Duonna Lupa

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The Tschlin Duonna Lupa fountain

Duonna Lupa (in the Rhaeto-Romanic idiom Vallader Duonna = woman and Lupa as first name) is a legendary figure in Tschlin in the Graubünden Lower Engadine .

Lore

According to tradition, on July 18, 1499, during the Swabian War, she used a ruse to prevent the occupation and sacking of Tschlin by the numerically far superior Habsburg troops. While the village population - mostly women and children, as the men were either in military service or hid for fear of the Habsburg superiority - celebrated a funeral in the church of San Plasch , Tyrolean spies penetrated (according to another version it was a heavily armed vanguard) into the house of Duonna Lupa, who was preparing the funeral meal (Rhaeto-Romanic: la palorma ).

With a presence of mind, the woman claimed that the opulent meal was intended for the Graubünden and federal troops who were currently on the march. The messengers were shocked by this news and fled to Tal. Some of them were killed by the Tschliners who were chasing after them and had been summoned by Duonna Lupa. Those who found their way reported to the commanding colonel about the alleged armed forces up in Tschlin. Thereupon he renounced armed forces and spared Tschlin in contrast to all other villages in the valley.

Effects

Church custom

Even today (as of 2012) in Tschlin, in contrast to all other Lower Engadine villages (with the exception of Scuol ), women are allowed to sit in the church on the right, i.e. on the honor side, and come first to the Lord's Supper .

Fountain

In honor of Duonna Lupa, two fountains were dedicated in Chur near the city ​​theater at the Untertor and in 1960 in her home village in front of the Reformed Church of San Plasch.

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