Fidaz
Coordinates: 46 ° 50 ′ N , 9 ° 19 ′ E
Fidaz is a place in the Grisons Surselva at the foot of the Flimserstein and politically belongs to the municipality of Flims . The hamlet of Scheia belongs to Fidaz .
history
Fidaz was originally sparsely populated, but through immigration from Vals it became a Walser settlement in the middle of the Rhaeto-Romanic language area.
The isolated situation meant that the German language was abandoned in the course of time in favor of Sursilvan . In a toboggan from 1574, the Fidazers still bear almost exclusively German names. In 1742 Nicolin Sererhard described a bilingual Fidaz in which the pastor had to preach in German once a month. In 1805 the magazine “Der Neue Collector” wrote that the Romansh language prevailed in Flims and Fidaz and in 1868 Pastor Darms testified that this idiom was spoken almost exclusively in Fidaz.
In 1810 the sale of grazing rights to the community of Trin brought 600 guilders. From the proceeds, the Fidazers built their own school in 1837, which was operated until 1865.
On Easter Monday 1939, the Fidaz landslide destroyed the Sunnehüsli children's home in the back of the village. 18 children and teachers were killed.
Attractions
Sights of the district, which has grown strongly in terms of tourism and infrastructure in recent years, are the Casa Martin pign as a Romanesque house from the 16th century typical of the region, a spa house from around 1910 and the early medieval reformed village church . Above Fidaz lies the Bargis high valley , to the east the ruins of Belmont Castle .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Anliker: Flims. Swiss homeland books, Bündner series, volume 9. Haupt-Verlag, Bern 1961.
- ↑ Vendelin Cabernard, Markus Stoffel, Michel Monbaron: The Fidazer rock fall of 1939: analysis and simulation. SGMG, Erstfeld 2003. PDF file ( Memento from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (1.3 MB). Retrieved October 29, 2010.
Web links
- Martin Bundi: Fidaz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .