Chesa Planta (Samedan)
The Chesa Planta ( , Chesa in Rhaeto-Romanic in the idiom Puter for "house") is a listed building in Samedan in the Upper Engadin . It is located northwest of Samedan train station in Mulins 2 .
history
The Chesa Planta was built in 1595 by the von Salis family as a representative patrician house with a curved hipped roof in the style of a noble Engadine house. In 1760 there was an extension to a semi-detached house. In 1817 the building became the property of the Sameden Von Planta family . This transferred the building in 1943 to a Foundation Fundaziun Planta-Samedan .
The district court of the Upper Engadin district met in the Chesa Planta until 2015.
Todays use
The Upper Engadin cultural archive is housed in the Chesa Planta . A large number of bequests, photographs, books, plans and herbarium sheets bear witness to the history of the Upper Engadine culture. The house is also designed as a museum for the home decor of the 18th and 19th centuries. The Chesa Planta also houses a Romansh library that has existed since 1946.
Web links
- Official website of the Chesa Planta
- Upper Engadin cultural archive
- The Chesa Planta on graubuendenkultur.ch
Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '3.8 " N , 9 ° 52' 18.5" E ; CH1903: seven hundred and eighty-six thousand six hundred thirty-five / 156570