Tschlin

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Tschlin
Tschlin coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region : Engiadina Bassa / Val Müstair
Political community : Valsoti2
Postal code : 7559
former BFS no. : 3753
Coordinates : 827 671  /  195 303 coordinates: 46 ° 52 '11 "  N , 10 ° 25' 32"  O ; CH1903:  827671  /  195303
Height : 1553  m above sea level M.
Area : 74.93  km²
Residents: 429 (December 31, 2012)
Population density : 6 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.valsot.ch
Tschlin from the southwest

Tschlin from the southwest
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Map of Tschlin
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Tschlin ( [tʃlin] ? / I ; German and until 1943 officially Schleins ) is a village in the Swiss Lower Engadine and until the end of 2012, a municipality in the county Ramosch , Bezirk Inn . Audio file / audio sample

On October 21, 2011, the municipal assemblies of Ramosch and Tschlin , which met separately, approved a merger agreement, which was approved by the cantonal parliament in April 2012. Since January 1, 2013, the merged municipality has been called Valsot .

Surname

The name of this village, first mentioned in 1351, originally means a building that is surrounded by a wall.

coat of arms

Blazon : In silver (white) an upright black ibex , armed in red , carrying a black hackle (crest)

A community seal from 1591 shows the ibex as the coat of arms of the church association . The hackle is the symbol of the martyrdom of St. Blaise , the local church patron .

geography

Aerial photo (1954)

The village of Tschlin is located in the Lower Engadine at 1533 m above sea level. M, north of the Inn . The Martina fraction with the village of Vinadi and the Strada fraction with the village of Chaflur and the hamlet of Sclamischot also belong to Tschlin .

The Val Sampuoir belongs to the municipality . It is orographically Engadine side valley of Samnaun .

economy

The main branches of business are agriculture, the service industry, including customs and border guards, and a brewery (Biera Engiadinaisa).

About 40 minutes by car from the village of Tschlin, but also in the municipality, is the large, duty-free shopping center Acla da Fans in the Sampuoir customs-free area .

Many employees work in nearby Scuol .

population

languages

In Tschlin the residents speak Vallader , a Graubünden Romanesque dialect. From 1880 to 1980, the proportion of languages ​​spoken remained almost unchanged (87% in 1880, 81% in 1910, 84% in 1941 and 83% in Romansh speakers in 1970), and in 2000 85% of the residents still understood Romansh, which has remained the only official and school language until now is. The following table shows the development over the last few decades:

Languages ​​in Tschlin
languages 1980 census 1990 census 2000 census
number proportion of number proportion of number proportion of
German 64 14.85% 130 25.24% 100 25.51%
Romansh 362 83.99% 313 60.78% 280 71.43%
Italian 4th 0.93% 33 6.41% 3 0.77%
Residents 431 100% 515 100% 392 100%

In 2000 the two most common languages ​​in Tschlin were Romansh and German.

Origin and nationality

Of the 431 residents at the end of 2005, 411 were Swiss nationals.

Culture and sights

Attractions

  • The reformed, late Gothic church of San Plasch was built in 1515 from the nave walls of the former church. The wall paintings date from the early 16th century.
  • The Duonna Lupa fountain was created in 1960.
  • Multipurpose hall by Andrea Deplazes and Valentin Bearth

Culture

In the tradition of nicknames for the Engadine villages , the Tschliners are called ils tschiainders , in English: "the gypsies". The folk music group Ils Fränzlis da Tschlin comes from Tschlin .

history

The place has been inhabited since at least the 10th century. In 1499 Tyrolean troops advanced to Tschlin, but Duonna Lupa was able to move them to retreat because she claimed that the Confederates were advancing. In the Thirty Years' War during the turmoil in Graubünden , the village suffered severe damage from Austrian troops in 1621/22. In 1854 Tschlin became an independent municipality. Almost all of the village burned down in 1856.

The Novellaberg and the right flank of the Samnaun valley , a total of 18 square kilometers of what is today Tschlin and Valsot, have been controversial territory since the beginning of modern times. In 1868 a treaty between Austria and Switzerland finally made the disputed area part of Switzerland.

Personalities

  • Ulrich Campell (1510–1582), reformer, chronicler, hymn poet and co-founder of the Vallader, 1574–1582 Protestant Reformed pastor in Tschlin
  • Juan Scharplaz , managing director of the “Fullié” chocolate factory in Caracas, Swiss honorary consul in Venezuela 1911–1913
  • Ils Fränzlis da Tschlin , folk music group from the Lower Engadine

traffic

Tschlin is served by the Strada - Tschlin postbus line, a branch line of the Scuol - Martina (- Landeck (Austria)) line.

literature

  • Erwin Poeschel : The art monuments of the canton of Graubünden III. The valley communities Räzünser Boden, Domleschg, Heinzenberg, Oberhalbstein, Upper and Lower Engadine. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 11). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1940. DNB 760079625 .
  • Marc Antoni Nay: Tschlin. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 890, Series 89). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-85782-890-4 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Multi-purpose hall, 1993 at www.graubuendenkultur.ch