Oberheinzenberg exploration tour

The Glaspass and the Oberheinzenberg were settled by the Walsers from the Safiental in the 14th century. The scattered settlement of Tschappina with the fractions Ober- and Untertschappina, Obergmeind and Inner- and Ausser Glas was the only German-speaking community on the Heinzenberg until the end of the 19th century. Oberurmein with the idyllically situated Patrutgsee, on the other hand, was built as a vacation home settlement in the 1970s and is a fraction of the municipality of Urmein.

For centuries, the Glaspass was the gateway to the outside world for the inhabitants of the Safiental. They walked over the Glas Pass to Thusis to buy food and other goods at the market and to sell their livestock. It was only when the access road was built from Thalkirch to Versam in 1885 that the valley opened up to the north and the importance of the Glas Pass diminished.