Valsot

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Valsot
Valsot coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region : Engiadina Bassa / Val Müstair
BFS no. : 3764i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 7556 Ramosch
7558 Strada
7559 Tschlin
7560 Martina
Coordinates : 824 607  /  191125 coordinates: 46 ° 50 '0 "  N , 10 ° 23' 0"  O ; CH1903:  824607  /  191125
Height : 1236  m above sea level M.
Height range : 988–3395 m above sea level M.
Area : 158.95  km²
Residents: 855 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 5 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.valsot.ch
Ramosch with the Florinus Church

Ramosch with the Florinus Church
Location of the municipality
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Tschanüff Castle

Valsot ( [ˌvalˈzɔt] ? / I , Rhaeto-Romanic for Lower Valley ) is the name of a merged municipality in the Lower Engadine , the Engiadina Bassa / Val Müstair region in the canton of Graubünden , Switzerland. It was created on January 1, 2013 from the communities Ramosch and Tschlin . Audio file / audio sample

The project was launched with an information event in mid-June 2009 under the name Ramosch-Tschlin. On October 21, 2011, the merger agreement was approved in both community meetings. In April 2012, the Grisons Grand Council (cantonal parliament) approved the merger.

Aerial photograph by Walter Mittelholzer (1934)

Attractions

Personalities

  • Barblan family. Grisons family von Vnà (today the municipality of Valsot), who produced various teachers, pastors and important artists in the 19th and 20th centuries.
    • Florian Barblan (* 1834 in Vnà; † 1896 there), Otto's father, was a forester, teacher and school inspector and published Rhaeto-Romanic songs.
    • Otto Barblan (born March 22, 1860 in S-chanf ; † December 19, 1943 in Geneva ), composer and organist
    • Gaudenz Barblan (1860–1916), teacher at the Plantahof agricultural school.
  • Jon Semadeni (1910–1981), teacher and author

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 .

Web links

Commons : Valsot  - 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 .
  2. ↑ Reto Stifel: Valsot municipality approved. In: Engadiner Post of April 17, 2012.
  3. ^ Paul Eugen Grimm: Barblan. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2017 .
  4. ^ Paul Eugen Grimm: Barblan. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2017 .
  5. ^ Thomas Gartmann: Barblan, Otto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2002 .
  6. ↑ Lucia Walther: Barblan, Gudench. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2017 .
  7. ^ Clà Riatsch: Semadeni, Jon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2017 .