Piuro

Piuro (German Plurs ) is a village in the province of Sondrio in Lombardy, Italy. Piuro has 1918 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) to 48 km ². Piuro is close to the border with the Canton of Grisons, Switzerland, and is geographically part of the Bergell. The village is situated at the mouth of the Valle Drana in the Mera and is composed of a large number of hamlets. The most important are Prosto, Borgonovo and Santa Croce. The smaller hot Sant ' Abbondio Aurogo, Scilano and Cranna. High up on the mountain and by car are not available Savogno and Dasile.

History

The historic Piuro, which at the time as, Plurs ' still belonged as subjects of the Three Leagues country had come through the reduction of Lavezstein in the early modern period to wealth. So writes a witness in the 17th century houses, " which could be called rather large palaces. [ ... ] Yes, it seemed that here Croesus accumulated the wealth and Cleopatra carried her precious jewels. " However, the uncontrolled degradation led on 25 Augustjul. / September 4 1618greg. to a severe landslide: the mountain Conto dissolved due to the undercuts large masses of rock, the Plurs and parts of the neighboring village Chilano buried under rock debris and the river Mera accumulated for a short time to a lake. According to different sources there between 1,000 and 2,000 people were killed.

Literature and sources

• Katrin Hauer: The sudden death. Landslides in Salzburg and Plurs considered culturally and historically. LIT -Verlag, Wien 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-50039-7 ( Cultural Studies, 23 ).
• Katrin Hauer: landslides of cultural history: Salzburg and Plurs compared, in: Kreyenfeld et al (eds.), Nature as a liminal experience. University Verlag Göttingen, 2009
• Günther Kahl: Plurs: the history of representations of the spot before and after the landslide of 1618, in: Journal of Swiss Archaeology and Art History, Volume 41 (1984 )
• Helmut Presser: From the mountains swallowed, preserved in books. Herbert Lang, Bern 1963