Sagogn

Sagogn
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Graubünden (GR)
Region :	Surselva
BFS no. :	3581
Postal code :	7152
Coordinates :	738 675  /  183697 coordinates: 46 ° 47 '24 "  N , 9 ° 15' 18"  O ; CH1903:  738,675  /  183697
Height :	779  m above sea level M.
Height range :	630–1208 m above sea level M.
Area :	6.92  km²
Residents:	719 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	104 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.sagogn.ch
View from the west
Location of the municipality

Sagogn ( [sɐˈgɔɲ] ^{? / I} ; German and previously officially Sagens ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Graubünden . It is located in the Surselva region .

Surname

Sagogn was first mentioned in 765 in the will of Bishop Tello as Secanio . At least 14 other name variations are known. The name Sigens has been used since 1347 and has survived for a long time. Before 1943 (the exact time has not been recorded) the municipality was officially called Sagens (with an emphasis on the second syllable), since then the Rhaeto-Romanic name Sagogn has been used (see also list of name changes of political municipalities in Switzerland ).

The meaning of the name is - despite several explanations - uncertain. One of the interpretations refers to the Latin word siccum, which means "dry land". In the case of Sagogn, this could indicate the meteorological peculiarity that rain clouds are often drawn away to the north due to the topographical location and Sagogn is thus somewhat drier than the surrounding communities.

geography

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1957

Sagogn lies between Ilanz and Flims on the edge of a plain belonging to the Gruob , which was created around 10,000 years ago by the Flims landslide . That is why the soils consist mainly of lime from the Middle Ages and are rather poor in nutrients. During the landslide, the Vorderrhein was dammed and a lake formed, on the bottom of which lay the Sagogn plain. The lake drained away after about 1000 years. The sediment deposits that he left behind formed a more nutrient-rich layer on the limestone soil, which explains the fertile vegetation in Sagogn.

To the south, Sagogn is bounded by the Vorderrhein, which flows into the Ruinaulta and thus forms a natural link to the neighboring communities Castrisch (Polish community Ilanz / Glion ) and Versam (Polish community Safien ). To the east extends a forest, the Uaul Grond (advises for "large forest"), which covers a good two thirds of the municipality. In the west Sagogn borders on the municipality of Schluein , in the steep, wooded north slope Sagogn borders on Laax and Falera .

The only notable body of water that flows through Sagogn is the Ual da Mulin , which flows from Laax through the Val Mulin into the Vorderrhein. It separates the settlement area from the Uaul Grond. Between the settlement area and the Ual da Mulin there is an approx. 300 meter wide, westwardly inclined and not overbuilt slope called Bregl da Heida .

To the east of the Val Mulin are some cleared areas, especially along the Rhine. The humus layer is much thinner here, however, and the limestone below is clearly visible on several steep walls.

Allocation of space

• Settlement: 9.4%
• Agriculture 19.1%
• Forest 59%
• Unproductive 12.5%

Settlements

In addition to today's main sealing area , which includes the two parts of the village Vitg dadens (inner town) in the west and Vitg dado (outer town) in the east (Rhaeto-Romanic for Innerdorf and Ausserdorf), there are also small settlements in cleared areas in the Uaul Grond called Planezzas that are not inhabited all year round near the Laax settlement Salums, Bargaus and Zir near the train station where the Ual da Mulin flows into the Vorderrhein. Foppas and Tuora are both in the forest and can only be reached from Sagogn via a four-kilometer-long natural road that requires a permit.

Another settlement Mulin (Rhaeto-Romanic for "mill") was next to the old transit road from Trin to the Bündner Oberland. There was a labor and a sawmill, and later a small power station. It was abandoned around 1920. One of the millstones is now on display at the old town hall.

According to tradition, two naturally formed small caves were only inhabited for a short time during the outbreak of the plague around 1350. The larger of these is called Cuvel . They are located on the left bank of the Rhine and can only be reached from the west via Dislas.

climate

Sagogn has a mild and dry climate that is beneficial for agricultural use. The average amount of precipitation is between 900 and 1000 mm / year, in the communities around Sagogn it is slightly more, namely 1000 to 1300 mm / year. Thanks to the southern orientation of the slopes and the large number of hours of sunshine, fruits can also be grown in Sagogn that usually do not grow at these altitudes, such as kiwi , nectarines or mirabelle plums . It is also known that there were vines in Sagogn, as is evident from the will of Bishop Tello . The appearance of Sagogn is adorned by a belt of numerous standard fruit trees between the Plaun and the settlements, even if the belt of trees has visibly decreased in the last century.

