Fuldera is a village in the
Val Müstair
Val Müstair (german: Münstertal) is a municipality in the Engiadina Bassa/Val Müstair Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It was formed on 1 January 2009 through the merger of Tschierv, Fuldera, Lü, Valchava, Santa Maria Val Mü ...
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the district of
Inn
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in the
Swiss canton of
Graubünden. In 2009 Fuldera merged with
Lü,
Müstair,
Santa Maria Val Müstair
Santa Maria Val Müstair ( rm, Soncha Maria) is a village in the Val Müstair municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. In 2009 Santa Maria Val Müstair merged with Lü, Müstair, Fuldera, Tschierv and Valchava to ...
,
Tschierv
Tschierv is a village in the Val Müstair municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. In 2009 Tschierv merged with Fuldera, Lü, Müstair, Santa Maria Val Müstair and Valchava to form the municipality of Val Mà ...
and
Valchava to form the municipality of
Val Müstair
Val Müstair (german: Münstertal) is a municipality in the Engiadina Bassa/Val Müstair Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It was formed on 1 January 2009 through the merger of Tschierv, Fuldera, Lü, Valchava, Santa Maria Val Mü ...
.
[Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz]
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 23 September 2009
History
Fuldera is first mentioned in 1322 as ''Faldiera''.
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Geography
Fuldera had an area, , of . Of this area, 24.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 37.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (36.4%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).[
The village is located in the Val Müstair sub-district (now Val Müstair municipality) of the Inn district. It is located on the right side of the ''Rombach''. It consists of the larger Fuldera-Dora and the smaller Fuldera-Daint.
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Demographics
Fuldera had a population () of 121, of which 6.6% are foreign nationals.[ Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -3.2%.]
accessed 13-Oct-2009
, the gender distribution of the population was 47.9% male and 52.1% female.[Graubunden in Numbers]
accessed 21 September 2009 The age distribution, , in Fuldera is; 20 children or 17.4% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old. 12 teenagers or 10.4% are 10 to 14, and 1 teenager is 15 to 19. Of the adult population, 10 people or 8.7% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 20 people or 17.4% are 30 to 39, 12 people or 10.4% are 40 to 49, and 10 people or 8.7% are 50 to 59. The senior population distribution is 16 people or 13.9% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 6 people or 5.2% are 70 to 79, there are 8 people or 7.0% who are 80 to 89.[Graubunden Population Statistics]
accessed 21 September 2009
In the 2007 federal election
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the most popular party was the SVP which received 44.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (29.4%), the CVP (18.5%) and the FDP (5.9%).[
In Fuldera about 81.8% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a '' Fachhochschule'').][
Fuldera has an unemployment rate of 1.63%. , there were 13 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 6 businesses involved in this sector. 18 people are employed in the ]secondary sector
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and there are 2 businesses in this sector. 17 people are employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 6 businesses in this sector.[
The historical population is given in the following table:]
Languages
Most of the population () speaks Rhaeto-Romance
Rhaeto-Romance, Rheto-Romance, or Rhaetian, is a purported subfamily of the Romance languages that is spoken in south-eastern Switzerland and north-eastern Italy. The name "Rhaeto-Romance" refers to the former Roman province of Raetia. The questi ...
(74.8%), with German being second most common (23.5%) and Italian being third ( 0.9%).[ The Romansh speaking population speak the ]Vallader
Vallader (Vallader, Sursilvan, Puter, Surmiran, and Rumantsch Grischun: ''vallader'' ; Sutsilvan: ') is a variety of the Romansh language spoken in the Lower Engadine valley (''Engiadina Bassa'') of southeast Switzerland, between Martina ...
dialect. Between 1880 and 1980 most of the population spoke Romansh as their first language (1880: 80%, 1941 89% and 1980 95%). In 1990 93% of the population understood Romansh, even if it wasn't their first language, and in 2000 92% understood it.
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Former municipalities of Graubünden