Zernez

Zernez

Zernez ( [ tsərnɛts ]? / I ) is a municipality in the district Sur Tasna, District Inn of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

Coat of arms

Blazon: Argent ( white ) is an upright, red reinforced black bear, a rooted green fir -supporting

The coat of arms is reminiscent of the many bear stories from the forests of the community. At the same time, it also refers to the family Planta, which was for the community of great importance and a bear paw in the arms led.

Geography

Zernez is located in the wide valley of the Engadine at the confluence of the Inn and Spoel. Zernez 1033 has mostly Romansh inhabitants and lies at an altitude of 1,474 m. The place is the most important starting point for hikes in the Swiss National Park. A popular destination is the hiking hut Cluozza hut. To Zernez include the fraction Brail and the hamlet Carolina.

Population

Languages

Despite changing the language of a small minority from the Romanesque to the Germans in the 19th century the majority of the inhabitants of the ancestral language in the form of the idiom Vallader remained faithful. 1880, 84 % 1900 79% 1941 and 78 % of citizens Romansh as their native language. In the period after the Second World War, the proportion of Romansh is indeed continued to decline, but this is still the majority language. In 1990, 81 % in 2000 and 80 % in Romansh. The development of recent decades shows the following table:

Religions and denominations

In Zernez the Reformation took place in 1553.

Origin and nationality

From the end of 2005 1044 residents were 922 ( = 88 % ) Swiss nationals.

History

Zernez was first mentioned in 1161 as Sarnetz. After a major fire on 5 September 1872 only 40 undamaged left something of 157 houses, became a part of the village in urban style and built with the Engadin otherwise atypical flat roofs again.

Not far north of Zernez is which featured, dating from the 17th and 18th century Castle Wildenberg. In the district Runatsch is an early Baroque parish church of 1609 with rich stucco decorations.

Attractions

  • Baroque Protestant parish church with its Romanesque tower of the previous building.
  • Reformed Gothic chapel of San Bastian. After the Reformation, not used in church and is only since 1952 back in service.
  • Chasa Bezzola.
  • Railway Historical Ensemble at the station.
  • Passing point of the RhB.
  • Schloss Planta - Wildenberg, Medieval Tower House with baroque outbuildings.
  • More tower, medieval residential tower.
  • The new national park, museum to the Swiss National Park.
  • In the district of Brail: medieval Protestant church.
  • Former dam of La Serra
  • Fuorcha, the old court gallows on the border with Susch.

National Park Centre

Evangelical Church

Ehem. medieval tower

Former dam La Serra

Culture

In the tradition of the nickname of the Engadine villages Zernez ils magliachognas hot ( German, " the dog -eaters ").

Personalities

  • Marcus Tatius ' Tatius alpinus " (around 1509-1562 ), humanist, translator and poet
  • In Zernez lives and works of the artist, painter, sculptor and theater director Jacques Guidon, winner of the Grisons Culture Prize in 2006.
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