If all suitable roofs in the community for the production of solar power were largely covered with photovoltaic modules, there would be a potential of approx. 7.78 GWh per year. Assuming that a household consumes around 4,500 kWh per year, all around 600 households (including holiday apartments) could be supplied with solar power without any problems. That is why the municipality started the Sulegl per Sagogn project in 2018 , during which an additional 250 kW peak power was installed.

Sagogn
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     4th -4     5 -3     10 1     14th 3     19th 8th     22nd 11     24 13     23 13     19th 9     15th 5     9 1     4th -3 Temperature in ° C Source:

Average monthly temperatures for Sagogn Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 4th 5 10 14th 19th 22nd 24 23 19th 15th 9 4th O 14th Min. Temperature (° C) -4 -3 1 3 8th 11 13 13 9 5 1 -3 O 4.5 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 9 10.5 12 13.5 15th 16 15.5 14th 12.5 11 9.5 8.5 O 12.3 Source:

history

Archaeological finds on what is now the Schiedberg castle ruins indicate that Sagogn was settled as early as the Middle Bronze Age (approx. 1500 BC).

Since then, various documents testify to its importance as an ecclesiastical and cultural center. One of the first and therefore most important documents is the will of Bishop Tello from 765, who bequeathed his possessions, most of which were in Sagogn, to the Disentis Monastery. In this will, in addition to the manor house with accessories, farms, fields, meadows, vineyards and Alps are listed, which were mainly in the inner village, in the courtyards around Sagogn and on Bregl da Heida. It is known that Bregl da Haida had a manor house and a Carolingian hall church with a horseshoe-shaped apse, consecrated to Saint Columban. There are also traces of old buildings and irrigation channels, as can also be found in Flims near the Conn-Bächli .

The first parts of the Catholic Church of the Assumption date back to the 5th century. It is one of the best preserved, fully decorated church buildings of the early high baroque north of the Alps. Sagogn, the most important place in the region at the time, was the scene of the Sagens trade in the Middle Ages in 1701 . As recently as 1835, Sagogn exceeded Ilanz (574 inhabitants) in terms of population with 584 inhabitants.

In addition to the Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and the Reformed Church and the Church of St. Columban, which no longer exists, another former church is suspected to be in the Sumbismins district.

population

Sagogn has around 300 households and just as many holiday apartments.

Population development
year	1803	1835	1850	1900	1950	1970	1980	2000	2009	2016
Residents	399	584	535	405	492	383	470	597	673	702

Origin and nationality

At the end of 2016 there were 702 inhabitants in the municipality; of these, 682 (= 89.2%) were Swiss citizens.

languages

The majority of the population speaks Romansh , namely the idiom Sursilvan (see also the traditional Romansh- speaking area of ​​Graubünden ). According to the Graubünden Municipal Law and the Graubünden Language Law, Sagogn counts as a Rhaeto-Romanic municipality.

Religions

Sagogn has been a denominational parity village with a Roman Catholic majority and an Evangelical Reformed minority since the 16th century - an otherwise rare phenomenon in Graubünden . Both faiths have their own church.

coat of arms

Blazon : In gold (yellow) the black Saint Columban with a silver nimbus , bag and walking stick, the right hand raised to take an oath

Coat of arms after the former patron of the early medieval parish church on Bregl da Heida on the eastern edge of the village. Until the 19th century, the community had a mace as its coat of arms, which was humorously called Litgun dumplings because of its appearance .

politics

The highest body of the city is formed by the voters in their entirety, who decide on business in a community meeting. Sagogn is a unified municipality, d. H. the school community is integrated into the political community.

The 5 members of the community board are elected for a term of office of three years. The community president has been Hans Peter Casutt since 2012 (on the community board since 2009). The board includes Thomas Candrian (2009, Vice-President), Gion Cavelti (2012), Martina Beeli (2012) and Georg Felix-Candrian (2018). No member of the community council is a member of a political party.

The supervisory body is the GPK, which is composed of 3 members and constitutes itself.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Sagogn no longer owns any industrial operations and only a few small businesses, which is due to its remote location. The majority of the working population therefore has their job in the surrounding area, with only around 50 jobs in the village.

