Valbella
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 Graubünden (GR)
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| Region : | Albula | |
| Political community : | Vaz / Obervaz | |
| Postal code : | 7077 | |
| UN / LOCODE : | CH LNZ | |
| Coordinates : | 761 767 / 179 815 | |
| Height : | 1510 m above sea level M. | |
| Residents: | 500 | |
| Website: | www.lenzerheide.ch | |
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Valbella is a place in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland . Politically, the village is a fraction of the municipality of Vaz / Obervaz .
Location and population
Valbella ("Beautiful Valley") is located on Hauptstrasse 3 at an altitude of around 1500 meters between Lenzerheide in the south and the municipality of Parpan in the north. In the south the place borders on the Heidsee . In the north, the Lenzerheide pass (1549 m above sea level) forms the outskirts and the transition to the Churwaldnertal . In the west of Valbella lies the Stätzerhorn , in the east the Parpaner Weisshorn .
The original center of Valbella was Canols at the northern end of the Heidsee. At the beginning of the 20th century, Canols was larger than Valbella. Today the center is on the main road around the post office. The so-called Valbella slope up towards Alp Sartons was built over with holiday homes in the course of the last century.
The village belongs to the Romance language area. The local idiom is Rumantsch da Vaz, a variety of Surmiran .
During the high season in winter around 3000 people live in Valbella. There are around 500 permanent residents.
Valbella on the Siegfried map ,
around 1900
View from Casoja to the north. In front the holiday home of the city of Zurich
Entrance from the north
center
history
The development of the village of Valbella is closely linked to the history of the better-known and larger Lenzerheide and goes back to the 1880s. Until the end of the 19th century, the scattered stables and pastures of the farmers of Obervaz stood in the region around Valbella, and they were only inhabited during the summer months. Around 1880, Jakob Fidel Margreth, who had made his fortune in Udine, built the first summer villa. In 1882 the Churwalden hotelier Johann Brügger-Battaglia bought the Heidsee from the diocese and enlarged it by damming it. He built the Inselchâlet on an island, which also served as a post office. In the following years, more holiday homes and hotels were built. In 1905 the post office moved to the Valbella guesthouse and was called "Valbella-Lenzerheidsee". In 1929 the Oberpostdirektion decided that the post office should be called “Lenzerheidsee”. In the 1950s it was renamed “Valbella”. The name "Valbella" for the entire fraction north of the Heidsee did not gain acceptance until the 1940s, as Romansh was being preserved. The actual village of Valbella emerged immediately after the turn of the century in the first half of the 20th century.
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Heidsee and Canols, 1930
Seehof and Casoja, 1934
Aerial photo 1965
Attractions
tourism
In 1900 the brothers Paul Fidel and Caspar Parpan bought the land for the "Valbella" guesthouse, which later passed to Georg Nigg. In 1905 a Mr. Nadig built the Posthotel, the teacher Cadisch built the “Waldheim” hotel, now the Waldhaus. After the hotel was sold, Cadisch built a villa in Valbella-Canols, which after 1919 was run by a Red Cross nurse as the Soldanella children's home . The “Pension Seehof” was built on the lake and served as accommodation for the workers employed in the construction of the Casoja private power station for the “Hotel Kurhaus” in Lenzerheide.
After the slump in tourism, caused by the two world wars, there was a strong tourist boom from the 1960s onwards with the development of new ski areas. The first transport system for skiers was a Funi , which Lenzerheide was able to take over and which was in operation from 1946 to 1955. This opened up the practice slopes of Valschameala and Sartons. Over time, the Funi, with its transport capacity of 100 people per hour, was no longer able to cope with the rush. It was sold and replaced by a double bow lift that could move 400 people an hour. At the beginning of the 1960s, the Stätzerhorn was made accessible with lifts. Valbella has been part of the Arosa Lenzerheide ski area since winter 2013/14 .
The youth hostel was opened in Valbella in 1932 - for the first time a new building was built in Switzerland. In 2006 it was extensively renovated.
literature
- Fritz Ludescher: Lenzerheide-Valbella: From the Maiensäss to the health resort - an illustrated book. Casanova-Druck, Chur 1984.
- Fritz Ludescher: From Maiensäss to health resort: 125 years of Kurhaus and health resort Lenzerheide. Cancas Verlag, Chur 2007, ISBN 978-3-033-00251-1 .
- Festschrift for the centenary celebration of 100 years of the Lenzerheide / Valbella spa town 1882-1982. Municipality, Vaz / Obervaz 1982.
Web links
- Toni Cantieni: Lenzerheide / Valbella. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Valbella on the ETHorama platform
Individual evidence
- ↑ Donat Rischatsch: There weren't any hotels here yet . Ed .: Novitats.
- ↑ Festschrift for the centenary celebration 100 years of the Lenzerheide / Valbella spa town 1882–1982
- ^ Valbella: History - Alpine Architecture. (No longer available online.) In: Swiss Youth Hostels. Archived from the original on December 27, 2010 ; Retrieved July 22, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Youthhostel
