Bever GR

GR is the abbreviation for the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Bever .

Bever

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	canton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region :	Maloja
BFS no. :	3781i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	7502
Coordinates :	787 669 / 158 339 coordinates: 46 ° 33 '0 " N , 9 ° 53' 10" O ; CH1903: 787 669 / one hundred and fifty-eight thousand three hundred thirty-nine46.55 9886 1708
Height :	1708 m above sea level M.
Height range :	1688–3397 m above sea level M.
Area :	45.75 km²
Residents:	616 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	13 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.bever.ch
Bever GR
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Bever ( [ˈbevəɾ] ^?^/^I , officially called Bevers until 1943 , Italian Bevero ) is a municipality in the Maloja region of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland .

The village of Bever lies at the foot of the almost 3000 meter high Bevers local mountain Crasta Mora. The hamlet of Spinas in the Val Bever belongs to Bever .

Historical aerial photo from 2100 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1919

coat of arms

Blazon : In gold (yellow) the striding St. James in blue robe, with a pilgrim's staff

The coat of arms shows the patron of the Reformed Church Bever in the swapped colors of the Upper Engadin district.

population

Population development
year	1850	1888	1900	1950	1980	1990	2000	2006	2010	2012	2014	2016	2017
Residents	181	151	407	227	432	496	631	704	660	636	620	616	598

languages

Until the middle of the 19th century, the entire population spoke Puter , a Rhaeto-Romanic idiom . Due to tourism, the proportion of Romansh speakers fell early on. In 1880 81% said Romansh was their mother tongue, in 1910 it was only 59%. In 1941 the share was last over 50% (50.4%).

After the Second World War , the language changed to German. In the 1990s, there was a dramatic slump in Romansh due to the high immigration of German speakers. Today, German is the language of the authorities. However, 47% were able to communicate in Romansh in 1990 and 45% in 2000. The following table shows the development over the past decades:

Languages in Bever GR
languages	1980 census		1990 census		2000 census
languages	number	proportion of	number	proportion of	number	proportion of
German	175	40.51%	292	58.87%	420	66.56%
Romansh	156	36.11%	120	24.19%	119	18.86%
Italian	87	20.14%	73	14.72%	74	11.73%
Residents	432	100%	496	100%	631	100%

The Bevers local dialect has retained some peculiarities, such as B. the otherwise unknown in the Engadine buma saira (instead of buna saira = "good evening").

Religions and denominations

The Reformation was carried out in 1552.

Origin and nationality

Of the 704 residents (as of mid-2006) around three quarters were Swiss citizens. The largest proportion of foreigners are Italians with 68 people, followed by Germans with 33 people.

traffic

Via the Albula Railway and the Chur – Thusis line , both meter-gauge lines of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), there is a connection with the northwestern canton capital of Chur . The Albula line ends southwest of Bever in the spa and winter sports resort of St. Moritz , from where Tirano in Lombardy (Italy) can be reached via the Bernina Railway . From Bever, the Inn runs down the Engadine line of the RhB to Scuol .

in the winter
RhB train station Bever
Characteristic arch in the historic center of the village
Hotel Chesa Salis
House in the historic center of the village

Attractions

Chesa Orlandi
Salis houses

literature

Carl Camenisch : Bevers. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Beringer - Bion. Attinger, Neuenburg 1921, pp. 217, 218 ( digitized ).
Ottavio Clavuot: Bever. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 28, 2004 .
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 .
Silke Redolfi. Bever: The story of an Engadine village. Published by the Bürgergemeinde Bever, Bever 2007.

Web links

Commons : Bever GR - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Bever GR on the ETHorama platform
Official website of the municipality of Bever
Bevers on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

↑ 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 .
^ Ottavio Clavuot: Bever. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 28, 2004 .
↑ Chesa Orlandi
^ Salis houses

[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: Bever. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 28, 2004 .

[3] Chesa Orlandi

[4] Salis houses