Below Romoos, at the foot of the Napf, the fountains flow. But the miraculous stream has a big secret: if you have a little patience and the necessary equipment, you can extract pure gold from the sand bit by bit. A great experience for young and old, which with a good guide will surely lead to a gold blessing.
The gold of the bowl
When a powerful man from this region, a feared tormentor of his subjects, had to flee from his enemies, he dragged his treasures, which he wanted to keep safe from his pursuers, to the Napf. Here his strength failed him. He hid his golden wealth on the summit of the mountain so that he could take it to a safe place when the opportunity arose. As he fled, he was caught by the outraged people and beaten to death with clubs and axes. The mountain spirits of the Napf, however, considered themselves the heirs of the slain tyrant and seized the treasure. They dragged the golden burden into their underground rooms and, with great effort, formed a golden lump out of it, which they keep inside the mountain and guard carefully. Only on holy nights does the mountain open and the miners drag their treasure to the surface. In the dark of night, the inhabitants of the Napf mountain region can see the gold glittering far and wide.
However, lifting the precious goods is very difficult and can only be done by someone who does not say a single word while loading and until the golden load is completely out of the mountain. Many people are said to have managed to load the end of the precious load. But when it came to pulling, the driver forgot the commandment to keep quiet. And every time, even when the load seemed to be halfway recovered, it shot back into the mountain with a thunderous rumble at the first word.
Source : According to H. Wahlen: Emmental legends, collected and edited, Bern, 1941, from P. Pfander and V. Jans: Gold in Switzerland, In search of the yellow metal.
The men from Enziloch
The valley lords are menacing figures. They sit at a terrible table and lick poisonous green sulphur, throw coal-black pitch and then disappear again. They are blamed for the terrible Napf thunderstorms and were therefore banished to the Enziloch, where they still laboriously handle fir trunks and boulders today.
Access
The best way to reach the stream bed is on foot via a steep descent from Romoos.
