Evangelical Association Gruob and the surrounding area

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The Evangelical Association Gruob and the surrounding area ( Rhaeto-Romanic in the idiom Sursilvan Uniun evangelica dalla Foppa e contuorn ) is an organ within the Evangelical Reformed Regional Church of Graubünden and within this the Colloquium Ob dem Wald . Your area of ​​activity is the Gruob in the anterior and central Surselva in Graubünden . The Safien Valley was also traditionally included.

history

the reformed rectory in Sagogn

The Evangelical Association was founded in 1919. The formation of the association was based on the endeavor to counter political Catholicism , which has always been strong in the Surselva and found expression, for example, in the Lavina nera . Ilanz had been reformed since the Reformation , but received a large influx of Roman Catholic new citizens , among other things through the construction of the railway . At the opening of the Ilanz - Disentis section of the RhB - Reichenau-Tamins-Disentis / Mustér railway on August 1, 1912, only a public Catholic inauguration took place on the part of the church due to a unilateral invitation, which made the Reformed people aware of the danger of minorization. One of the main concerns of the Evangelical Association was education and the school system, also here in defense of the advance of Catholic denominational schools to Ilanz and into the areas of the Gruob, which had been reformed up to then.

Localities

The Hotel Rätia was run by the Rätia cooperative and was owned by the Evangelical Association until it was sold to a Luven family at the beginning of the 21st century . It was a meeting point for liberals and liberals .

President

  • 1919–1943 Emil Camenisch
  • 1944–1955 Hercli Bertogg
  • 1956–1969 Conradin Bonorand
  • 1970–1974 Christian Friedrich Kober
  • 1975–1982 Ulrich Caflisch
  • 1983–1984 Gustav Etter
  • 1985–1987 Sönke Claussen
  • 1988–1989 Thomas Widmer
  • 1990–1996 Felix Meier
  • 1997–2001 Andreas Schiltknecht
  • 2002-2004 David Gredig
  • 2005–2011 Jan-Andrea Bernhard
  • 2011-2014 Nora Blatter
  • 2014-2017 David Last

present

With the spirit of ecumenism since the 1960s, the focus of the association's activities shifted to the maintenance of general Christian ideas in the area of ​​tension between modernity and secularism . The Evangelical Association holds public annual meetings in the Ilanz Town Hall in November or December on topics from the field of faith and society. The events are non-denominational and are aimed at a broad audience, especially the teaching staff in the region. The association is headed by a five-person board.