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Alp and Walser Wüstung Sturfis, ruins of the chapel to the left of the lake
Sturzis in the center of the picture, behind the Glegghorn

Sturfis is an alp in the Maienfeld Alps and the desert of a former Walser settlement at 1577  m above sea level. M. Seen from the Chur Rhine Valley , it lies behind the Alpine ridge, above Seewis .

history

The settlement was first mentioned in 1333, making it the oldest known German-speaking settlement in Prättigau . Together with Guscha , Bovel , Rofels and Vatscherin, Sturfis formed the Walser community of Berg within the Maienfeld community . In the turmoil of the Thirty Years War, the settlement was abandoned. A large part of the population had died of the plague. In 1633, Sturfis was contractually converted into an alp, and the 38 surviving residents moved to Rofels (also part of the Walser community of Berg). A memorial stone and the ruins of the chapel on a small hill south of the alpine huts still bear witness to the former permanent settlement. The Rofelser of Walser descent were incorporated into Maienfeld's town citizenship in the middle of the 18th century.

literature

  • Anton Mooser: A Graubünden village that has disappeared. in Bündnerisches monthly newspaper BM, 1915
  • Anton Mooser: The Walser settlement of Stürvis and its disappearance. Branching and distribution of the Stürviser sexes . Bündnerisches monthly bulletin BM 1939
  • Paul Rehli: From the Walser settlement to the Maienfelder Alp Sturfis . In: Terra plana 1996, No. 1, ZDB -ID 283074-7 , pages 41-44.
  • Johannes Fulda: The Sturfiser Hereditary Letter from 1521 and the emergence of the Walser settlement on Sturfis. in BM 2006, pages 68-86
  • Andreas Gredig-Thöny: Elly and Oswald. The rise and fall of the Walser settlement of Stürvis behind the Vilan in the Vorderprättigau. Novella, self-published 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Donasch, Paul Meinzberg; 2000, Chur; long-distance hiking in 45 stages, p. 45.
  2. ^ Adolf Collenberg: Sturfis. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ^ Anton Mooser: The Walser settlement Stürvis and its disappearance . BM 1939

Coordinates: 47 ° 2 ′ 22 "  N , 9 ° 37 ′ 5"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred sixty-five thousand six hundred sixteen  /  212123