Tschappina

Tschappina
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Graubünden (GR)
Region :	Viamala
BFS no. :	3669
Postal code :	7428
Coordinates :	748 765  /  172078 coordinates: 46 ° 41 '0 "  N , 9 ° 23' 0"  O ; CH1903:  748 765  /  172078
Height :	1500  m above sea level M.
Height range :	1029–2998 m above sea level M.
Area :	24.67  km²
Residents:	130 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	5 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.tschappina.ch
Group of houses in Tschappina
Location of the municipality

Tschappina is a municipality in the Viamala region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .

geography

Scattered settlements

Tschappina is located at the foot of Piz Beverin and is the starting point of the mule track over the Glaspass into Safiental . Tschappina is a scattered village . It is divided into the village parts of Untertschappina (1400 m above sea level), Obertschappina (1580 m above sea level) and the three fractions Obergmeind (1810 m above sea level), Ausserglas (1846 m above sea level) and Innerglas (1820 m above sea level). In the Obergmeind there is a small, avalanche-proof ski area with three ski lifts. In summer there are numerous hikes and mountain tours from Tschappina. The abandoned settlement of Masügg lies to the south above the village .

Tschappina is one of the eleven communities in the Beverin Nature Park .

coat of arms

Blazon : In red over a golden (yellow) stepped gable a golden bell

The bell dedicated to Saint Theodul , to whom a chapel was dedicated , hangs above the stepped gable as a reference to the ascent to the Glaspass, also called Scala or Stäga .

history

The place name is first found in a document in 1396 as in Schipinen or in Stipinen and in 1448 as uff Tschuppinen . It corresponds to the Graubünden Romanic generic word Tschuppina, which means "cleared parcel" and is derived from Tschep " Tree trunk, chopping stick, thick piece of wood" (from Latin cipus "boundary stone, pile").

The place was settled in the 14th century by the most Alemannic- speaking Walsers from the Safien valley. Until the 20th century, contact with the Safi people across the Glaspass was closer than that with the Rhaeto-Romanic Heinzenberg and Domleschg . The road to Thusis in Domleschg was not built until 1900/1901.

After 1515 Tschappina introduced the Reformation . Until 1851 the community formed its own judicial community in the Gray League .

population

Population development
year	1803	1850	1900	1950	1980	1990	2000	2005	2010	2012	2014	2016
Residents	330	251	209	209	156	140	151	160	141	137	128	128

languages

The place has belonged to the German-speaking communities of the Canton of Graubünden since the late Middle Ages (see chapter History). This is also shown in the table below:

Languages ​​in Tschappina GR

languages	1980 census		1990 census		2000 census
	number	proportion of	number	proportion of	number	proportion of
German	151	96.79%	138	98.57%	148	98.01%
Romansh	3	1.92%	2	1.43%	2	1.32%
Residents	156	100%	140	100%	151	100%

Origin and nationality

Of the 160 residents at the end of 2005, 153 were Swiss citizens.

Attractions

The reformed village church is a listed building .

Personalities

• Reto Hänny (* 1947), writer
• Luzi Jenny (1925–2015), dialect writer
• Oscar Plattner (1922–2002), racing cyclist

literature

• Erwin Poeschel : The art monuments of the canton of Graubünden III. The valley areas 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 .
• Jürg Simonett: Tschappina. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2014 .

Web links

Commons : Tschappina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tschappina on the ETHorama platform
• Official website of the Tschappina municipality

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 . 
2. ^ Rhaetian name book . Arranged by Andrea Schorta. Volume II, Bern 1964, p. 94. According to this lexicon of Swiss community names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 887.