Scuol

Scuol ( [ ʃku̯ɔl ] / i;? German Schuls ) is a municipality in the district Suot Tasna, District Inn of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. The place was called until 1943 officially Scuol, Scuol 1943-1970 / Scuol, Scuol since then. The name is from the Latin Scuol scopulus " cliff " come .. On January 1, 2015 Scuol merged with five other municipalities ( Ftan, Ardez, Sent, Guarda and Scuol ) together and form the largest community of Switzerland. With about 4,700 residents, it will be both the largest Romanesque church Grison at all.

5.1 Structures
5.2 Customs

7.1 summer
7.2 Winter Sports 7.2.1 Cross-country skiing

Coat of arms

Blazon: In gold black fountain bowl with four blue - silver water jets.

The emblem symbolizes Scuol as an important seaside resort and was designed by simplifying the municipality seal. The four- speed jets of water stands for the different mineral springs on the municipality.

Geography

Scuol is the capital of the Lower Engadine and is located at the Inn. The main language is, as throughout the Lower Engadine, Vallader (Romansh ), but it also speaks German Grisons. The place Scuol is divided into an upper village ( Scuol Sura ) and a lower village ( Scuol Sot ). New is the above the ring road for several years continuously growing, popular because of its location on the sunny slope area Schinnas and Crastuoglia.

Scuol is situated in the Lower Engadine window, a geologically significant erosion gap in the otherwise impermeable gneiss and granite layer. In the area of the "window " can penetrate gases from the Earth's interior through cracks and soft shale upward, mix with the groundwater and thus form more than 25 mineral springs, which are used within Scuol Scuol - Vulpera as healing springs. For many Scuol fountain bubbling mineral water, alkaline Glauber or Epsom salt sources and Eisensäuerlinge whose digestive properties had already known the ancient Romans. Among these sources, is also the highest mineral Glaubersalzquelle Europe with the name " Lucius " and a total mineralization of 17 g / l

Many of these mineral springs contain natural carbonation. The public fountains are usually equipped with two water taps: From a normal drinking water flows from the other carbonated mineral water.

Climate

The Lower Engadine is known for its sunny climate and is one of the driest regions in Switzerland, even in the Alps. It is in the western foothills of the central Alpine Dry Zone of the Eastern Alps, but must as a reason for the particularly sunny and dry climate also take into account the special orographic condition in Scuol.

The Lower Engadine is sheltered to the north the Silvretta group, and to the south by the Dolomites of mighty mountain ranges. This appears in the Lower Engadine often then the sun while it is raining in the storage locations on the Alps north or south slope. Unlike the Upper Engadine, Lower Engadine climate can not be counted in the Southern Alps, because it dominates in contrast to the higher Upper Engadine the weather influence from the Northwest, not from the south. The Lower Engadine forms a separate, small air Province, where the weather can be often difficult to predict forecasts.

The continental coinage of the region around Scuol in winter makes for dominant consequently dry and cold conditions; the precipitate focus is in the summer. The month with the least precipitation sum is February. Fog formation is extremely rare (1.4 fog days per year ), the wind blows only very weakly in usually in the valley, but the valley - mountain wind system especially at night makes for a very strong cooling. The temperatures in the winter to achieve radiation in positions -20 ° C or less, the December and January have an above-average number of the elevation 15 on ice days.

Despite the relative dryness is almost always enough snow in the winter because it snows enough both from north and south. Scuol has the advantage that it is mostly pronounced in " South " or north years never suffers from serious lack of snow. Neither the wet-mild west wind, which can easily rise over 1500 -2000m the snow lines at the northern Alps, nor the well-known as a snow eater hairdryer occur in Scuol due to the intra- alpine protected position in the classical form, what the snow conditions promotes and strong thaw layers significantly reduced.

Population

Languages

The language of Scuol is Vallader, a Grison Romanesque dialect. Already in the second half of the 19th century the town had received a German -speaking minority. Nevertheless, the Romanesque was able to hold up to the Second World War. 1880 gave 82 %, 1910 64 % and in 1941 71 % as a first language Romansh on. By 1970, the Romansh share fell to 62%, recovered briefly - and has since fallen sharply. In 2000, the Romansh were only a relative majority. Community and school support the Romanesque, which was understood by 78% in 1990 and 2000 by 70 % of the population. The development in recent decades has shown the following table:

Religions and denominations

1533 the Reformation was introduced in place.

Nationality

From the end of 2005 2196 inhabitants were counted in 1764 (80 % ) Swiss nationals.

Culture and sights

Structures

Worth seeing are the late Gothic Church of St. George of 1516 and the well-preserved town houses. In the village "Scuol Sot " are beautiful old Engadine houses and a picturesque square with a large fountain and attractions such as the Lower Engadine Museum or the Chasa Baer- Gaudenzdorfer.

In the upper village, including the Grade II listed rectory Scuol, Engadin houses to historic string together: Residential House in Porta, House Wieland. In Scuol Sot:

Residence Hohenbalken,
House with late-Gothic facade painting.
Covered wooden bridge.
Bridge Tower.

In Stradun:

Villa Engadine.
Center Augustin

In Bad Scuol:

Kurhaus Bad Scuol;
Former Bath House ( Center da cultura NAIRS )
Former Anglican Church

Kindergarten -pric

A traffic engineering monument is the Gurlainabrücke.

Customs

On the first Saturday in February, the traditional burning of Hom will be held power. On 31 December, the children celebrate the festival of Barchinas.

The nickname of the population is Scuol in the Engadine tradition ils porchs (English: the pigs).

Traffic

Located in Scuol Scuol Scuol train station is the eastern terminus of the line Bever - Scuol Scuol - the Rhaetian Railway (RhB ) and starting point for various bus routes.

Tourism

Summer

Scuol's mountain Motta Naluns is the starting point for hikers, bikers and paragliders. On the right side of the valley is the hiking and touring region of Val S- charl, adjoining the National Park and the Lischanahütte SAC. Above Scuol is San Jon, riding stables with trail riding academy and Flöna, one of the oldest mountain huts in the Lower Engadine.

Scuol is the annual venue of the National Park Bike Marathon, the start and finish is located in Scuol.

Winter sports

The ski resort Scuol Motta Naluns (1250-2785 m ) has 80 km of groomed slopes and 12 lifts to the mid-sized ski areas of Switzerland. One advantage is the compactness of the ski area and opening up facilities that enable short journeys.

The majority of the slopes is easy to moderate, difficult slopes are mainly found on Mot da Ri and Salaniva. The area Salaniva - Champatsch - Salez is a great freeride terrain. Apart from the first ski lift is a " fun park " for snowboarders and skiers, consists of all the kickers and boxes.

Highlight of the region is at 3 km with artificial snow 10 km long and in the lower part of " dream piste " to Sent (1430 m) (1250 m ) introduced a few years ago also 2 km longer to Scuol. Other slopes are the vollbeschneite, moderate downhill " Derby " to Scuol (5.5 km), which is 3 km downhill to Ftan (1684 m).

Cross-country skiing

The Lower Engadine offers a total of 72 km of cross country ski trails for classic and skating, including the 28 km trail Scuol- Martina along the Inn River, which can even be prepared in the first five kilometers with artificial snow. However, the trail is usually snow-sure due to the location on the valley floor. Other trails are available in Ftan, Scuol and in other places of the Lower Engadine. Snow sure to April is the six- km - altitude trail at Motta Naluns ( 2146 m) in the ski resort of Scuol.