Scheid

Scheid ( Tomils )

Scheid ( rätoroman. Sched ) was until December 31, 2008, a municipality in the district Domleschg in the district of Rhein Behind the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

Since January 1, 2009 Scheid belongs together with Feldis / Veulden, Trans and Tumegl / Tomils the new community Tomils.

Coat of arms

Description: Slant Right divided by blue and gold ( yellow), each filled with a six-pointed star in reversed colors. Helical pitch and star are from the coat of arms of Juvalta family that is connected to the local history. The two stars represent by their arrangement, the position of the two places upper and lower Scheid.

Geography

The former mining community located east of Hinterrheins on a high plateau. The eastern boundary of the area was by a mountain range between the Fulhorn ( 2,160 m) formed ( 2'529 m above sea level. M. ) in the south and the Dreibündenstein in the north. To the west is another prominent mountain that Tgom Aulta ( 2,085 m). The former municipality consists of the villages Purz ( German: Oberscheid, 1'329 m. ) And Sched ( German: Under Scheid, 1'221 m), the hamlet Laschignas ( 1,067 m ) and various farms and mountain pastures. Of the total area of 1230 ha 533 ha is arable, most of it as a mountain pastures. In addition, an almost equally large area of ​​516 ha of forest and woodland is covered. To the east of the area to the mountains, which make up 155 ha of unproductive surface charge. The rest of 26 ha settlement area.

Population

Languages

Originally the population Sutselvisch, a Grison Romanesque dialect spoke. Even in 1880 the municipality with 98 % Romansh were almost monolingual. This remained so until 1970 (1910 97 % 1941 92 % 1970 94 % Romansh ). Since then began the decline of the Roman - but remained the novels until 1980 in the majority. A fast language change was made, as the following table shows:

Origin and nationality

From the end of 2005 145 inhabitants were 144 Swiss nationals.

Attractions

Monumental is the Protestant church.