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Tarnutzer is a Prättigau family name .
The family name Tarnutzer , also Tarnuzzer , Darnutzer or Darnuzzer comes from the Walser settlement Alp Tarnutz (also called Malanser Tarnutz ) south of Fideris in the Prättigau at the foot of the Chistenstein ( 2473 m ). The name is spread in Fideris , Jenaz , St. Antönien , Schuders , Schiers and its surroundings as far as Walserberg .
Well-known namesake
- Walter Walid Tariq Tarnutzer , President of the Ahmadiyya in Switzerland and head of the Mahmoud Mosque in Zurich
- Karin Steinbach Tarnutzer (* 1966), freelance book author, editor and alpine journalist in St. Gallen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Nichols Richardson: German - Romance Contact. Name-giving in Walser settlements , Amsterdam 1974, ISBN 90-6203-221-4 , p. 29
- ↑ Tarnutzer families of Switzerland