Silvaplana

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Silvaplana
Coat of arms of Silvaplana
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region : Maloja
BFS no. : 3790i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 7513 Silvaplana
7513 Silvaplana-Surlej
Coordinates : 781 070  /  148 128 coordinates: 46 ° 27 '36 "  N , 9 ° 47' 46"  O ; CH1903:  781.07 thousand  /  148 128
Height : 1815  m above sea level M.
Height range : 1789–3432 m above sea level M.
Area : 44.77  km²
Residents: 1111 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 25 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.gemeinde-silvaplana.ch
Silvaplana with Lake Silvaplana

Silvaplana with Lake Silvaplana
Location of the municipality
Albignasee Lej da Champfèr Lago Bianco Lago di Lei Lago di Gera Lago di Livigno Lago di S. Giacomo-di Fraéle Lago di Poschiavo Lago di Monte Spluga Lai da Marmorera Silsersee Silvaplanersee St. Moritzersee Stazersee Sufnersee Italien Region Albula Region Bernina Region Viamala Region Engiadina Bassa/Val Müstair Region Plessur Region Prättigau/Davos Bever GR Bever GR Bregaglia Celerina/Schlarigna Madulain Madulain Pontresina La Punt-Chamues-ch Samedan Samedan S-chanf Sils im Engadin/Segl Silvaplana St. Moritz Zuoz ZuozMap of Silvaplana
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Silvaplana ( Rhaeto-Romanic Silvaplauna ? / I ) is a municipality in the Maloja region of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Silvaplana-Surlej
Historic aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer from 1934

The well-known holiday resort is located on Lake Silvaplana in the Upper Engadine at an altitude of 1815  m at the beginning of the Inn Valley . The lake is the middle of the three Upper Engadine lakes and lies between Lake St. Moritz and Lake Sils . On the southern side of the Inn lies the part of the village Surlej (Romanesque for 'over the lake'). Not far from this part of the village there is a boulder on the lakeshore, of which Friedrich Nietzsche reports that he had the thought of eternal return - on which the writing Also sprach Zarathustra is based - in August 1881 when he stopped at this point.

Silvaplana is right at the intersection of the Inn and Julier Passes (2284 m), which makes it easily accessible from the north. In the south-east the terrain rises steeply to the Corvatsch, a mountain range on the edge of the Bernina massif, which at 4050 m has the highest peak in the Eastern Alps .

coat of arms

Blazon : In silver on a blue shield base a black, red armed ibex

The ibex from the community seal was combined with the blue shield base as a reference to Lake Silvaplana.

population

Population development
year 1804 1850 1900 1950 1970 1980 1990 2000 2006 2010 2012 2014 2016
Residents 348 205 319 333 714 790 720 913 946 978 1012 1067 1054

languages

Originally, all residents spoke Puter , a Rhaeto-Romanic idiom. A minority switched to German as early as the second half of the 19th century. In 1880, 73.3% and in 1910 48.61% said Romansh was their mother tongue. This value rose to 54.9% by 1941. But by 1970 Romansh had become a minority language (1970: 200 out of 714 inhabitants, which corresponds to 28.01%). Since then the language has collapsed. Thanks to Romansh lessons in school, 34.1% were able to communicate in this language in 2000. Together with German, Romansh is the official language. The following table shows the development over the past decades:

Languages ​​in Silvaplana
languages 1980 census 1990 census 2000 census
number proportion of number proportion of number proportion of
German 346 43.80% 434 60.28% 602 65.94%
Romansh 207 26.20% 141 19.58% 97 10.62%
Italian 138 17.47% 127 17.64% 145 15.88%
Residents 790 100% 720 100% 913 100%

religion

In 1556 the residents switched to the Protestant faith. In addition to the Reformed village church, there has also been the Catholic Church of the Assumption of Mary since 1962 , which belongs to the parish of St. Mauritius in St. Moritz.

Origin and nationality

Of the 946 residents counted at the end of 2006, 719 (= 76%) were Swiss citizens.

traffic

The valley traffic has bypassed Silvaplana to the east since 1965. The construction of a bypass road for traffic over the Julier Pass began in 2010 and was opened on June 27, 2018.

Attractions

Personalities

literature

  • Ottavio Clavuot: Silvaplana. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2011 .
  • Erwin Poeschel : The art monuments of the canton of Graubünden III. The valley communities Räzünser Boden, Domleschg, Heinzenberg, Oberhalbstein, Upper and Lower Engadine. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 11). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1940. DNB 760079625 .

Web links

Commons : Silvaplana  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ Ottavio Clavuot: Silvaplana. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2011 .
  3. ↑ Albanacha substation