Tartar, Switzerland

Tartar GR

Tartar was a municipality in the district Thusis, District Hinterrhein 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

Tartar is located on the outer Heinz mountain. It has enough children to operate its own school. Through a generous sponsorship the Basel Muttenz community itself Tartar could afford a private community house, which is like all publicly-owned buildings supplied by a small creek power plant with electricity. While few people work within the community, the tourism for some, a sideline. On the communal land are a number of houses; 1,100 overnight stays by tourists are recorded annually. One-third of its territory is covered by forest.

Coat of arms

Description: Divided by a red bar at the top of Silver ( White ) is a growing blue, red reinforced lion, down in the clouds interface shared by silver and blue. The lion stands for belonging to the community for former court Thusis, the clouds cut is one element of the coat of arms of the lords of stone Look, the landlords were in place.

Population

Languages

Until the 19th century the population of Sutselvisch, a Grison Romanesque dialect spoke. The language shift towards the Germans was very early. 1860 and 1870, the community was still a mixture of languages ​​, but in 1888 gave only 44 ( = 24 %) of the then 185 inhabitants Romansh as their native language. This value decreased to 1910 and 1941 to 20% to 11%. Today the church is almost monolingual. German is the only language authorities. The development of recent decades shows the following table:

Origin and nationality

From the end of 2005 173 inhabitants were 169 ( = 97.69 %), Swiss nationals.

History

Is first mentioned in 1290 as a Tartar Tartere, which means as much as steppe, raw land or wasteland. Then under the Tartar lords of stone Look who lived in the castle honor rock. While it is spoken today in Tartar almost exclusively German, it was formerly a Romansh community, which many place names indicate. Between 1530 and 1540 the village was reformed.

Originally Tartar a far greater community than today and dominated by wine and chestnut cultivation. But when in 1806 a large fire destroyed most of the houses, stables and barns of tartar, many residents had perforce to sell their agricultural and grazing land to neighboring communities in order to keep afloat financially.

Attractions

Monumental is the Protestant church.