Castiel

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Castiel
Castiel coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region : Plessure
Political community : Arosai2
Postal code : 7027
former BFS no. : 3923
Coordinates : 765 237  /  189932 coordinates: 46 ° 50 '24 "  N , 9 ° 36' 18"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and sixty-five thousand two hundred thirty-seven  /  189932
Height : 1174  m above sea level M.
Area : 5.43  km²
Residents: 126 (December 31, 2012)
Population density : 23 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.castiel.ch
Castiel

Castiel

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Castiel (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on December 31, 2012

Castiel ( [kɐʃtiə̯l] ? / I ) was, until 31 December 2012, a municipality in the former area of Schanfigg , district Plessur of the canton of Grisons in Switzerland . Audio file / audio sample

On January 1, 2013 it merged with the municipalities of Calfreisen , Langwies , Lüen , Molinis , Peist and St. Peter-Pagig to form the municipality of Arosa .

coat of arms

Blazon : St. George standing in gold with a silver nimbus, in blue armor, killing the green dragon.

The coat of arms reproduced from the community seal shows the patron saint of the Castiel church. Colors of the Ten Court League .

geography

Castiel is six kilometers (as the crow flies) east of Chur on the northern side of the Schanfigg valley . As a narrow strip, bounded in the west by the wild Castieler Tobel , the former municipal area extends from the Plessur (around 750  m ) to the ridge of the Hochwangkette , where the highest point is reached near the Tüfelsch Chopf at 2,455 meters. The village , which consists of the two districts of Oberdorf and Unterdorf , lies on a spur on the flank of the Castieler Tobel.

Of the entire former municipal area of ​​541 hectares, 266 hectares are covered by forest and wood. After all, 233 hectares are agricultural land (mostly Alpine farms). Another 32 hectares are unproductive areas (mostly mountains) and 10 hectares are urban areas.

Castiel bordered on Calfreisen , Lüen , St. Peter-Pagig , Tschiertschen-Praden and Trimmis .

history

Although it was first mentioned as Castellum in 1132 , the place has been around since 1500 BC. Settled. The place name (Latin for castle ) refers to the fortifications of the Carschlingg hill near today's village church, where settlement remains and objects from the Bronze Age , Iron Age , Roman Age and the early Middle Ages were found during the construction of the schoolhouse . In the middle of the 12th century, the Georgskirche appears in documents, after which the village was temporarily named St. Jörgen. In the three leagues , Castiel belonged to the ten-court league as the neighborhood of the Ausserschanfigg court. Around 1530, the place joined the Reformation; At the end of the 16th century, there was a transition from Romansh to German.

population

Population development
year 1850 1900 1950 2000 2005
population 72 90 92 119 128

Of the 123 residents at the end of 2004, 116 were Swiss citizens.

politics

The former mayor is Christian Patt-Stoffel (as of 2010).

economy

The rural village has also developed into a commuter residential community in recent decades.

traffic

Podium house

Castiel is located on the cantonal road from Chur to Arosa , the Schanfiggerstrasse , which has been overcoming the topographically difficult, rockfall endangered section in the Castieler Tobel with a 300 m long bridge since 2004 . The former community has been connected to the public transport network since May 15, 1940 by a post bus connection (today the Chur – Peist post bus line). Since then, the Lüen-Castiel station on the Chur – Arosa line of the Rhaetian Railway , which is far below the village, has only played a minor role. The Castielertobel Viaduct on which the Rhaetian Railway operates is named after the municipality .

Attractions

The reformed church , formerly St. Georg, a uniform late Gothic building from the beginning of the 16th century , is enthroned in a promising location at the top of the mountain spur . The most important town house in the valley is the Podestatshaus (also called Tobelhaus), built in 1619 for Podestà and Landammann Schmidt, which stands out from the surrounding Walser wooden houses with its white facade .

Below Castiel is the special forest reserve "Eichwald" consisting of sessile oaks .

literature

  • Erwin Poeschel : The art monuments of the canton of Graubünden II. The valley communities Herrschaft, Prättigau, Davos, Schanfigg, Churwalden, Albula valley. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 9). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1937. DNB 811066703 .
  • The municipalities of the canton of Graubünden. Chur / Zurich, 2003. ISBN 3-7253-0741-5 .
  • Peter Masüger: From Old Rhaeto-Romanic to "Tschalfiggerisch". In: Terra Grischuna. 48th year, issue 1, Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur 1990, ISSN  1011-5196 .
  • Christian Patt: Schanfigger words. A supplement to the Davos dictionary. Walservereinigung Graubünden publisher, Chur 1986.
  • Hans Danuser , Walser Association Graubünden (ed.): Old ways in Schanfigg. Publishing house Walser Association Graubünden, Splügen 1997.
  • E. Rud: The Schanfigg. Buchdruckerei AG Arosa, Arosa (around 1920).
  • C. Fischer: Land and people in the Schanfigg valley. Manatschal Ebner & Cie., Chur 1905.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bündner Woche, May 22, 2013, p. 35.
  2. ↑ Aroser Zeitung, August 15, 2014, p. 22 f.