La Punt-Chamues-ch

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La Punt-Chamues-ch
Coat of arms of La Punt-Chamues-ch
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region : Maloja
BFS no. : 3785i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 7522
Coordinates : 790.64 thousand  /  161 436 coordinates: 46 ° 34 '37 "  N , 9 ° 55' 34"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred ninety thousand six hundred forty  /  one hundred and sixty-one thousand four hundred and thirty-six
Height : 1687  m above sea level M.
Height range : 1680–3265 m above sea level M.
Area : 63.28  km²
Residents: 686 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 11 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.lapunt.ch
La Punt

La Punt
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La Punt-Chamues-ch (locally also written La Punt Chamues-ch , [lɐˌpʊnt tɕamuˈe: ʃtɕ] ? / I , Italian and officially Ponte-Campovasto until 1943 ) is a political municipality in the Maloja region of the Swiss canton of Graubünden . Audio file / audio sample

coat of arms

Blazon : In black on a silver (white) shield base in a wavy cut, a golden (yellow) arched bridge surmounted by a silver bell with a St. Andrew's cross

The bridge as a speaking part of the coat of arms and symbol for the connection of both parts of the community across the Inn is connected with the bell as a reference to the patron saint of the parish church of Chamues-ch, Saint Andrew .

geography

La Punt-Chamues-ch
Train station on the Bever – Scuol-Tarasp railway line with an hourly regional train
Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1964

At the foot of the Albula Pass , the Engadiner Talstrasse and the Inn (rät. En) are reached at La Punt . From here you can reach the Bernina massif upstream at the valley section of Pontresina or the famous St. Moritz via Celerina .

From the formerly independent village of La Punt (1697 m) a bridge leads over the Inn to Chamues-ch (1708 m). The Romans called it Camogascum, from which Italian became Campovasto . Both villages now form a political municipality.

The La Plaiv landscape begins at La Punt-Chamues-ch .

population

Population development
year 1850 1870 1900 1950 2000 2005 2010 2012 2014 2016
Residents 232 289 245 223 660 694 748 759 752 745

languages

The official and school language is the Upper Engadin dialect (Puter) of Rhaeto-Romanic , together with German. Until the advent of tourism, the residents all spoke Romansh. The language gave way until 1880. At that time, only 71.6% said Romansh was their mother tongue. Thereafter, the proportion rose again by the turn of the century (1900: 80%), but then fell to 69% by 1910. A value that did not change until the beginning of the Second World War (1941: 68%). Then a slight decline in Romansh began until 1970, and since the 1970s a sharp decline. Nevertheless, in 1990 48.3% and in 2000 47.6% of the residents were able to communicate in Romansh. The following table shows the development over the past decades:

Languages ​​in La Punt-Chamues-ch
languages 1980 census 1990 census 2000 census
number proportion of number proportion of number proportion of
German 156 40.00% 341 59.93% 436 66.06%
Romansh 162 41.54% 145 25.48% 136 20.61%
Italian 39 10.00% 52 9.14% 51 7.73%
Residents 390 100% 569 100% 660 100%

Religions and denominations

Philipp Gallicius (1504–1566) worked as a chaplain in La Punt from 1524 to 1526 and spread Reformation ideas. But it was not until 1561 that the Reformation was introduced into the community , since then the majority of it has been Protestant.

Origin and nationality

Of the 694 (as of the end of 2005) residents, 568 (= 81.84%) were Swiss citizens.

Personalities

  • Philipp Gallicius (1504–1566), theologian, reformer and hymn poet; as chaplain 1524–1526 in La Punt-Chamues-ch
  • Albertini family
    • Jakob Albertini (* around 1575 in La Punt; † 1624 there), doctor of both rights, was one of the 5 Reformed Graubünden who escaped the Veltliner murder in Tirano in 1620 .
    • Jakob Ulrich Albertini (1630–1697), son of Captain Ulrich, Doctor juris, published Trattato dei casi di coscienza in 1675 .
    • Jakob Ulrich Albertini (1667–1726), son of Jacob Ulrich, entered Spanish military service in 1686. In 1695 he became a colonel in the Graubünden regiment in the Spanish service.
    • Johann Baptist Albertini (1769–1831), son of Captain Jakob Ulrich, who moved to Neuwied in 1763 and joined the Herrnhut Brethren there. He entered the pedagogy in Niesky as a pupil in 1782 and the theological seminary in Barby in 1785 .
    • Christoph Albertini (* February 1776 in La Punt; † December 23, 1848 in Chur ), son of Governor Peter, President of the Church of God and Mayor of Chur.
    • Jacques Albertini (born March 21, 1861 in Punt-Chamues; †), studied in Zurich , Munich , Pisa , Jena and Berlin and received his doctorate in law in 1887; 1909 colonel of the infantry; 1913 Member of the Grand Council of the Upper Engadin district .

Attractions

The early Gothic church of San Andrea in Chamues-ch is the classic example of a Gothic mountain pilgrimage church with a slender white tower and Romanesque portal. It shows sgraffito motifs on the door knockers and has a Gothic vault. The nave and the choir have frescoes by Bernhard von Puschlav from 1505. The reformed baroque church in La Punt, built in 1680, is also worth seeing .

About the villages is in the nearby village of Madulain the castle Guardaval as former Talwarte and customs station. Beautiful old Engadine houses such as the patrician house of the Nereda-Albertini family (Chesa Merleda) from the 17th century and the Feldscher house from 1594 have survived despite all the fires, natural disasters and modern building activity.

The Albertini houses, the Sandoz house, the Bernardi-Albertini house, the Colani house, the Chesa Pirani restaurant, the kindergarten (architects: Ernst Schmid, Robert Obrist), the Acla Serlas in Val Chamuera and the Chesa Lony are also architecturally significant , the oldest still inhabited house in La Punt-Chamues-ch.

tourism

In addition to the ski school, ice skating and curling rink, there is a cross-country ski run where dogs are also allowed. An 11 km long rollerblade path leads from La Punt to S-chanf , bicycles and mountain bikes are also allowed here.

literature

  • Diego Giovanoli, with a contribution by Constant Wieser: La Punt-Chamues-ch. Settlement and buildings. Edited by the Graubünden Monument Preservation. Chur 1990, unchanged second edition 2007.
  • Erwin Poeschel : The art monuments of the canton of Graubünden III. The valley communities Räzünser Boden, Domleschg, Heinzenberg, Oberhalbstein, Upper and Lower Engadine. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 11). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1940. DNB 760079625 .
  • Constant Wieser: Punt-Chamues-ch, La. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2010 .

Web links

Commons : La Punt-Chamues-ch  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: La Punt Chamues-ch  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ According to the official municipality register of Switzerland , according to the municipality data sheet of the canton and according to the post office .
  3. ↑ See the homepage of the municipality , the municipality constitution and the place name sign .
  4. ↑ Constant Wieser: Punt-Chamues-ch, La. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2010 .
  5. ↑ Jakob Albertini on biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 9, 2017).
  6. ↑ Jakob Ulrich Albertini at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 9, 2017).
  7. ↑ Jakob Ulrich Albertini at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 9, 2017).
  8. ↑ Johann Baptist Albertini on biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 9, 2017).
  9. ↑ Christoph Albertini at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 9, 2017).
  10. ↑ Jacques Albertini at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 9, 2017).
  11. ↑ Chesa Merleda
  12. ^ Albertini houses
  13. ↑ Sandoz House
  14. ^ Bernardi-Albertini house
  15. ↑ Colani house
  16. ^ Restaurant Chesa Pirani
  17. ↑ Kindergarten
  18. ↑ Acla Serlas