Tavanasa

Danis - Tavanasa ( [ ˌ dɐ nistɐvɐnazɐ ]? / I ) is a fraction of the community Breil / Brigels in the Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. By the end of 2009 lived in Danis - Tavanasa 449 people.

Danis

Danis is on the left side of the Anterior Rhine at the beginning of the road up to Brigels at an altitude of 842 m above sea level

The place name is mentioned in the year 765 in the will of Bishop Tello as Anives. 1581 built by Christian Abt Castelberg in Danis to ward off the Reformation Trinity Chapel. The present Trinity Church was built in 1656 and 1995/1996 rebuilt. Danis is the site of the primary school of the Group and part of the overall community Brigels and the entire secondary and high school.

Tavanasa

Tavanasa ▼ 46.7542479.063269, a ribbon village of around 600 meters in length, is something deeper than Danis in the valley of the Anterior Rhine on the right side of the river at an altitude of 788 m above sea level

The village was mentioned in documents in 765 by Bishop Tello as Abbatissae, 1470 as thafanatzen. After 1185, the Peter Bach formed east of Tavanasa the eastern border of the Cadi, the region around the location, the valley Disentis / Muster.

The school children of Tavanasa attend school either in Danis on the other side of the river or in Breil / Brigels.

Immediately above Tavanasa lie on an almost inaccessible rock, the ruins of the castle Heideberg. This is on the reaching down municipality of Obersaxen.

Transport and the economy

Danis - Tavanasa is connected since 1890 by the main road with about 350 meters higher lying Brigels. With Brigels Danis - Tavanasa is also connected by a post bus line. North of the village is the station of the Rhaetian Railway Tavanasa-Breil/Brigels since 1912.

1905 was designed by the Bernese engineer and bridge builder Robert Maillart between Tavanasa and Danis a bridge over the Rhine, his first three-joint box beam, which was founded in 1927 largely destroyed by a debris flow. The present bridge is a construction of 1928.

Since 1946 Danis - Tavanasa is for the Electric Power Industry of importance. Axpo AG maintains a balance up the valley basin of the power plant Tavanasa - Obersaxen.