Cadi
Cadi (feminine, ) describes the landscape on both sides of the Rhine around Disentis in the upper Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .
location
The Cadi covers the region between the Oberalp Pass in the west and Breil / Brigels in the east. The name is derived from Casa Dei, the "House of God" and refers to the Disentis Monastery .
The region is divided into two areas: Above the Russeiner Tobel lies the core area, the Sursassiala ("above the stone") with Disentis / Mustér , Medel (Lucmagn) and Tujetsch , "below the stone" lies the Sutsassiala with Sumvitg , Trun and Breil / Brigels. After 1185 the Petersbach formed the eastern border of the Cadi east of Tavanasa .
language
The main language in the Cadi is the Rhaeto-Romanic idiom Sursilvan .
history
The Cadi arose in 765 through the will of Bishop Tello from the former territory of the Disentis Abbey in the rule of Churrätien .
1285 which entered church people of Cadi first time with its own seal; the first Landammann is documented in 1371. In 1401 the judicial community acquired the umbrella bailiwick over the monastery. In 1803 the Cadi was dissolved as monastic territory, but remained unchanged until 1851 as the “Cumin grond Disentis” judicial community. In 1854 the four cuorts (administrative courts, lower courts ) were dissolved and incorporated into the political communities.
literature
- Adolf Collenberg: Cadi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Coordinates: 46 ° 42 '20.2 " N , 8 ° 51' 47" E ; CH1903: seven hundred and eight thousand nine hundred twenty-four / 173 699