Primal mine

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Primal mine
Urmein coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region : Viamala
BFS no. : 3670i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 7427
Coordinates : 750109  /  173 021 coordinates: 46 ° 41 '29 "  N , 9 ° 24' 4"  O ; CH1903:  750109  /  one hundred and seventy-three thousand and twenty-one
Height : 1264  m above sea level M.
Height range : 911–2235 m above sea level M.
Area : 4.33  km²
Residents: 154 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 36 inhabitants per km²
Primal mine

Primal mine

Location of the municipality
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Urmein ( Romansh Urmagn ) is a municipality in the Viamala region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

coat of arms

Blazon : In red half a golden (yellow) lion with a golden arrow in the right paw

Modification of the coat of arms of the Dönz family, which led the lion with the arrow in the blue field. The colors are based on the old Heinzenberg court coat of arms.

geography

Urmein is a clustered village on the Heinzenberg and is located west of Thusis . To the south of the village, the Nolla flows through a deep gorge and to the west of it rises the Glaser Grat (2124 m). Beyond the Nollatobel, the municipality rises up to the vicinity of the Zwölfihorn (2280 m). The holiday village of Oberurmein (1527–1609 m) belongs to Urmein.

Of the entire 435 hectare municipal area, 172 hectares are forested and 34 hectares are mountain. The agriculturally usable soil covers 204 ha, of which only a small part is cultivated as alpine meadows. The remaining 25 hectares are settlement areas.

population

Population development
year 1803 1850 1900 1950 1980 1990 2000 2005 2016
Residents 158 133 89 90 76 81 81 98 147

languages

Originally, the residents spoke Sutselvisch , a Graubünden Romance dialect. But already in the Middle Ages, under the influence of the Walsers, they changed from Tschappina to German. Until 1970 there was a linguistic minority due to immigration from the Romansh-speaking neighboring villages. Since then the community has been monolingual. This is also proven by the following table:

Languages ​​in primordial mine
languages 1980 census 1990 census 2000 census
number proportion of number proportion of number proportion of
German 73 96.05% 79 97.53% 80 98.77%
Romansh 2 2.63% 2 2.47% 0 0.00%
Residents 76 100% 81 100% 81 100%

Origin and nationality

Of the 98 residents at the end of 2005, 95 were Swiss nationals.

Attractions

The reformed village church is a listed building .

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 .
  • The municipalities of the canton of Graubünden. Chur / Zurich, 2003. ISBN 3-7253-0741-5
  • Mathias Kundert: The language change in Domleschg and on Heinzenberg (19th / 20th century). Commission publisher Desertina, Chur 2007, ISBN 978-3-85637-340-5 .
  • Jürg Simonett: Urmein. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2013 .

Web links

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

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 .