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Sorniot

Site Canton of Valais · District: Martigny · Uninhabited site (municipality of Fully)
Part of the municipality of Fully
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Origin of the name Sorniot

Also spelled « Sorgno », and « Chorgne » in patois, the name is said to come from the patois « chi ergneu », jagged rock. No dated early form is known.[3]

Founding of Sorniot

Sorniot is a vast high-altitude area of the municipality of Fully, on the circuit of the Grand Chavalard, between the lower and upper lakes of Fully. The lower lake is also called Petit Lac or « Lac de Sorniot ». It is not a village: it has a chapel, a cross and a hut at 2'064 m. The hut grew out of the goal set in 1937 by the founders of the Ski-Club Chavalard of Fully, and the chapel, one of the hamlet chapels of Fully, dates from 1985.[1][2][3][4]

History of Sorniot

1937. The founders of the Ski-Club Chavalard of Fully make a hut at Sorniot their main goal.[1]

1950s. Several hut projects are drawn up but not carried out.[1]

1967. The idea is revived, supported by the interest of Télé-Ovronnaz and by a plan for an aircraft landing strip that raises hopes for the heights of Fully.[1]

1968-1969. The ski club builds a partly prefabricated hut. Begun at the end of summer 1968, the work is completed in August 1969, and the hut is inaugurated on 10 August.[1]

1983-1984. The hut is enlarged. Electricity, winter toilets and a telephone follow in the next few years.[1]

1985. Construction of the chapel of Sorniot.[2]

2006. On 13 October an extraordinary general meeting of the ski club approves the construction of a new hut by 98 %.[1]

2007. On 23 June work begins on the new hut, carried out over more than two years with many volunteers and donors.[1]

2009. On 15 August, for the hut's 40th anniversary, the new building is inaugurated.[1]

Historic sites in Sorniot

Cabane de Sorniot. Hut at about 2'064 m owned by the Ski-Club Chavalard of Fully, inaugurated in 1969, extended in 1983-1984 and replaced by a new building opened in 2009. About twenty volunteer wardens, members of the club, run it.[1]

Chapel of Sorniot. Chapel built in 1985, also simply called « la Chapelle ».[2][3][4]

Lower lake of Fully. Natural lake also called Petit Lac or « Lac de Sorniot ». Behind its pump stands the Cross of Sorniot, in patois « la Krouaï dè Chorgne ».[3]

Sources

  1. Ski-Club Chavalard Fully, « Cabane de Sorniot » (historique)
  2. Fully Tourisme, brochure « Bienvenue à Fully »
  3. Jean-Marie Ançay, « Fully, ses lieux-dits : compléments et corrections topographiques », 8e édition, 2024
  4. Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, « Fully » (Benjamin Roduit, version du 14.06.2007)
  5. geo.admin.ch, recherche de lieux (coordonnées)

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