Safien

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Safien
Safien Coat of Arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region : Surselva
Political community : Safientali2
Postal code : 7107
former BFS no. : 3651
Coordinates : 743 604  /  171 858 coordinates: 46 ° 40 '57 "  N , 9 ° 18' 57"  O ; CH1903:  743604  /  one hundred and seventy-one thousand eight hundred fifty-eight
Height : 1315  m above sea level M.
Area : 100.58  km²
Residents: 282 (December 31, 2012)
Population density : 3 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.safien.ch
Safien Square

Safien Square
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2013

Safien (in the local dialect: [ ˈsɔːfjə ] or [ ˈsɔːfjæ ]; Rhaeto-Romanic Stussavgia ? / I ) was a municipality in the Safien Valley until December 31, 2012 . It is located in the district of the same name (including Tenna as well as Safien ) in the former Surselva district in the Swiss canton of Graubünden . Audio file / audio sample

On January 1, 2013, it merged with the municipalities of Valendas , Versam and Tenna to form the new municipality of Safiental .

The origin of both the German and the Romance name form is unclear.

coat of arms

Blazon : In red a cross made of silver (white) and black

After the simplified banner motif of the Safien landscape, which became the coat of arms of the district, with changed colors.

geography

The villages and hamlets of Neukirch, Safien Platz, Camanaboda, Camana, Bäch and Thalkirch belonged to the former municipality of Safien .

history

Safien is first mentioned in a document in 1219 in the form of Stosavia . Bronze Age and Roman finds indicate early settlement of the area. Between 1300 and 1310 the first Walsers from the Rhine Forest immigrated to the area previously cultivated mainly as the Alps by Romans . Little by little they settled the whole valley and built their farms on the areas they cleared. The manorial rule over most of the Safien valley belonged to the Domleschger monastery of Cazis . The Reformation was introduced in 1526.

Until 1851 Safien, which is attested as an independently acting community with ammann and jury as early as 1362, formed its own judicial community in the Thusis High Court. The construction of the road to Versam from 1882 to 1885 meant that the Safien Valley, whose farmers used to sell their cattle mainly via the markets in northern Italy, increasingly turned to the north. In the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century there was a strong migration.

population

Population development
year 1803 1850 1900 1950 2000 2012
Residents 770 685 455 453 308 282

Local museum

In Camanaboda, one of the highest settlements in the Safien Valley, inhabited all year round, at almost 1800  m above sea level. In the middle of other old Walser houses is the Althus local history museum .

The focus of this museum is the house itself and its facilities as a residential building with a Stubä (parlor), Chuchi (kitchen), Chòltchammerä (milk cellar), Schithus (wood storage room ), Spiicher (bedroom) and Chäller (cellar).

traffic

The railway connection with the Versam-Safien station is in the Rhine Gorge on the Reichenau-Tamins – Disentis / Mustér railway line . The Safien valley is accessible with a post bus line.

Attractions

literature

  • Jürg Simonett: Safien. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2016 .
  • Mattli Hunger, place and field names from Safien and Tenna , 2013, ISBN 978-3-033-03744-1 .
  • Barbara Steinmann, Elisabeth Bardill, Maria Hunger-Fry, Safiental - Ruinaulta, Vom Safierberg zur Rheinschlucht, Verlag Terra Grischuna, Chur 2008, ISBN 978-3-7298-1152-2 .
  • Hans and Leonhard Bandli, Im Safiental , Walservereinigung Graubünden, 2002, ISBN 978-3-905241-24-2 .
  • Konrad Buchli, Stories from the Mountains, Memories of a Safier, Walservereinigung Graubünden, 2005.
  • Mattli Hunger, Ärdenkt und ärzellt, Sòòfier Gschichtä vo äsiä und hüt, Walservereinigung Graubünden, 2008, ISBN 978-3-909210-02-2 .

Web links

Commons : Safien  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andres Kristol, Safien GR (Hinterrhein) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG) , Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 779.
  2. ↑ a b Jürg Simonett: Safien. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 8, 2016 , accessed June 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Machine hall of the Zervreila power station
  4. ↑ Forestry workshop