settlements in Switzerland, Italy and Austria, and are neither equated with Liechtensteiner foodways generally nor absorbed into Swiss ones. documented
  • Walser settlement of Triesenberg and Planken from the Valais. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Alpine Foodways documented
  • related to Swiss Foodways documented

    The Walser came from the Valais and their settlements span Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein.

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