Economics

Raw materials- food- goods
Tourism
At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century summer visitors used the villages for recreation. A few years later winter visitors discovered the Walser valleys as areas with snow guaranteed.
Professions
Tourism in Oberwallis
Magnificent mountains. Peaks, as far as the eye can see. The eye catching Matterhorn. Or the Aletschgletscher in the first UNESCO world nature heritage park of the alps.
Tässle/ Tesseln
Tesseln are pieces of wood or staffs, if its easy to understand, which recorded legal facts by means of nicked indications.
Walser economy
The meagre land, short harvest times and long winters made the farmers’ work very demanding. The climatic as well as the topographic conditions required a high degree of know-how and experience. In order to create an economic coverage, sophisticated ways of working were necessary on the individually and jointly used land.