At the eastern exit of the doft in front of the Val Mulin there was still a sawmill and other industrial operations in the middle of the last century, which, however, have moved or ceased to be in the neighboring community due to their less central location.

gastronomy

Sagogn has three restaurants (Golfrestaurant Vista, Ustria sil Platz and Stiva Grischuna), of which Ustria sil Platz is currently closed, as well as a Besenbeiz Café Zwischenstation & Handwerk at the RhB train station.

In 1996, Hilda Veraguth , top chef at the now closed restaurant da Veraguth Carnetg in Sagogn, was honored with the award for Chef of the Year. The same honor was given to Andreas Caminada in 2008 , who grew up in Sagogn and now has 18 Gault Millau points and 3 Michelin stars.

Agriculture

Only 2 farms from Sagogn still manage the usable area of ​​around 130 hectares of meadows and fields, the majority of which is cultivated by foreign farmers. A considerable part of the cultural area is made up of the golf course. Today, wine is grown again in Sagogn.

The municipality of Sagogn also has an alp in the ski area of ​​the White Arena in Laax, which is loaded every year and in which alpine cheese is made. Another alp of the Sagogn municipality is located in the area of ​​the Vals municipality, the Alp Bidanätsch.

tourism

Above Laax is the LAAX ski area with more than 235 kilometers of slopes and 29 lifts. It extends over the municipal areas of Flims and Falera and is also accessible from these municipalities. (see also Bergbahnen Flims-Laax-Falera )

Sagogn has had a golf course since 2008, which is the largest employer besides the political community. The opening of the 18-hole championship course, par 72, with a total length of approx. 5900 meters took place in 2009.

Sagogn also has an attractive network of hiking trails and, in winter, a cross-country ski run, which is operated by the municipality and the Selvaclub association.

traffic

Sagogn has a remarkably good connection to the transport network. For private transport there are 3 connections to Schluein (towards Ilanz), Laax (towards Chur) and a partially paved road to Valendas. The municipality of Sagogn is connected to the public transport network by the Ilanz - Laax post bus line , which offers an hourly bus connection to Ilanz / Laax with 5 stops. She also shares the Valendas-Sagogn stop of the Rhaetian Railway with Valendas . To the west of the stop, the Valendas-Sagogn Rhine bridge , which was completely renovated in 2017, connects the two villages of Sagogn and Valendas.

The Rheinschlucht Bus-Taxi has also been connecting Sagogn via Valendas with Brün since 2018 .

education

In 2013 the voters of the community decided to build a new schoolhouse - an unusual decision in times of emigration and decline in children. However, the old schoolhouse, built in 1953, did not meet the requirements either technically or in terms of space, and the encouragingly growing number of pupils forced Sagogn to expand or build a new one. The schoolhouse, which was occupied at the end of 2015, is a striking point in the appearance of the community and is based on the striking church tower and the Casti Aspermont with the steep roof wings.

Culture and sport

The population is active in the numerous associations in the fields of culture, music, sport and business:

• Sagognturissem, the successor organization of the tourist office that has been integrated into the Sagogn municipality since 2017
• Pro Sagogn (until 2006 Cerchel Cultural Sagogn)
• Uniun da musica Sagogn (brass music since 1958, initiator Martin Bundi , beginnings with Valendas, from 1961 alone) [14]
• Musica giuvenila Aspermont (youth music since 1994, initiators Silvio Lechmann and Michaela Lombris) [15]
• Chor viril (male choir, dissolved in 2016 due to lack of members)
• Chor-baselgia catolic (catholic church choir)
• Chor-baselgia evangelic (church choir ref.)
• Selvaclub Sagogn (since 1971, cross-country skiing club)
• Uniun da gimnastica da dunnas (women's gymnastics club)
• Uniun da dunnas (since 1982, organized in the uniun da dunnauns e mattauns until 1974)
• Uniun da giuventetgna (young team, reactivated as compagnia de mats since 1928, merged with the uniun da dunnauns e mattauns in 1974) [www.giuventetgna.info]
• Uniun da teater (theater association, emerged from Uniun da giuventetgna in 2004)
• Uniun da pescadurs (fishing association)

as well as countless other associations.

graveyards

Cemeteries can be found at the two churches of the Catholic and the Reformed Church and are the property of the political community. The Rhaeto-Romanic writer Gion Cadieli is buried in the Catholic cemetery .

