Alpine Transhumance in the European Alps (c. 1000–1900)

1. Pays-d’Enhaut hard-cheese making documented

   Jan 1, 1150Labels: Pays-d Enhaut, Hard cheese

   • Swiss PDO PGI

2. Walser migrations expand high-alpine settlement

   Jan 1, 1150Labels: Walser, High Alps

   • Walser migrations

3. Alpine ricotta-style Alpziger referenced

   Jan 1, 1150Labels: Alpziger, Romansh source

   • Slow Food

4. Earliest known document on summer pasture

   Jan 1, 1204Labels: Summer pasture, 1204 document

   • Alpine transhumance

5. Cattle raising becomes dominant in parts of Alps

   Jan 1, 1300Labels: Cattle raising, Swiss Alps

   • Alpine transhumance
   • Swissinfo

6. Cheese market at Gruyère attested by 1312

   Jan 1, 1312Labels: Gruy re, Cheese market

   • FAO Cerescope
   • Swiss PDO PGI

7. Sbrinz named in Bern documents (1530)

   Jan 1, 1530Labels: Sbrinz, Bern archives

   • Sbrinz Wiki
   • HelveticKitchen

8. Bregenzerwald shifts toward fat dairying post-1648

   Jan 1, 1648Labels: Bregenzerwald, Fat dairying

   • Bregenz Forest

9. Pays-d’Enhaut specializes in export-oriented cheese

   Jan 1, 1700Labels: Pays-d Enhaut, Export cheese

   • Swiss PDO PGI
   • Swiss cheeses

10. First municipal dairy built in Au (1830)

    Jan 1, 1830Labels: Au, Municipal dairy

    • Bregenz Forest

11. Swiss Alpine Club founded, accelerating mountain tourism

    Apr 19, 1863Labels: Swiss Alpine, Alpinism

    • Swiss Alpine Club
    • Swiss hiking

12. Cooperative founded for L’Etivaz alpine cheese

    Jan 1, 1932Labels: L Etivaz, Cooperative

    • Etivaz AOP
    • Swiss PDO PGI