Salouf
Salouf with the Piz Toissa
Salouf ( German and until 1943 officially Salux, locally pronounced as [ sa'lɔ ː kf ] due to the Diphthongverhärtung ) is a municipality in the district of Albula Surses in the district of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
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Coat of arms
The main motive of the emblem, the lily, the emblem of the coming of Salouf Benedikt Fontana. To distinguish them from his coat of arms the stars were attached.
Geography
The municipality is located on a terrace on the eastern slopes of the Piz Toissa ( 2657 m) above the valley floor to the left of Juliet. Well as the village also includes the hamlet Pulens ( 1386 m) and Del ( 1373 m) to the municipality. Of the total municipal area of over 31 square kilometers at least 1336 ha is arable. From this area, however, 1112 ha is used only as a mountain pastures. More 885 ha are covered by forests and woodland and 883 ha of unproductive area (mostly mountains in the western part of the municipality ). The rest of 37 ha settlement area.
Population
Languages
The language of the population is Surmeirisch, a regional dialect of Romansh. Up to 1980, the population was largely mirror Romansh. 1880 were 99.1 %, 91.43 % in 1910 and 1980, 88.54 %. Since then, the language loses ground. However, not nearly as strong as in many communities in the region. The development in recent decades shows the table below:
The sole authorities language is Romansh, which is understood by 86.3 % of the population.
Origin and nationality
From the end of 2005 213 inhabitants were 208 ( = 97.65 %), Swiss nationals.
Policy
Parish council
The mayor is Gian special.
Attractions
The village is dominated by Salouf partly residential tower-like Walser houses from the 13th century and by the style and dimensions of impressive houses from the 17th and 18th centuries. The importance of livestock is apparent from the many distributed over the village of wooden houses. Individual houses have been carefully restored facades and sgraffito. Located in the village is also the former Capuchin hospice hidden ( built in 1750 ); the Order possessed great influence in Salouf. The birthplace of the Grisons freedom heroes Benedikt Fontana, a stately building dating from the 17th century, is situated in a Häuserpartie leave the village to Savognin. Also worth seeing is the lovingly restored back from the late 18th century. Salouf originally served well as a fortress, back cover to the dam of Riom Castle. Even today, one discovers in the facing side of the valley to the house walls loopholes.
In the municipality of Salouf is Ziteil, the highest church in Europe. The Sanctuary with pilgrim house is situated at an altitude of 2'429 m above sea level. M.. According to legend, there were two Maria appearances in the summer of 1580. Probably shortly after the second appearance a modest chapel was built in Ziteil. The present church dates from 1848, but was enlarged in 1957 and 1977, again increased and is therefore largely not survived in its origin.
The parish church of St. George (p. Gieri ) stands at the northern end of Salouf. The stately church is dominated by a powerful Campanile, who still goes back in its lower parts in the Romanesque period. From the Romanesque building which was first mentioned in 1290, next to the tower, the surrounding walls of the nave are preserved. 1498 the new building of the choir was completed in 1501 made the construction of the bell chamber womb and the vaulting of the ship. The high altar from the time around 1515 comes from the workshop of Jörg Syrlin ( 1455-1521 ). 1880, the ship was extended by a yoke. 1968 exposed by the restorer Erhard Ressel from Fischingen old fragments of a Gothic painting. The image sequence is well developed in the late 14th century. It is also strange that former Capuchin hospice (now the rectory ).
The mill still preserved Mulegn Vigl from 1877 in the hamlet Mulegn is one of the longest water-powered flour mills in Switzerland and was until the mid- 1990s in operation.
In a ravine below Salouf to over 1100 meters, at the mouth of the mountain stream Balandegn in the Julia, is the old iron melt at the stone Flecs ( Ferreia Istorica ). The molten iron was built from Bludenz 1828 by Martin Versell and 1981 restored by the association "Friends of the mining industry ". The blast furnace was in operation until 1850 and the forge until about 1900. Ore was scattered throughout the valley already degraded 1800-1300 BC, which was presumed reason for the first settlements in the valley. During the Bronze and Iron Ages notches were carved into the mountains in search of precious ore eagerly. In addition to iron ore were also found copper and manganese ores. Disused or collapsed tunnels, demolition fields, but also ruins of ancient iron smelting and huts are witnesses today of the former activity.
Sons and daughters
- Claudia Demarmels (born 1954 ), actress