Sights, leisure and occasions

See also : List of cultural assets in Sagogn

building

• The Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin is one of the best-preserved, fully decorated church buildings of the early high baroque north of the Alps.
• In the upper part of the village stands the reformed church with the striking onion helmet.
• On the eastern edge of the village, on Bregl da Heida , there was an early medieval Carolingian hall church with a horseshoe-shaped apse in the 7th century . It was the Columbans Church mentioned in Bishop Tello's will in 765
  → Main article : Bregl da Heida
• The Castelli or Casti Aspermont house goes back to a late medieval residential tower .
• Sogn Giacun Chapel , a small vaulted chapel near the Crap Signina viewing platform (part of the municipality of Laax).
• Casa sil crap, probably the oldest preserved house in the community and Casa paterna of the Candrian family .
• The Schiedberg Castle bears witness to the village of the historical significance. Schiedberg Castle was the seat of the Barons of Sagogn in the 12th century .
• In 2015 Giuventetgna Sagogn presented a wooden sound column with the name Tschep da Tun to commemorate 1250 years since the village was first mentioned in a document . The Tschep is now at the birthplace of the writers Gion Cadieli and Lothar Deplazes, who are represented on the Tschep.

Nature, leisure

• The Ruinaulta begins in the east of the village .
• On June 21, 2015, the covered viewing platform Crap Signina was inaugurated on the Crap Gries in the forest above Bregl da Heida on the old path to Laax .
• The Cuvel lies on the Vorderrhein, but is difficult to reach.
• Plaun pigniel, a children's playground near the village, beautifully located in the middle of a forest
• Spaleus, between Bregl da Heida and the Mulin spring area with a natural biotope
• Plaun, the plain in front of the village with many opportunities for walking
• Cresta munteina, a striking hill in the middle of the Plaun plain
• Crap, a glacier boulder in the middle of the Plaun plain
• Platta Pussenta, the place where the four communities Schluein, Sagogn, Laax and Falera border each other. A megalith with circular carvings is to the east of it in the area of ​​Laax, another stone slab shows the remains of some artificially created bowls.
• Mulin, a former settlement from which the buildings can still be guessed
• Orchid path with 24 rare orchids

Occasions Well-known occasions are:

• Sagognturissem welcome aperitif on New Year's Day
• Parada da Sontgilcrest e da Perdanonaza, the procession of the Catholic Church accompanied by the young men on Corpus Christi and on the second Sunday of October
• Alp withdrawal to the autumn market
• Concerts of the music and choral societies

Trivia

• The first professionally made feature film in Romansh, Amur senza fin, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2018, was largely shot in Sagogn.
• Until the end of the 1980s, the Surselva landfill was located east of the Sagogn community, behind the community's current recycling center. The decay of the waste deposited here generates flammable gas, which is burned in a special facility. For this reason, the space is reduced and cannot be used for other purposes.

Persons and genders

Personalities from Sagogn

• Baltasar Bundi (1786–1869): officer in the service of France
• Mathias Padrun (1809–1891): teacher and school inspector in southern Russia
• Gion Martin Darms (1823–1907): Reformed theologian, pastor, hymn book editor, song translator and choir founder
• Emil Camenisch (1874–1958): Reformed pastor and church historian
• Gion Cadieli (1876–1952): Catholic pastor and Romansh writer
• Martin Bundi (1932–2020): National Councilor (1975–1995) and 1986 National Council President and historian
• Lothar Deplazes (1939–2015): Catholic pastor and Romansh writer, received the literary prize of the Canton of Graubünden
• Hilda Veraguth : Chef of the Year 1996
• Hans Niederberger (* 1951): Gun runner
• Remo Caminada (* 1974): graphic artist, received the cultural promotion award of the canton of Graubünden in 2007
• Urs Cavelti (* 1969): artist, received the Premi Cultural Paradies Prize for applied arts in 2010
• Walter Derungs (* 1970): received the cultural promotion award of the canton of Graubünden
• Daniela Candrian  : singer, received the cultural promotion award of the canton of Graubünden in 2008
• Andreas Caminada (* 1977): Chef of the year 2008 and 2010, has 18 Gault Millau points and 3 Michelin stars

