Sursés (german: Oberhalbstein) is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the

Albula Region Albula Region is one of the eleven administrative districts in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It had an area of and a population of (as of ).. It was created on 1 January 2017 as part of a reorganization of the Canton. Mergers ...

of the

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canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of

Bivio Bivio ( rm, Beiva, german: Stallen) is a village and former municipality in the Sursés in the district of Albula of the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Bivio, Cunter, Marmorera, Mulegns, Riom-Pars ...

Cunter Cunter ( Romansh, in German: Conters im Oberhalbstein) is a village and former municipality in the Sursés in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Bivio, Cunter, Marmo ...

Marmorera Marmorera (german: Marmels) is a village and former municipality in the Sursés in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Bivio, Cunter, Marmorera, Mulegns, Riom-Parson ...

Mulegns Mulegns is a village and a former municipality in the Sursés in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Bivio, Cunter, Marmorera, Mulegns, Riom-Parsonz, Salouf, Savog ...

Riom-Parsonz Riom-Parsonz is a former municipality in the Sursés in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It was created from the 1979 union of the villages of ''Riom'' and ''Parsonz''. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalitie ...

Salouf Salouf (until 1943 officially called Salux) is a village and former municipality in the Sursés in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Bivio, Cunter, Marmorera, Mu ...

Savognin Savognin (in local Romansh dialect ''Suagnign''; it, Savognino; german: Schweiningen, official name until 1890) is a village and former municipality in the Sursés in the district of Albula in the canton of Grisons in Switzerland. On 1 January 20 ...

, Sur and

Tinizong-Rona Tinizong-Rona is a former municipality in the district of Albula in the Sursés in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It was formed in 1998 from the villages of ''Tinizong'' and '' Rona''. The local administration is situated in Tinizong. ...

merged to form the new municipality of Sursés.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 27 April 2016.

History

Bivio

Bivio is first mentioned about 840 as ''de stabulo Bivio''. At one time it was known, in German, as ''Stallen'' and until 1895/1903 by its Italian name ''Stalla''.

Cunter

Cunter is first mentioned in 1370 as ''Contra''.

Marmorera

Marmorera is first mentioned about 840 as ''ad Marmoraria''. The old village was destroyed and flooded when the Marmorera dam was constructed. The current village was built above

Lai da Marmorera Lai da Marmorera is a reservoir in the Grisons, Switzerland. It is part of the Parc Ela nature park. The lake with a surface area of formed after the completion of the Marmorera dam in 1954 when the old village of Marmorera was flooded. The vi ...

Mulegns

Near Mulegns, around 600-500 BC, a

copper Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from la, cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkis ...

mine and

smelter Smelting is a process of applying heat to ore, to extract a base metal. It is a form of extractive metallurgy. It is used to extract many metals from their ores, including Silver mining#Ore processing, silver, iron-making, iron, copper extracti ...

were built in the Val Faller (Faller valley). The village was founded by a

Walser The Walser people are the speakers of the Walser German dialects, a variety of Highest Alemannic. They inhabit the region of the Alps of Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as well as the fringes of Italy and Austria. The Walser people are named af ...

group during the 15th Century. It was first mentioned in 1521.

Riom-Parsonz

Riom-Parsonz was created from the 1979 union of the municipalities of Parsonz and Riom. Riom is first mentioned in 841 as ''villa Riamio'' and in

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it was known as ''Reams''. The other half, Parsonz is first mentioned in 1156 as ''Presan'' and in German it was known as ''Präsanz''. Riom was inhabited during the

Roman era In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC ...

, from the 1st century through the 4th. During this time, it was a

mansio In the Roman Empire, a ''mansio'' (from the Latin word ''mansus,'' the perfect passive participle of ''manere'' "to remain" or "to stay") was an official stopping place on a Roman road, or ''via'', maintained by the central government for the use ...

or way-station along the

Julier Pass The Julier Pass ( Romansh: ''Pass dal Güglia'', German: ''Julierpass'', Italian ''Passo del Giulia'') (el. 2284 m) is a mountain pass in Switzerland, in the Albula Alps. It connects the Engadin valley with central Graubünden, the nearest inhab ...

road. After the

Fall of the Western Roman Empire The fall of the Western Roman Empire (also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Ancient Rome, Rome) was the loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire, a process in which the Empire failed to enforce its rul ...

, farmers and herders continued to live here during the

Early Middle Ages The Early Middle Ages (or early medieval period), sometimes controversially referred to as the Dark Ages, is typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th or early 6th century to the 10th century. They marked the start of the Mi ...

. In 840 it was personally owned by the king of

Raetia Curiensis Raetia Curiensis (in Latin; german: Churrätien, rm, Currezia) was an early medieval province in Central Europe, named after the preceding Roman province of ''Raetia prima'' which retained its Romansh culture during the Migration Period, while t ...

and a local administrative center.

Salouf

Salouf is first mentioned in 1160 as ''Salugo''.

