Sedrun

Sedrun

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	canton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region :	Surselvaw
Political community :	Tujetschi2 w1
Postal code :	7188
Coordinates :	702 219 / 170733 coordinates: 46 ° 40 '48 " N , 8 ° 46' 29" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and two thousand two hundred and nineteen / 17073346.679996 8.774718 1405
Height :	1405 m above sea level M.
Website:	www.tujetsch.ch

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Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1964

Sedrun , the capital of the Swiss municipality of Tujetsch , is located in the Cadi in the Grisons Surselva between the villages of Camischolas and Bugnei on the Vorderrhein .

history

The Tujetsch (dt. Tavetsch ) consisted of remote farm settlements that stretched from the Oberalp Pass to Bugnei. There never was a village of Tujetsch. The settlement took place after the foundation of the Disentis monastery in the 8th century. In the 12th century, the Walsers migrated over the Oberalp Pass and settled in the upper Tujetsch. B. the sex of Berther . It was not until the 18th century that the mountain farmers gradually moved to the villages on the valley floor. Sedrun became the capital of the community and the parish. The parish church of Sedrun, of which the tower is still preserved, was consecrated in 1205. Today's Sogn Vigeli church dates from 1691–1695.

Before the Gotthard Pass was expanded around 1200, a pass path from Silenen via Bristen in Maderanertal over the Chrüzli Pass ( 2347 m above sea level ) to Sedrun and further over the Lukmanier Pass connected northern and southern Switzerland . The ascent to the Chrüzli Pass is marked on the Uri side near Golzern with a bowl stone and a menhir , on the Graubünden side by a large worked block near Sedrun / Valtgevas. The pass, which was presumably already regularly used in prehistoric times and which connects the monasteries Disentis and Einsiedeln by the shortest route, also served as an alternative route to the Oberalp Pass.

NEAT

The village is known because of the NEAT construction site with the access tunnel to the intermediate access to the Gotthard base tunnel . The deepest train station in the world, the Porta Alpina, was planned there.

Sedrun power plant

Three horizontal-axis Pelton turbines with an output of 50 MW are installed in the Sedrun power plant. The processed water is temporarily stored in the Runcahez compensation basin [1] (1961) (♁716974 / 171056) and reused in the Tavanasa power station.