Sarn, Switzerland

Sarn

Sarn was a municipality in the district Thusis in the district of Rhein Behind the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2010 the municipalities Cazis, Portein, Prec, Sarn and Tartar merged to form the new municipality Cazis.

Geography

The scattered village of Sarn is located in the middle of Heinz mountain region and in the west by a mountain range between Tguma limited ( 2163 m above sea level. M. ) and the Präzer altitude (2120 m). The municipality belongs to the large-scale Alp da Sarn, an area with a number of mountain pastures. Of the total municipal area of ​​760 ha 600 ha are therefore usable for agriculture. In addition, 115 acres of woods and forests are covered. Of the remainder, 24 ha settlement area and 21 ha of unproductive area (mostly mountains).

Coat of arms

Description: In keeping red erect a golden (yellow ) lion, in the left paw a golden scale.

Sarn has long been the place of rural municipality and seat of the court for the Heinz Berg and therefore leads the court coat of arms of Heinz Berg continues, with the silver (white ) has been changed color of the lion in gold.

Population

Languages

Originally the inhabitants spoke Sutselvisch, a Grison Romanesque dialect. Already in the 19th century began the change of language. This took place in the interwar period. Gifts in 1880 62 % and 1910 58% Romansh as their mother tongue, this figure had dropped to 1941 to 32%. Until 1980, a shrinking minority Romanesque claimed. Since then, the village is monolingual. Therefore, today is the only German authorities language. The development of recent decades shows the following table:

Origin and nationality

From the end of 2005 141 inhabitants are 138 Swiss nationals.

Attractions

Monumental is the Protestant church.