Felsberg, Switzerland

Felsberg

Felsberg (Romansh Favugn? / I ) is a municipality in the district of Imboden in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is located immediately west of Chur and borders the municipalities stockpile stone, Domat / Ems, Tamins and Ragaz.

  • 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 7.2 At places active -been celebrities

Geography

Immediately north- west of the town rises the mountain range of the Calanda, which reaches an altitude of 2'697 m in Felsberger Calanda. Due to its location Felsberg is always threatened by landslides. Thus, the district newly founded " Neudorf " was further established by the foot of the slope away after a rock fall in 1843. This led to a split of the village in old and Neudorf result. More threatening rockfalls in the area of the old village did not materialize. Why did the old village continued to be inhabited.

Population

Since 1850, the population has more than quadrupled. Three phases of growth 1850-1860, 1910 and 1920 and since 1960 were responsible. In the first two growth spurts are regional immigration. For the third immigration from abroad and the location are the main reasons.

Languages

In the Middle Ages changed Felsberg from the Romanesque to the German language. Therefore, it is in the Romansh minority immigrants from Romance-speaking communities and not a long-established linguistic minority. This is also the 1910 census, where disclosures of 625 inhabitants only sixteen Romansh as their mother tongue. The development is shown in the following table:

In 2000, after German and Romansh Albanian with just over 1% third most common primary language.

Origin and nationality

From the end of 2005 2051 residents were in 1907 ( = 93%) Swiss nationals.

Traffic

Moderate traffic Felsberg is well served by the city bus Chur and a station of the Rhaetian Railway.

Townscape

In the village family houses dominate. Through the southern exposure results in a sunny position.

Attractions

  • Reformed Church
  • New Felsberg
  • Two-family house, architect: Andreas Hagmann, Dieter youth
  • Worth seeing are the remains of past landslides, such as the rock fall Grossrüfi, the former mine golden sun and the lime kiln " Hampfrosa ".

History

The place Felsberg was first mentioned in 831, the church in the year 1305. The name comes from the hill behind the town house (mountain in the field, Veltsperg, has nothing to do with rock). In the years 1368-1742 he was under the rule of the barons: Henry of Mrs. Berg joined the rights to rocky mountain to the monastery Churwalden and after 1368 ruled by the Barons of Rhazuns. In September 1843 the mentioned large rockfall occurred. 1866 Felsberg received a first schoolhouse. 1927, 1954 and 1987 there was severe flooding. In January 1981, Ross Tobel- avalanche went down. 2001 again took a heavy rock fall ( about 250,000 cubic meters), but the lightly expired.

Since 2001, a partnership for community Felsberg in Hesse.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Leon Schlumpf (1925-2012), politician, Federal
  • Eveline Widmer -Schlumpf ( born 1956 ), politician, Federal Councillor

At places active -been celebrities

  • Jacob, Oscar and Albert Metzler, organ builder, 1900-1954 and 1968-1971 worked here
  • Oscar peer, Romansh writer and philologist; worked in 1950 as a primary school teacher in Felsberg.
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