Valzeina

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Graubünden (GR)

Region :

Prättigau / Davos

Political community :

Grüsch

Postal code :

7213

former BFS no. :

3973

Coordinates :

764 519 / 202145 coordinates: 46 ° 57 '0 " N , 9 ° 36' 0" O ; CH1903: seven hundred sixty-four thousand five hundred nineteen / 202145

Height :

1114 m above sea level M.

Area :

11.44 km²

Residents:

139 (December 31, 2010)

Population density :

12 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.valzeina.ch

Valzeina

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2011

Valzeina (in local dialect [ ˌv̥ɐlˈʦæˑɪ̯nɐ ], in Swiss High German [ ˌfalˈʦaina ]) is a scattered settlement in the valley of the Schrankenbach, a southern side valley of the front Prättigau in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .

The former neighborhoods Hintervalzeina and Vordervalzeina with the hamlet of Sigg including some surrounding farms made in 1891, a municipality in the former county Buchen , District Unterlandquart which in 2011 together with Fanas the community Grüsch joined.

coat of arms

Blazon : in gold (yellow) a black deer antler (deer sticks)

The rich deer population in the Valzeina area is the reason for choosing the deer antlers as the municipal coat of arms.

geography

Valzeina is a scattered settlement southeast of Landquart at the entrance to the Prättigau and lies on both sides of the Schranggabach . The southernmost district on the northeast slope of the Cyprianspitz ( 1774 m , highest point in the municipality) is the hamlet of Hintervalzeina . A little further north, on the eastern slope of the Schiterberg ( 1627 m ), is Clavadätsch . This is followed by the village of (Vorder-) Valzeina on the eastern slope of the Mittagplatte ( 1370 m ) on the left side of the Schrangga stream . Directly opposite, but east of the brook, on the north-western slope of the Furner Berg ( 1789 m ) is the hamlet of Sigg ( 1064 m ). The northernmost part of the municipality is Untervalzeina ( 1013 m ).

There are numerous individual farmsteads in the former municipality. It covers the whole area down to the Landquart, which is deeply cut in the Chlus . Only the furthest section of the valley with extensive alpine meadows belongs to the municipality of Trimmis.

609 hectares of the entire former municipal area of 1144 hectares are forested. In addition, 461 hectares can be used for agriculture, half as meadows and half as arable and meadow land. There are also 45 hectares of mountains and 29 hectares of settlement area.

history

A predio Valsene is mentioned for the first time in the 12th century ; In 1367 the place Tavaladatsch uff Valtzennas, Valtzeinas is mentioned. For the name Valzeina a combination of the Latin valle 'valley' with a substrate word * sania / senia 'marshland, peat, reed' is assumed. In the 14th century went from Furna ago Walser in the of novels sparsely populated valley one.

In 1697 the then pastor Peter Walser was murdered after the sermon in Valzeina on the way home to Grüsch. Therefore, the place where he died is called Mördertobäli (Mördertobel).

In the Helvetic Republic , the valley, which was previously and subsequently distributed over several jurisdictions, belonged to the district of the lower Landquart of the canton of Rhaetia . The municipality of Hintervalzeina , which had been independent since 1851 and previously belonged to Trimmis , merged in 1891 with the municipality of Vordervalzeina, which was expanded in 1876 by the Sigg department, which had been replaced by Grüsch . At the beginning of 2011, Valzeina joined the community of Grüsch together with Fanas .

population

Of the 132 residents at the end of 2004, 128 were Swiss nationals. The majority of the population is German-speaking and Protestant-Reformed .

politics

Municipal council

The former municipal council consisted of five people. The last mayor was Hans Wieland.

Transport and infrastructure

The Valzeina transmitter around 1958

The predominantly agricultural area has been connected to the Seewis-Valzeina stop of the Rhaetian Railway by a road since 1903 . The Landquart – Valzeina post bus line provides the connection to the public transport network.

