Avers

Avers (Romansh Avras ) is a municipality in the upper part of the Averstals, a side valley of the Hinter-Rhein. The community is simultaneously a circle in the back of the Rhine district in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

Coat of arms

Blazon: Slant Right divided by silver and black, silver in a bouncing black, red reinforced Capricorn

The coat of arms is equal to that of the circle obverse, designed by a seal of the landscape: the standing Capricorn was supplemented by the helical pitch to distinguish the arms from that of the church covenant.

Name

The obverse (the name of the community is always used by the locals with articles and pronounced with long, dark A) is a German -speaking island ( Walser German ) in the originally Romansh language area.

Geography

With 1960 m above sea level. M. Avers is the highest municipality in Switzerland. The hamlet belonging to Avers juf applies to 2126 m above sea level. M. as the highest permanently inhabited village in Europe. The whole upper valley from Cresta is located above the tree line. In Cresta are the community office, the school (primary school, Einklassenschule six years) and the church.

The community consists of different fractions: Campsut (1668 m), Cröt (1715 m), Cresta (1958 m, capital of the province ), Puert (1921 m), Am Bach (1959 m), Juppa (2004 m), Podestatsch Hus ( 2046 m) and juf (2,126 m).

Population

Languages

The only official language of the municipality is German, as the population originally consisted of Walser. Chance of Romansh or Italian is spoken.

Origin and nationality

From the end of 2005 184 inhabitants were 179 ( = 97.28 %), Swiss nationals.

Economy

The main industries are agriculture and tourism. Hotels are available in juf, Juppa and Cresta, apartments in every hamlet. In Juppa there are three ski lifts; there is also the starting point of the great cross-country ski. Juf is a popular starting point for ski tours, or summer hiking over several passes to Bivio or to Bergell.

The water almost all the streams of the valley and the Nebentals Madris derived above 1950 m by lug in the Val di Lei reservoir. Although the lake is at north of the Alps, but on the Italian territory; the dam, however, in Switzerland. Only through the construction of the dam in the 50s the valley came to a modern, paved road.

Attractions

Monumental is the Protestant village church, also known as Edelweiss church.

By Avers performs the culturally and historically valuable old Averserstrasse. She is the youngest street because the Avers valley in Graubünden was the last one that got a road. In a massive road-building program all the valleys of the Grisons with four to five meters wide avenues were opened up 1840-1897. For the Averser thus ended and most of their arduous marches Shopping on the Madrisberg after Savogno and Chiavenna.