Tartar GR

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Tartare
Tartar Coat of Arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region : Viamala
Political community : Cazisi2
Postal code : 7422
former BFS no. : 3667
Coordinates : 751 425  /  176 160 coordinates: 46 ° 43 '10 "  N , 9 ° 25' 10"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred twenty-five  /  one hundred seventy-six thousand one hundred sixty
Height : 995  m above sea level M.
Area : 1.55  km²
Residents: 162 (December 31, 2009)
Population density : 105 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.tartar.ch
Tartar GR

Tartar GR

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Tartar GR (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2010

Tartar was a municipality in the former county Thusis , Bezirk Hinterrhein , the Swiss canton of Grisons .

On January 1, 2010, the municipalities of Cazis , Portein , Präz , Sarn and Tartar merged to form the new municipality of Cazis.

geography

Tartar is on the outer Heinzenberg . It has enough children to run its own school. Thanks to a generous sponsorship of the Basel-based community of Muttenz , Tartar was able to afford its own community hall, which, like all community-owned buildings, is supplied with electricity by a small stream power station. While few people work within the community, tourism is a sideline for some. There are many holiday homes on the parish grounds; a total of 1100 overnight stays by tourists are booked annually. A third of the municipal area is covered by forest.

history

Tartar is first mentioned in documents around 1290 as Tartere, which means something like steppe, undeveloped land or wasteland . At that time, Tartar was subordinate to the Lords of Schauenstein, who lived in Ehrenfels Castle . While German is spoken almost exclusively in Tartar today , it used to be a Rhaeto-Romanic community, as indicated by many field names. Between 1530 and 1540 the village was reformed.

Originally, Tartar was a much larger community than it is today and was shaped by wine and chestnut growing . But when a major fire destroyed most of the houses, stables and barns in Tartar in 1806, many residents were forced to sell their farmland and pasture land to neighboring communities in order to survive financially.

coat of arms

Description: Divided by a red bar, above in silver (white) a growing blue, red armored lion , below in the cloud section divided by silver and blue. The lion stands for the affiliation of the community to the former court Thusis, the cloud section is an element of the coat of arms of the Lords of Schauenstein, who were the landlords of the place.

population

Population development
year 1808 1850 1900 1920 1950 1980 1990 2000 2005 2009
Residents 100 170 146 206 188 105 161 158 173 162

languages

Until the 19th century the population spoke Sutselvisch , a Graubünden Romanesque dialect. The language change to German took place very early on. In 1860 and 1870 the community was still mixed languages, but by 1888 only 44 (= 24%) of the 185 residents at the time stated Romansh as their mother tongue. This value fell to 20% by 1910 and to 11% in 1941. Today the community is almost monolingual. German is the only official language. The following table shows the development over the last few decades:

Languages ​​in Tartar
languages 1980 census 1990 census 2000 census
number proportion of number proportion of number proportion of
German 98 93.33% 144 89.44% 154 97.47%
Romansh 6th 5.71% 4th 2.48% 1 0.63%
Italian 0 0.00% 4th 2.48% 3 1.90%
Residents 105 100% 161 100% 158 100%

Origin and nationality

Of the 173 residents at the end of 2005, 169 (= 97.69%) were Swiss citizens.

Attractions

The reformed village church is a listed building .

literature

  • Jürg Simonett: Tartar. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2016 .
  • Erwin Poeschel : The art monuments of the canton of Graubünden. Volume III: The valleys of Räzünser Boden, Domleschg, Heinzenberg, Oberhalbstein, Upper and Lower Engadine (= Swiss art monuments. Volume 11). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1940. DNB 760079625 .
  • Mathias Kundert: The language change in Domleschg and on Heinzenberg (19th / 20th century). Commission publisher Desertina, Chur 2007, ISBN 978-3-85637-340-5 .

Web links

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