Trun GR

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GR is the abbreviation for the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Trunf .
Trun
Trun coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region : Surselva
BFS no. : 3987i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 7166 Trun
7168 Schlans
Coordinates : 718 384  /  177991 coordinates: 46 ° 44 '33 "  N , 8 ° 59' 16"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred eighteen thousand three hundred eighty-four  /  177991
Height : 861  m above sea level M.
Height range : 809–3417 m above sea level M.
Area : 51.90  km²
Residents: 1170 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 23 inhabitants per km²
Mayor : Tomaschett Dumeni
Website: www.trun.ch
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Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1957

Trun ( [tʀʊnː] ? / I , German and officially Truns until 1943 ) is a municipality in the Surselva region of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland . Audio file / audio sample

coat of arms

Blazon : In silver (white) a maple with roots and a black trunk and five green leaves.

The maple of Trun , which is depicted in the coat of arms , stands by the St. Anna chapel . He refers to the genesis of the Upper or Gray Covenant and the Federal Letter of 1424.

geography

The community is located in the Cadi in the Surselva on the left side of the Vorderrhein . With the exception of the district Zignau / Ringgenberg 879  m with the fractions Vricla and Chilgieri and the hamlet Lumneins , on the right bank of the Rhine, all larger settlements are north (left) of the river. The highest peaks in the southern part of the municipality are the Cavistrau ( 3251  m ), the Piz Nadels ( 2789  m ) and the Piz Miezdi ( 2741  m ). The northwesternmost point of the municipality is the Piz Urlaun , the northeasternmost point is the Bifertenstock , called Pèz Durschin in Romansh . Between these two corner points lies a mountain range that is also the canton border to the canton of Glarus .

The largest settlements north of the Vorderrhein are (from east to west) Tiraun , Darvella , Flutginas , where the famous brothers Zarli and Alois Carigiet lived, the village of Trun , Pustget , Gravas and Campliun in the valley floor and Cumadé , Bardigliun , Caltgadira and Cartatscha on the slope and Schlans . There are also numerous farmsteads and individual settlements.

The lowest point of the municipality is the Rhine near Flantuosch at an altitude of 811 m. Of the entire municipal area of ​​over 51 km², 1,744 ha (= 40%) of mountains and 1,463 ha (= 34%) are forested. Of the 1015 ha of agricultural land, 625 ha are cultivated as alpine pastures. The remaining 81 hectares are settlement areas.

Neighboring communities are Sumvitg , Glarus Süd in the canton of Glarus, Breil / Brigels and Obersaxen Mundaun .

history

Trun 1818 (Johann Ludwig Bleuler)

Trun's history goes back to the Bronze Age : In Caltgeras, north of the road from Trun to Darvella, a settlement from around 1200 BC is located near the stream construction. Proven. On the right bank of the Rhine near Grepault , Walo Burkart discovered a settlement from the Hallstatt period and an early medieval church fort near Zignau in 1931 . Some walls are still visible today. The settlement of the region around Trun was completed by the early Middle Ages at the latest.

From the Middle Ages on, Trun, as a neighbor of the Cadi, together with Sumvitg, formed the fourth court in his court . The monastery castles of Cartatscha , Friberg , Ringgenberg and Phiesel demarcated the state of the Disentis monastery to the east from the rule of Waltensburg and Jörgenberg .

Trun was the founding place of the Gray League in 1424 , its court location until 1798 and its meeting place until 1814. Next to the mentioned chapel Caplutta Sontga Onna has been a court of honor of the Gray League since 1701. In the former cloister courtyard of La Cuort, in which the Bundestag of the Gray League was held from 1428, the Sursilvan Museum is now housed. Among other things, part of the old maple trunk , under which the Gray Bund was founded in 1424, as well as some works of art by the painter Alois Carigiet is exhibited in the then meeting room of the Gray League .

The name Trun appears in Tello's will , who bequeathed goods to Disentis Abbey in 765 . Presumably the place name derives from the stream name Taurontum , presumably the today's stream Ferrera, which flows through the village. The Ferrera, for its part, received its name at the time when iron (Italian ferro ) was extracted from the rock on the south-eastern flank of the Pez Ner (German Black Summit ) in the Val Punteglias. The stream rises at about 2345 m from the glacier 'Glatscher da Punteglias' and flows into the Rhine south of Darvella about 300 meters east of the town sign. The Ferrera power plant has been using its water to generate electricity since July 1999, with an average annual production of 18 million kWh. The gradient from the socket to the power plant is 771 meters.

On January 1, 2012, the municipality of Trun merged with the neighboring municipality of Schlans .

  • Aerial view

  • Court of Honor of the Gray League

  • Hotel Tödi in the village center

  • S. Catrina Chapel in Campliun

population

Population development
year 1850 1900 1950 2000 2010 2012 2014 2016
Residents 1047 974 1598 1322 1234 1221 1205 1180

The official and school language is the Rhaeto-Romanic idiom Sursilvan . In the 2000 census, the main language was 79% Romansh, 15% German. Of the 1267 residents at the end of 2005, 1211 (= 95%) were Swiss citizens.

Attractions

Trun train station

On March 4, 2019, there was a fire in the house where Zarli and Alois Carigiet were born. The support association Trun Cultura, founded in January 2020, hoped for an opportunity to preserve Casa Carigiet for public-cultural purposes.

Personalities and genders

  • Alois Carigiet (1902–1985), painter, commercial artist and children's book illustrator (born and died in Trun)
  • Zarli Carigiet (1907–1981), cabaret artist and actor (born in Trun)
  • Caspar Decurtins (1855-1916), politician (born and died in Trun)
  • Vitus Huonder (* 1942), Roman Catholic. Bishop of Chur (born in Trun)
  • Toni Livers (* 1983), cross-country skier (grew up in Trun)
  • Placidus a Spescha (1752–1833) monk, mountaineer, writer and naturalist (born, raised and died in Trun)
  • Matias Spescha (1925–2008) artist
  • Giusep Nay (* 1942) federal judge

An important family in Trun is the Demund .

literature

Web links

Commons : Trun  - 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. ↑ Cavistrau on ETHorama
  3. ↑ Taurontum
  4. ↑ St. Martin's Catholic parish church at www.graubuendenkultur.ch .
  5. ↑ Catholic parish church of St. Georg at www.graubuendenkultur.ch .
  6. ↑ St. Katharina's Chapel at www.graubuendenkultur.ch .
  7. ↑ Casa Carigiet could be saved , Southeastern Switzerland , January 20, 2020, page 7