Valchava

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Valchava
Valchava coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region : Engiadina Bassa / Val Müstair
Political community : Val Müstairi2
Postal code : 7535
former BFS no. : 3846
Coordinates : 827 496  /  165246 coordinates: 46 ° 35 '59 "  N , 10 ° 24' 30"  O ; CH1903:  eight hundred twenty-seven thousand four hundred and ninety-six  /  165246
Height : 1440  m above sea level M.
Area : 16.67  km²
Residents: 198 (December 31, 2007)
Population density : 12 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.cdvm.ch
Valchava with the late Gothic village church

Valchava with the late Gothic village church
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Map of Valchava
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Valchava ( [ˌvalˈtɕavɐ] ? / I ; German and officially Valcava until 1943 ) was until December 31, 2008 a political municipality in the Val Müstair district in the Inn district of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. Audio file / audio sample

On January 1, 2009, Valchava merged with the other Swiss municipalities in the valley ( Fuldera , Lü , Müstair , Santa Maria Val Müstair and Tschierv ) to form the municipality of Val Müstair . The name Valchava means "deep valley".

geography

Aerial photo (1954)

The former municipality is located on the right-hand slope of the Val Müstair (Münstertal) 1.8 kilometers west of Santa Maria Val Müstair . It consists of the village, the hamlet of Valpaschun (1771 m) and various farms. Both in the south and in the north, the municipal boundary extends up to 2900 m. The highest point in the municipality is the Piz Terza (2907 m) in the far north.

Of the entire former municipality area of ​​1671 hectares, 566 hectares are forested and 313 hectares are mountain. The majority of the agriculturally usable land, namely 618 of 768 hectares, is cultivated as Maiensässen . The remaining 24 hectares of the area are settlement areas.

population

Population development
year 1850 1900 1950 2000 2007
Residents 208 218 252 202 198

languages

In the 19th century there was already a small German-speaking minority, but this continued to shrink until 1970. In 1880 69%, in 1910 72%, 1941 75% and 1970 even 90% said Romansh as their mother tongue. To this day , the language of the majority is Jauer , a dialect of the Romansh Vallader . The following table shows the development over the past decades:

Languages ​​in Valchava
languages 1980 census 1990 census 2000 census
number proportion of number proportion of number proportion of
German 44 20.18% 31 15.20% 37 18.32%
Romansh 168 77.06% 167 81.86% 163 80.69%
Italian 5 2.29% 6th 2.94% 2 0.99%
Residents 218 100% 204 100% 202 100%

Religions and denominations

In the 1530s, after the Reformation , the residents switched to the Protestant faith. The Catholic Church was built for the Catholic faithful in 1896.

Origin and nationality

Of the 200 residents at the end of 2005, 193 were Swiss nationals.

traffic

The community is connected to the public transport network by the Zernez - Mals post bus line .

history

The place is first mentioned in a land register of the Müstair monastery . This and the Marienberg Abbey had properties in Valchava at that time. In 1879 the previously independent municipality of Valpaschun was merged with Valchava.

coat of arms

Description: A fallen blue rafter in gold (yellow) . The coat of arms symbolizes the community name twice: The rafter stands for the first letter of the community and at the same time for the term "Val".

Attractions

Western part of the village.
  • The reformed village church is a listed building .
  • The valley museum of the Münster valley is located in the Chasa Jaura .
  • Melcher house, built around 1800, a late example of a manor house.
  • Three choir windows in August Wanner's Catholic Church
  • In the middle of September 2006, the approximately 5 km long nature discovery trail Senda Trafögl was inaugurated around Valchava . This is divided into four experience areas, which are based on the four elements water, air, earth and fire (see also: four-element teaching ). The path begins on the northern side of the valley and leads first to the west along the Rambach (in this part he deals with the element of water), then rises to 1552 meters (element of air), and then falls off at Rünca Sot and the Cross the valley road. On the south side of the valley it deals with the elements earth and fire and rises to a maximum of 1648 meters. Here, u. a. Wood carvings and metal sculptures. It ends roughly at the level of the old lime kiln on the edge of Valchava.
  • South of the village on the edge of the forest there is a several hundred year old lime kiln ( Chalchera in the Rhaeto-Romanic idiom Vallader ), which was last used in 1943. It was renovated in 1982. The resulting lime was used to produce mortar and plastering walls.

Personalities

  • Not Bott (born May 14, 1927 in Valchava, † November 24, 1998 in Poschiavo), wood sculptor. Art in construction and space design.

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 .
  • 120 ons Valchava - Valpaschun. [miss insembel da Hans-Peter Schreich-Stupan]. Biblioteca Jaura, Valchava 1999.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chasa Jaura on the portal to Bündner Baukultur, accessed on June 24, 2013.
  2. ^ Wohnhaus Melcher on the portal to Bündner Baukultur, accessed on June 24, 2013.
  3. ↑ Leza Dosch: Art Guide through Graubünden p. 295
  4. ↑ Not Bott. In: Sikart