Families from Sagogn

• Barons of Sagogn : noble noble family of the Surselva
• Barons of Aspermont : a medieval noble family and knighthood that gave today's Aspermont Castle its name.

literature

• Martin Bundi: Sagogn. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Martin Bundi, Augustin Beeli: Veta sociala ed economica a Sagogn: [el 19 e 20 avel Tschentaner] Sagogn . Uniun Pro Sagogn, Sagogn 2013.
• Martin Bundi: 300 onns Pleiv reformada Sagogn = 300 years of the Reformed Parish of Sagogn: 1710–2010 . Pleiv reformada, Sagogn 2010.
• Martin Bundi: Historia dalla vischnaunca da Sagogn. Emprova d'ina descripziun economica, politica, culturala e sociala d'in vischinadi romontsch grischun daven dil temps prehistoric tochen tiels gis dad oz . Bischofberger, Chur 1975.
• Martin Bundi: Medieval rule and settlement in Churrätien using the example of the barons of Sagogn-Schiedberg. Contributions to the historical conference in Sagogn, Aspermont Castle . Edited by the Institute for Cultural Research Graubünden. Publishing house Bündner Monatsblatt, Chur 2008.
• Werner Meyer : The excavations of the castle ruin Schiedberg. In: Castle research in Graubünden. Edited by Maria-Letizia Boscardin and Werner Meyer. Olten / Freiburg i. Br. 1977, pp. 51-175.

gallery

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  Vorderrhein, Catholic Church

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  Golf course

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  Casti Aspermont

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  Crap Signina platform

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  The Planezzas area on the Rhine Gorge - the Laaxertobel in the foreground

Web links

Commons : Sagogn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Sagogn
• Ruinaulta natural monument

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. ↑ Seebach local history collection - Interpretation of place names in Switzerland: Saalen - Sceut [1] , accessed on August 5, 2018.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Martin Bundi: Sagogn. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
4. ↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 779 f.
5. ↑ Federal Statistical Office, as of 2011/12
6. ^ Website of the political municipality Sagogn, Martin Bundi, Platta Pussenta-Projekt [2] , accessed on August 5, 2018
7. ↑ Website of the political municipality Sagogn, sights (only available in Romansh) [3] , accessed on August 5, 2018
8. ^ History of the viticulture of Sagogn [4] , accessed on August 5, 2018
9. ↑ DETEC: Solar potential of the Sagogn community [5] , accessed on August 5, 2018
10. ↑ Source: NOAA, [6] , accessed August 5, 2018
11. ↑ Sagogn municipality, 2017. 2016 annual accounts of Sagogn municipality.
12. ↑ Martin Bundi: Sagogn dil 16avel al 20avel Tschentaner. In: Annalas da la Societad Retorumantscha, Volume 87, 1974, pp. 68-69, doi: 10.5169 / seals-231196 .
13. ↑ Die Suedostschweiz, 2017. The resurrection is in the bottle. [7] , accessed August 5, 2018
14. ↑ Ski area test - January 4, 2012, archived copy ( memento of the original from December 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ Buna Vista Golf Sagogn. [8] , accessed August 5, 2018
16. ↑ Canton of Graubünden: Rheinschlucht Bus connects Valendas with Sagogn [9] , accessed on August 5, 2018
17. ↑ Rheinschlucht bus-taxi timetable [10] , accessed on August 5, 2018
18. ^ Website of the political municipality Sagogn, Vereine [11] , accessed on August 5, 2018
19. ↑ ^{a b} Martin Bundi, Urs Clavadetscher, Werner Meyer, Wolfram Kuoni: Schiedberg, Bregl da Heida and Aspermont Castle in Sagogn (= Swiss Art Guide, No. 829, Series 83). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2007, ISBN 978-3-85782-829-4 .
20. ^ Haus Castelli on graubuendenkultur.ch, accessed on August 5, 2018
21. ↑ Casti Aspermont (Meierturm Sagogn) on burgenwelt.org, accessed on May 25, 2019.
22. ^ Monument Preservation Switzerland: The wooden sound column Sagogn [12] , accessed on August 5, 2018
23. ^ Pro Sagogn [13] , accessed on August 5, 2018
24. ↑ Amur senza fin - a homeland film that many do not understand , accessed on August 5, 2018.