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GR is the abbreviation for the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Degen (disambiguation) .

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State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Graubünden (GR)

Region :

Surselva

Political community :

Lumnezia

Postal code :

7145

former BFS no. :

3594

Coordinates :

732 409 / 174 351 coordinates: 46 ° 42 '26 " N , 9 ° 10' 13" O ; CH1903: 732,409 / 174 351

Height :

1122 m above sea level M.

Area :

6.72 km²

Residents:

234 (December 31, 2012)

Population density :

35 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.lumnezia.ch

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2013

Degen ( [ˈdeɟən] ^?^/^I , German officially until 1983 Igels ) was until December 31, 2012 a political municipality in the Val Lumnezia , in the former Surselva district of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland .

On January 1, 2013, it merged with the municipalities of Cumbel , Lumbrein , Morissen , Suraua , Vignogn , Vella and Vrin to form the new municipality of Lumnezia .

local community

The former municipality has a mild location in an inner-alpine, sunny transverse valley facing south. The fractions Rumein , Vattiz and Prada belong to the former municipality . The main sources of income for the population are tourism, trade and agriculture. The Val Lumnezia Open Air, which takes place every summer, is one of the largest music events in the canton of Graubünden. The Maiensäss landscape, the alpine e-bike road network and the winter cross-country skiing slopes on the grounds of the former municipality are also attractive for tourists.

The Catholic parish church of St. Mary of the Assumption, the chapel of St. Sebastian in the open field west of the village, the chapel of St. Viktor on a hill in the south and the Antonius chapel in Rumein and the chapel of St. Nicholas and Valentine in Vattiz are of cultural and historical interest.

Above Degen, at an altitude of 1,300 meters, is the near-natural swimming lake Davos-Munts, which was created in 1999 and is located in a former fluvio-glacial basin of a late Ice Age basin with an adjacent high moor and, thanks to the resistance of nature conservationists in cooperation with the municipal authorities, as one in 1998 the first artificial bathing lakes in the Alps was created with the aim of strengthening the tourist infrastructure, which proved to be a success.

The neighborhoods of Degen are Vella , Vignogn , Suraua and Obersaxen .

The Benedictine priest and polymath Flurin Maissen lived in Rumein in the second half of the 20th century.

population

Population development
year	1808	1850	1900	1950	2000	2012
Residents	232	255	214	323	247	234

By residents in 2000, the 74% have at the Swiss Federal census in Grison Romanesque idiom Sursilvan given as bestbeherrschte language, 21% German and 4 Albanian. Since 1992 the population has decreased by 5%.