Tamins

Tamins

Tamins (Romansh Tumein? / I ) is a municipality in the district of Trins, District Imboden the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is located about 10 km west of Chur.

Geography

Below the castle rocks of the Reichenau district of the front and rear of the Rhine Rhine unite. West of the station Reichenau- Tamins separates the railway line of the Rhaetian Railway from Chur: A line passes above the town in the Engadine, the other about Disentis to Andermatt.

Coat of arms

Blazon: A Green sechsstrahliger a golden (yellow ) star

The star was already a community seal of 1799. Later coat of arms showed the star in the blue field over green Dreienberg.

Population

Languages

The language change in Tamins of the Romansh language to German was very early. When exactly is unknown. But there was always a small minority Romansh-speaking people. They speak a dialect mittelbündnerische, but traditionally use the Sursilvan as a written language.

The development of recent decades shows the following table:

Origin and nationality

From the end of 2005 1163 residents 88 % were Swiss nationals.

Attractions

  • Reformed Church Tamins
  • Emserbrücke, iron road bridge over the Rhine at Reichenau
  • Behind Rhine bridge Reichenau the Rhaetian Railway
  • Castle bass and Garden
  • Watermill
  • Asphalt processing plant Catram, 2002, Architect: Kurt Lazzarini
  • Road bridge over the Lavoitobel

Personalities

  • Jacob Ragaz (1846-1922), architect
  • Leonhard Ragaz (1868-1945), Reformed theologian
  • Georg Thürer (1908-2000), literary scholar and historian
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