Casaccia

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Graubünden (GR)

Region :

Maloja

Political community :

Bregaglia

Postal code :

7605

Coordinates :

771 336 / 140181 coordinates: 46 ° 23 '28 " N , 9 ° 39' 59" O ; CH1903: seven hundred seventy-one thousand three hundred and thirty-six / 140181

Height :

1458 m above sea level M.

Residents:

59 (December 31, 1970)

Website:

www.comunedibregaglia.ch

Casaccia, view down the valley

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 1971

Casaccia is a village in Bergell in Graubünden .

geography

The street village Casaccia is the uppermost village in Bergell. It is 1458 m above sea level. M. on a small plain at the foot of the Malojapass on the Orlegna and near its confluence with the Maïra . The panoramic high path to Soglio begins in Casaccia .

history

Casaccia was first mentioned in 1160 as a cassache . Due to its location at the junction of the Maloja and Septimer passes , Casaccia was an important transit station until the 19th century. The ruins of the medieval Turraccia tower above the village are a reminder of this function .

The former hospice stood near the ruins of the former pilgrimage church of San Gaudenzio above the village on the pass road. It is mentioned in a document in 1336, but is likely to be much older. It was moved to the Cunvent village after 1520 and served as an inn for the Maloja and Septimer passes.

The village was devastated several times by the Orlegna flowing down from the Malojapass.

Casaccia had its own municipality until 1971, after which it was a fraction of the Vicosoprano municipality . Since the beginning of 2010 Casaccia has been part of the municipality of Bregaglia, which includes all the villages in the valley .

coat of arms

Blazon : "In black, a fallen silver (white) rafter , raised by a silver horseshoe ."

The fallen rafter refers to the fork in the road between Septimer and Maloja; the horseshoe stands for the mule traffic over the passes. The colors are The ones of the church Federal .

population

Population development
year	1850	1880	1900	1910	1950	1970
Residents	96	70	77	96	88	59

Attractions

In the middle of the village is the reformed church Casaccia
so-called Convento
Church ruins of San Gaudenzio

Church ruins of San Gaudenzio , during the restoration work in 2012
Turraccia ruins
Village center

literature

Adolf Collenberg: Casaccia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2nd December 2016 .
Adolf Collenberg: Malojapass. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 15, 2008 .
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History . Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 529-530.
Erwin Poeschel : The art monuments of the canton of Graubünden. Volume V. The valleys on the Vorderrhein, Part II. The valleys of Schams, Rheinwald, Avers, Münstertal, Bergell (= Swiss art monuments. Volume 14). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1943, ISBN 978-3-906131-20-7 .
Tomaso Semadeni: Casaccia. In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland , Volume 2: Brusino - Caux. Attinger, Neuenburg 1921, p. 502 ( digitized version ).
Jürg Simonett: Septimer pass. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 9, 2016 .

Web links

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

Website of the municipality of Bregaglia
Casaccia on the ETHorama platform
Casaccia on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

↑ Orlegna on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
^ Adolf Collenberg: Casaccia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2nd December 2016 .
↑ so-called Convento

[1] Orlegna on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node

[2] Adolf Collenberg: Casaccia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2nd December 2016 .

[3] so-called Convento