Litzirüti (Schanfigg)
The Litzirüti (also: Rüti ) is a 1450 m high former fraction of the former Grisons municipality Langwies im Schanfigg and is located 4 km northeast of Arosa in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland . The Langwieser municipality began immediately after the valley narrow, behind which the Schanfigg widens to the Arosa basin. Litzirüti has been part of the Arosa municipality since the beginning of 2013.
History and infrastructure
The village was originally settled by Walser people and consisted only of individual farms. Today the town with around 50 inhabitants lives almost exclusively from summer and especially winter tourism . The social and tourist center of the Litzirüti has always been the Landgasthof Rütihof. The Litzirüti lies in the middle of the forest learning path and the Langwies - Arosa railway hiking trail.
As in all communities in Schanfigg , the official language is German , the colloquial language is Walser German .
In terms of transport, the Litzirüti is developed by the Arosa Railway , which opened on December 12, 1914 and was incorporated into the Rhaetian Railway in 1942. With the opening in 1914, the Litzirüti train station was also inaugurated. It has two through tracks and a stump track.The station building is kept in the typical chalet style of the region. In addition to the railway, the village is also accessible with the cantonal connection road Chur - Arosa, the Schanfiggerstrasse . There used to be an Arosa - Litzirüti bobsleigh run on the road in winter . Today the Litzirüti is a crowd puller every year during the Arosa ClassicCar hill climb .
On June 4, 1935, unusually heavy snowmelt caused the dam of the Unter Prätschsee to break . The Seebach poured with great force towards Litzirüti. Boulders the size of small houses were washed out of the ravine and large spruce trees drove up to the valley. There was considerable damage to houses, stables, as well as to the canton road and the railway line. As a result, an international relief campaign was launched that lasted from July 1st to October 15th, 1935 and had 172 volunteers from 14 nations help clean up the Langwies population and the Arosa fire brigade . There had not been a comparable event at this point since 1768. The municipality of Langwies then built extensive water protection structures in the Litzirüti.
Since the end of February 2016, a cantonal transit center for asylum seekers has been located in the former holiday home "Valbella" . The center can accommodate 104 people. At the beginning of May 2016, asylum seekers from nine nations were there, mainly young men.
Below the Litzirüti there is an Arosa Energie hydropower plant on the Plessur that supplies the entire valley with electricity.
etymology
The name is made up of the word litzi , which means "located in the shade", and the word Rüti , a term for cleared land. Litzirüti means "cleared land located in the shade". The name fits perfectly to the place situated in a narrow valley. One kilometer to the northeast, where the valley widens a little, a village is aptly called Sunnenrüti .
literature
- Region Schanfigg-Arosa , in: Terra Grischuna , 59th year, issue 1, Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur 2000, ISSN 1011-5196 .
- Hans Danuser / Walser-Vereinigung Graubünden (ed.): Old ways in Schanfigg , Verlag Walser-Vereinigung Graubünden, Splügen 1997.
- Hans Danuser, Ruedi Homberger: AROSA and the Schanfigg , self-published by Danuser / Homberger, Arosa 1988.
- C. Fischer: Land and people in the valley Schanfigg , Manatschal Ebner & Cie., Chur 1905.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Video clip of the Arosa – Litzirüti bobsleigh race (around 1930)
- ↑ Hans Danuser: Arosa - as it was then (1928-1946) , vol. 3, self-published Danuser, Arosa 1999, p. 121 ff.
- ↑ Aroser Zeitung of February 12, 2016, pp. 1–3.
- ↑ Aroser Zeitung, May 6, 2016, pp. 1–3.
- ↑ Origin Litzi
- ↑ Meaning of Rüti
Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ' N , 9 ° 42' E ; CH1903: 772 849 / 185,539