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i wake up early today, not just because of the usual 5:00 bell ringing from the monastary’s church tower, today the whole valley around einsiedeln is just drowning in the sound of cow bells and sheep bells — it’s alpabtrieb! every year in the may–june time frame the local farmers bring their stocks, mostly cows and the occasional sheep herd, from the valley floor up to the alps where they stay for the summer. from the beginning of september until mid-september, end of september we then have alpabtrieb when the whole process is reversed.
einsiedeln being a little town1 with tourist traffic all year round it wouldn’t do to have all the farmers bring down their stock all at once, so, the whole business proceeds in stages according to a pre-determined schedule over the course of two weeks. today we seem to have the cows from our end of valley descending on us 
oh, and that picture was not taken today but rather two years ago at the goldinger tal, they’ve homecoming cows there as well.
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actually, it’s not entirely clear whether einsiedeln is still a village or already a town — with over 8000 inhabitants, a proper railway station, a monastery and lots of shops, the gnawing suspicion has been voiced that one is now longer das dorf but instead a town… ↩