In December 1958, the Valzeina transmitter was put into operation. This in order to better supply the Graubünden valleys with VHF transmitters.

Attractions

The reformed village church is a listed building.
Two sycamore in the Putzweid / Oberclavadätsch to 1,350 m are under the protection of since 1942 Pro Natura .

Public facilities

On the lunch plate is the Valzeina transmitter , a 120 meter high transmission mast for radio (analog) and DVB-T television , as well as directional beam systems and satellite antennas. The antenna mast was built by the former Telecom PTT and is now owned by Swisscom .

Above the village of Valzeina is the Flüeli departure center of the canton of Graubünden. Rejected asylum seekers live there who do not leave voluntarily and therefore only receive emergency aid . Residents who have organized themselves in the Association Valzeina criticize the asylum regime, which they consider to be too harsh. The subject was brought up in the documentary Life in Paradise by Roman Vital .

literature

Otto Clavuot: Valzeina. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Erwin Poeschel : The art monuments of the canton of Graubünden II. The valley communities Herrschaft, Prättigau, Davos, Schanfigg, Churwalden, Albula valley. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 9). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1937. DNB 811066703 .
J. Jürgen Seidel : Valzeina. A Walser village in the Prättigau . Publishing house Buchdruckerei Schiers AG. Schiers 1990.
Christoph Signer: The Walser community Valzeina. Anthropogeographical aspects of Valzeina. Diploma thesis, University of Zurich. Zurich 1980.
The municipalities of the canton of Graubünden . Chur / Zurich, 2003. ISBN 3-7253-0741-5 .

Web links

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

Image of the radio and television show Mittagsplatte

Individual evidence

^ Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland , Volume V 1b; online at sprachtlas.ch> original materials and ortnames.ch (Attention: v in the SDS transcription reproduces a voiceless lenis and thus an [f] sound and does not match the voiced, dentolabial [v] (w) sound of the To confuse IPA transcription, see Rudolf Hotzenköcherle : Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz. Introductory volume B: Question book. Transcription key. Admission protocols. Francke, Bern 1962, p. 89).
^ The pronunciation of standard German in Switzerland. A guide. On behalf of the Swiss Screening Commission, ed. by Bruno Boesch . Schweizer Spiegel, Zurich 1957, p. 39; Hans Bickel , Christoph Landolt : Swiss High German. Dictionary of the standard language in German-speaking Switzerland. Edited by the Swiss Association for the German Language . 2., completely revised and exp. Edition Duden, Berlin 2018, p. 102.

↑ ^a ^b Rhaetian name book , founded by Robert von Planta . Volume 2: Etymologies, arr. and ed. by Andrea Schorta . Francke, Bern 1964, p. 886.

↑ Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss municipality names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel. Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 912.

↑ Pro Natura 4/2014: Graubünden ( Memento from August 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[1] Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland , Volume V 1b; online at sprachtlas.ch> original materials and ortnames.ch (Attention: v in the SDS transcription reproduces a voiceless lenis and thus an [f] sound and does not match the voiced, dentolabial [v] (w) sound of the To confuse IPA transcription, see Rudolf Hotzenköcherle : Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz. Introductory volume B: Question book. Transcription key. Admission protocols. Francke, Bern 1962, p. 89).

[2] The pronunciation of standard German in Switzerland. A guide. On behalf of the Swiss Screening Commission, ed. by Bruno Boesch . Schweizer Spiegel, Zurich 1957, p. 39; Hans Bickel , Christoph Landolt : Swiss High German. Dictionary of the standard language in German-speaking Switzerland. Edited by the Swiss Association for the German Language . 2., completely revised and exp. Edition Duden, Berlin 2018, p. 102.

[rnb-3] Rhaetian name book , founded by Robert von Planta . Volume 2: Etymologies, arr. and ed. by Andrea Schorta . Francke, Bern 1964, p. 886.

[4] Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss municipality names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel. Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 912.

[5] Pro Natura 4/2014: Graubünden ( Memento from August 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )