La Serra

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La Serra
View from the north

View from the north

Creation time : 13./14. century
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Zernez
Geographical location 46 ° 41 '52 "  N , 10 ° 6' 33.6"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 41 '52 "  N , 10 ° 6' 33.6"  E ; CH1903:  804 230  /  one hundred seventy-five thousand three hundred and seventeen
Height: 1510  m
La Serra (Canton of Graubünden)
La Serra

La Serra was a dam above Zernez in the Engadin in the Swiss canton of Graubünden . The ruins are located southeast of the village on the pass road. The name is derived from the Rhaeto-Romanic word serrar (in the idiom Vallader = lock up, lock up).

The dam served to ward off enemies who wanted to penetrate from the south over the Ofen Pass into the Engadine. There are no documents about the construction or the time of origin. The castle map of Switzerland considers a date of origin in the 13th or 14th century to be possible; it is also conceivable that it was built during the Swabian War around 1495.

Only a few remains of the originally 130-meter-long barrier wall that stretched up from the Spöl River to the slope. The position of the gate can no longer be determined. The tower was located directly on the old pass road and has three key notches on each floor on the enemy side facing the street .

La Serra was hardly ever used as a residential tower, but rather as quarters for a guards during wartime. The remains of the wall to the north of the tower are believed to have come from a later trading station. A report for the attention of Emperor Maximilian indicates damage during the Swabian War in 1499. He confirms that Austrian troops had agreed on the clauses of Zernetz and the Scharl in grunnd .

Ulrich Campell described La Serra as an old structure around 1570 . The original system was renewed during the Grisons turmoil around 1624 when the Schauenstein regiment was relocated to the Engadine. After that it was abandoned and fell apart. During the construction of the new pass road and gravel mining, parts of the weir system were destroyed in the 20th century. 1996-98 the tower was secured, the attic was rebuilt.

gallery

  • View from the south

  • Mountain side with remains of the wall of the Sust

  • Inside

literature

  • Otto P. Clavadetscher, Werner Meyer : The castle book of Graubünden . Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-280-01319-4
  • Fritz Hauswirth: Castles and Palaces of Switzerland , Volume 9.Neptun-Verlag Kreuzlingen, 1973
  • Castle map of Switzerland, Federal Office of Topography, 2007 edition

Web links

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