Samnaun

Samnaun

Samnaun (Romansh Samagnun? / I or Samignun? / I ) is a municipality in the district of Ramosch, District Inn, on the eastern edge of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. The municipality consists of the five fractions Compaccio, Laret, plan, and Ravaisch Samnaun. Samnaun is Swiss duty-free area.

• 4.1 languages

• 5.1 Origin and Nationality

Coat of arms

The mussels as a symbol of Saint James the Greater, the patron of the parish church of Compaccio are connected to the cross as a reference to the border community.

Economy

Due to the geographical situation led the only access road to 1912 on Austrian soil. Therefore, it was Swiss Samnaun duty-free area; at the border crossing is only the Austrian customs. The duty-free shopping in Samnaun is especially worthwhile for gasoline, cigars, premium spirits, cosmetics, jewelry, butter, sugar and perfume. The village is in addition to the winter attractions also therefore become a tourist attraction. Tourists from Switzerland must declare goods in excess of the free allowance, at the border crossing in Martina and pay duty.

Suppliers must not declare the goods when imported into Samnaun and can resell respectively cheaper at the local resellers. Although the church raises its own taxes, but these are significantly lower than the Swiss customs records. A lawsuit against these charges was dismissed by the Swiss Federal Court.

With the introduction of the Swiss value added tax on January 1, 1995, the abolition of duty-free status of Samnaun was discussed. Basis of a report, commissioned by the municipality at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in order and showed the negative impact on the economy and jobs in this underdeveloped area, and because of the duty-free tourism would then presumably migrated to Livigno, the duty-free status was Although retained, but the Swiss value added tax with a standard rate at 8.0% and the reduced rates of 3.6 % for hotels and 2.5 % for food, books, etc. introduced in Samnaun.

In order not to have to invest millions of francs in the construction of new customs facilities, the income is estimated in height single digit millions and paid by the municipality from the proceeds of the duties applicable to duty-free products a flat rate to the Federal Tax Administration in Berne. In contrast, no VAT will be added in the not far distant Italian customs free zone of Livigno.

Tourism

Samnaun operates a closed together over the ridge and the border with the ski resort Ischgl in Tyrol, Austria.

It is one of the largest ski areas in the Eastern Alps. Montague began the first double-decker cable car.

Traffic

Until the development of the connection to the neighboring Tyrol Spiss drove to the factory -grade road, which took place in 1830, Samnaun wrong almost exclusively on the neighboring Val Sampuoir and the transition Fuorcia Salet with the outside world. But no later than the mid-19th century pack mule trail lost this meaning.

1912 from Vinadi on Swiss soil leading to Samnaun Samnaunerstrasse is only passable by vehicles up to a maximum vehicle width of 2.3 m and a maximum vehicle height of 3.0 m. The Samnaunerstrasse is also at risk of rockfall and not safe for winter. The main route is the better developed road Tyrolean ground over Spiss.

From the western end of the village of Samnaun is a road leading up to the Zeblasjoch at 2539 meters above sea level, where the border with Austria is exceeded.

Samnaun is connected to the post bus route network. The SamnaunBus connects all the villages in the valley together.

Attractions

• Catholic parish church of St. Jacob
• Chapel Maria Hilf

Population

Languages

The special topographical location and relationship to the neighboring Tyrol led in the 18th and 19th centuries to the fact that the Samnaun residents abandoned their former ancestral bündner Romanesque native language Vallader. As a final Romansch the two sisters Prince are born between 1830 and 1837. Them with the Romansh Samnauner dialect died out at the beginning of the 20th century.

Instead of Romansh joined the Oberinntaler dialect, a dialect of Tyrol. The vocabulary of ' Samnauner dialect ' is therefore recognized in the Bavarian dialects dictionary in Austria.

The number of population groups are covered in the following table from 1980 to 2000:

In Samnaun Portuguese, Serbs and Croats have since immigrated. Your share of the population in Samnaun was about 2 % each in 2000.

Religions and denominations

In 1530 there were in Samnaun supporters of the Reformation. However, since you joined only a portion of the citizens, Montague was for several centuries a parity church ( Reformed and Catholics in the same place ). In 1800 the Reformed or Catholic minority had become migrated through the influence of the Capuchins and the Tyrol.

The Bruder Klaus chapel is still one half each of the Roman Catholic parish and the Reformed parish Tschlin - Strada - Martina. The latter is responsible for the diaspora in Samnaun and holds the pastoral care of tourism.

Origin and nationality

From the end of 2005 824 inhabitants were 675 ( = 82%) Swiss nationals.

Personalities

• Célina Hangl (* 1989), alpine skier
• Marco Hangl (* 1967), skier
• Hangl Martin ( b. 1962 ), skier

Varia

In the 19th century as a result of a genetic defect occurred the phenomenon of Samnauner dwarfs.