Camuns

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Camuns
Camuns Coat of Arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region : Surselva
Political community : Lumneziai2 w1
Postal code : 7113
Coordinates : 734 562  /  173 996 coordinates: 46 ° 42 '13 "  N , 9 ° 11' 54"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and thirty-four thousand five hundred and sixty-two  /  173996
Height : 1177  m above sea level M.
Website: www.lumnezia.ch
Camuns

Camuns

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Camuns (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2002

Camuns ( [kɐˈmʊns] ? / I ) was a political municipality in the Val Lumnezia in the Swiss canton of Graubünden until 2002 . The village is isolated between two Bachtobeln in the Val Lumnezia on a sun terrace high above the valley road that leads into the Valser Valley - on the right side of the valley river Glenners. The access to the village is shortly after Peiden-Bad on a foothill of the Pala da Tgiern. The townscape is characterized by an interesting division into four separate hamlets and a mountain pasture landscape, which is interspersed with many stables and agricultural buildings. Audio file / audio sample

The small community on the right-hand side of the valley slope in the Val Lumnezia (Lugnez GR) used to be a separate Alpine farming community that had to solve a variety of structural problems independently or in conjunction with neighboring communities. In 1999 the farms and their heavily fragmented land areas were modernized by means of an overall improvement. In 2002 there was regional and political cooperation with Surcasti and Tersnaus in the merged community of Suraua . Before this merger, the municipality of Camuns consisted of the hamlets of Masauns, Sutscheins, Camuns and Runs. Runs belonged to Uors together with the hamlets of Crestas and Caglia until 1903 . Camuns is now a neighborhood of the merged valley municipality of Lumnezia , from where it is politically and administratively managed today.

history

The village belonged to the parish of Vella and, as a fief of the diocese of Chur, was owned by the Barons of Belmont , who had their seat at Belmont Castle near Fidaz . In 1371, after the death of the last Belmont, the barons of Sax-Misox took over the area as a fiefdom until 1478. In 1538 Camuns bought himself out of the episcopal rights. In church terms, Camuns belonged to St. Vincenz in Pleif on the opposite side of the valley until 1528, then to Surcasti. On June 9, 1528 Camuns separated from the parish of St. Vinzens . The residents were only able to establish their own parish on May 15, 1691. The church was first built in 1597 and is dedicated to Anthony Abbot and the Evangelist John . 1697–1701 it was rebuilt on the foundations of a previous building. The wall and ceiling paintings are by Johann Jakob Riegg from 1698. Until 1851 Camuns had a neighborhood with Peiden and Cumbel .

The Catholic parish of Camuns was taken care of by the Capuchins , who were active in all of Graubünden in the name of the Counter-Reformation until 1921 . After a vacancy of 13 years, secular priests took over the parish church in 1934 . Camuns has been running a school, cultural and religious community with Uors-Peiden , Tersnaus and Surcasti since 1970 . Social life is threatened today by constant emigration. It is hoped that the political community will be linked to the valley community of Lumnezia with its administrative headquarters in Vella from 2013 onwards.

population

Population development
year 1850 1941 1990 2000
Residents 77 128 45 60

Special

From the mountain Pala da Tgiern above Camuns, an avalanche often falls in spring after snowy winters in the wild gorge Val da Camuns. Historically, on March 1, 1730, she buried a mother with her child, a house and a stable. An avalanche warning system is observing the situation today and securing the valley road from Ilanz to Vals.

Attractions

Camuns in the center of the picture. Runs to the right, Sutscheins to the left, the hamlet of Masauns below

literature

  • Erwin Poeschel : Art Monuments of the Canton of Graubünden , Volume IV, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1942
  • Adolf Collenberg: Camuns. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2016 .
  • Duri Blumenthal et al. a .: Cultural guide Val Lumnezia and Vals. Municipality of Lumnezia / Vella 2000, p. 213f.

Web links

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