Danis-Tavanasa
Danis-Tavanasa ( ) is a fraction of the municipality of Breil / Brigels in the Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. At the end of 2009 there were 449 people living in Danis-Tavanasa.
Danis
Danis is on the left side of the Vorderrhein at the beginning of the road up to Brigels at an altitude of 842 m. ü. M.
The place name is mentioned in 765 in the will of Bishop Tello as Anives . In 1581 Abbot Christian von Castelberg built a Trinity chapel in Danis to ward off the Reformation . Today's Dreifaltigkeitskirche was built in 1656 and rebuilt in 1995/1996. Danis is the location of the primary school of the parliamentary group and part of the entire municipality of Brigels as well as the entire secondary and secondary school.
Tavanasa
Tavanasa ▼ , a street village of around 600 meters in length, lies a little lower than Danis in the valley floor of the Vorderrhein on the right side of the river at an altitude of 788 m. ü. M.
The place was mentioned in a document by Bishop Tello in 765 as Abbatissae , in 1470 as Thafanatzen . After 1185, the Petersbach, east of Tavanasa, formed the eastern border of the Cadi , the region around Disentis / Mustér , located up the valley .
The school children from Tavanasa attend school either in Danis on the other side of the river or in Breil / Brigels.
Immediately above Tavanasa are the ruins of Heidenberg Castle on an almost inaccessible boulder . This is located in the far-reaching municipality of Obersaxen .
In 2015 Tavanasa - next to Sagogn one of the few places mentioned by Bishop Tello in his will - celebrated its 1250th anniversary, among other things with an exhibition and an open-air theater. Most recently Tavanasa became known through the work of the writer Arno Camenisch .
Transport and economy
Danis-Tavanasa has been connected by the cantonal road to Brigels, which is around 350 meters higher, since 1890. Danis-Tavanasa is also connected to Brigels by a post bus line. The station of the Rhaetian Railway Tavanasa-Breil / Brigels has been located north of the village since 1912 .
In 1905 the Bernese engineer and bridge builder Robert Maillart designed a bridge over the Rhine between Tavanasa and Danis, his first three-hinged box girder, which was largely destroyed by a debris flow in 1927 . The successor bridge is a construction from 1928 by the Chur engineer Walter Versell and has only been available to pedestrians and cyclists since autumn 2016. The current bridge over the Vorderrhein was opened on September 30, 2016, about 100 m upstream.
Danis-Tavanasa has been important to the electrical industry since 1946. The Axpo AG maintains talaufwärts a balancing reservoir of the power plant Tavanasa-Obersaxen.
Tavanasa
Rhine bridge (1928), seen from Tavanasa
Rhine bridge (2016) to the west
Web links
- Official website of the Brigels-Waltensburg-Andiast tourist region
- Adolf Collenberg: Danis. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Adolf Collenberg: Tavanasa. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kirchen Brigels, at kirche-lichtblicke.ch ( Memento from May 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ School on breil.ch
- ↑ Avant 1250 onns era Sagogn chapitala article on rtr.ch from November 23, 2015
- ↑ Tavanasa looks back on its history in many ways . Article on suedostschweiz.ch from January 19, 2015
- ↑ blueprint
- ↑ Les ponts de Robert Maillart ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Old bridge from Tavanasa to Danis has been saved Article on heimatschutz-gr.ch from April 20, 2016
- ^ Opening of the new Vorderrheinbrücke Danis announcement on gr.ch of September 30, 2016
- ↑ Optimization of the Tavanasa-Obersaxen power plant Article at strom.ch from April 28, 2010
Coordinates: 46 ° 45 '16.3 " N , 9 ° 3' 21.6" E ; CH1903: seven hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred sixty-six / 179423