The Heidi House is a traditional village winter house, located on the lower mountain slopes - the high alpine huts were traditionally only used for summer grazing. On the way, the fields are filled with the flowers and aroma of the firs.
This is home to the Heidi House museum, a souvenir shop and a petting zoo with playful goats. We stop to take in the view, Maya splashing in the cool Alpine water, before following the trail uphill past the Heidihof Hotel to the hamlet of Oberrofels, now named the Heidi Village. The first stop is the Heidi fountain, a stone carving of the little girl set among a picnic area. The official Heidi Trail starts from the station and leads up the mountain, following the route Heidi would have walked to meet her grandfather for the first time. The sun is high in the sky and the peak of the Pizol Mountain towers over us at 6,560 ft. With each season that passes, the mountaintop inhabitants grow more attached to Heidi.Fictional fun: A visit to 'Heidi's House' in Maienfeld will be enchanting for children who have read the storyīut what is it that makes the story so eternal? Dutch-born Heidiland tour guide Caroline Meester has a theory: 'Everyone recognises something about his or her childhood in the story,' she says.įrom our base at the Swiss Heidi Hotel, a modern and minimalist building behind Maienfeld train station, we set out to explore. Heidi enthusiastically befriends her new neighbors, young Peter the goatherd, his mother, Bridgget, and his blind maternal grandmother.
He briefly resents Heidi's arrival, but the girl's evident intelligence and cheerful yet unaffected demeanor soon earn his genuine, if reserved, affection. This has earned him the nickname 'Uncle Alp'. He has been at odds with the villagers and embittered against God for years and lives in seclusion on the alm. Dete brings 5-year-old Heidi to her paternal grandfather's house, up the mountain from Dörfli. Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland after the early deaths of her parents, Tobias and Adelheid (Dete's sister and brother-in-law). Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature. It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps. Heidi is a work of children's fiction by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: her years of wandering and learning and Heidi : How she used what she learned.
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