Location

Courtyard Zuort

Zuort ( [tsuə̯rt] ^?^/^I , originally Suord , Rhaeto-Romanic in the idiom Vallader for “deaf”) is a fraction of the municipality of Scuol ( Sent until 2014 ) in the Lower Engadine Val Sinestra in Switzerland . The court Zuort , a small hamlet on 1,711 meters above sea level lies approximately 2.5 kilometers north of the Kurhaus Sinestra and from the plateau of Sent or Vnà accessible from. A small road leads to the Kurhaus and a post bus line in summer . Hof Zuort was a customs post for centuries .

The recent history of the village of Zuort was significantly shaped by the Dutch conductor and composer Willem Mengelberg . Mengelberg had a chalet built for himself and spent his holidays and the last years of his life there. In 1920 he acquired the ownership of the village and set a farmers from Sent as a tenant, which chapel was built under his leadership, as a memorial to commemorate the preservation of Switzerland and the Netherlands in the First World War .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Jan Bott (text); Peter Metz (editing): Willem Mengelberg and Hof Zuort . In: Bündner Jahrbuch 2017 . tape 59 . Tardis, Chur 2016, ISBN 978-3-9524106-5-3 , pp. 115-123 .

46.871 10.33 1711Coordinates: 46 ° 52 ' N , 10 ° 20' E ; CH1903: 820 386 / 195159

[1] Jan Bott (text); Peter Metz (editing): Willem Mengelberg and Hof Zuort . In: Bündner Jahrbuch 2017 . tape 59 . Tardis, Chur 2016, ISBN 978-3-9524106-5-3 , pp. 115-123 .