Savognin

Savognin is first mentioned in 1154 as ''Sueningin''. An important

Bronze Age The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ...

settlement is located on the Padnal hill to the south of town. In multiple excavations, many discoveries have been made, mostly from the period between 1800 and 1000 B.C. At least since the time of the

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, important travel routes have passed through the Julier and Septimer passes. Savognin came into the possession of the Bishops of

Chur , neighboring_municipalities= Arosa, Churwalden, Tschiertschen-Praden, Domat/Ems, Felsberg, Malix, Trimmis, Untervaz, Pfäfers , twintowns = Bad Homburg (Germany), Cabourg (France), Mayrhofen (Austria), Mondorf-les-Bains (Luxembourg), ...

in the 13th century. As part of the court of Oberhalbstein, for which Savognin acted as principal town and rural area, the town became a member of the

League of God's House The League of God's House (German: ''Gotteshausbund'', Italian: ''Lega Caddea'', rm, ) was formed in what is now Switzerland on 29 January 1367, to resist the rising power of the Bishopric of Chur and the House of Habsburg. The League allied wi ...

. After its sale in 1552, the valley attained full sovereignty as part of the Free State of the

Three Leagues The Three Leagues, sometimes referred to as Raetia, was the alliance of 1471 of the League of God's House, the League of the Ten Jurisdictions, and the Grey League, leading eventually to the formation of the Swiss canton of Graubünden (Grisons) ...

. The cattle industry and traffic through the passes formed the economic framework of the community since the Middle Ages. Periods of increase, for example, after Mount ''Crap Ses'' was blown up in 1777, or when the Julier Road was improved between 1820 and 1840, were always followed by periods of decrease, most recently from too much competition after the opening of the

Gotthardbahn The Gotthard railway (german: Gotthardbahn; it, Ferrovia del Gottardo) is the Swiss trans-alpine railway line from northern Switzerland to the canton of Ticino. The line forms a major part of an important international railway link between nort ...

in 1882. At this stage Savognin was thrown back to being a peasants' village, and missed the next connection to the development of tourism. Jenische families were granted citizenship in the middle of the 19th century, as part of the ''Law for the fight against Homelessness''. The ascent to foreign vacation destination began only in the 1960s, with the construction of hotels, vacation apartments and aerial ropeways (

Piz Martegnas Piz Martegnas is a mountain of the Oberhalbstein Alps, overlooking Savognin in Graubünden, Switzerland. Piz Martegnas is part of a ski area, a chair lift station lies 11 metres below the summit. See also *List of mountains of Switzerland acc ...

); the village was changing.

Sur

The nearby

Spliatsch Castle Spliatsch Castle (german: Burg Spliatsch) is a ruined castle in the municipality of Surses in the Albula Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. History Very little is known about the early history of this castle. It was built alon ...

was built around the beginning of the 13th Century by the Marmels family. In 1663 the

Capuchin friars The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (; postnominal abbr. O.F.M. Cap.) is a religious order of Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church, one of Three " First Orders" that reformed from the Franciscan Friars Minor Observant (OFM Obs., now OFM) ...

built the

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

church of S. Catregna (Katharina) on the ruined foundations of the

medieval In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the Post-classical, post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with t ...

church of St. Bartholomäus. Today this church, together with the villages of

and

form a

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

. Until 1850 Sur was part of the municipality of Oberhalbstein in the

. Before the construction of the

Rhaetian Railway The Rhaetian Railway (german: Rhätische Bahn; it, Ferrovia retica; rm, Viafier retica), abbreviated RhB, is a Swiss transport company that owns the largest network of all private railway operators in Switzerland. Headquartered in Chur, the RhB ...

Sur was a cluster of farm houses and a major side industry was providing guides to travellers.

Tinizong-Rona

Tinizong is mentioned during the Nervan–Antonine dynasty (96 to 192) of the

Roman Empire The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediterr ...

as ''Tinetione'', a station on the Roman

Septimer Pass Septimer Pass (German: ''Septimerpass'', Italian: ''Passo del Settimo'', Romansh: ''Pass da Sett''; elevation ) is a high mountain pass in the canton of Graubünden in the Swiss Alps between the valleys of Bregaglia (Bergell) and Surses (Ober ...

route. Rona is first mentioned in 1330 as ''Rouenam''. In 1377 it was mentioned as ''Rouvena'', and in 1412 as ''Rofna''.

Geography

Sursés has an area of . The lake

Lai Lung Lai Lung is a lake near Riom-Parsonz Riom-Parsonz is a former municipality in the Sursés in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It was created from the 1979 union of the villages of ''Riom'' and ''Parsonz''. On ...

is within its boundaries.

Demographics

Sursés has a population (as of ) of .

Historic Population

The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1100 height:800 PlotArea = height:610 left:100 bottom:90 right:100 Legend = columns:3 left:220 top:70 columnwidth:160 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:2800 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:500 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:100 start:0 Colors= id:BI value:yellowgreen legend:Bivio id:CU value:green legend:Cunter id:MA value:blue legend:Marmorera id:MU value:red legend:Mulegns id:RI value:yellow legend:Riom-Parsonz id:SA value:orange legend:Salouf id:SAV value:coral legend:Savognin id:SU value:powderblue legend:Sur id:TI value:pink legend:Tinizong-Rona PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:30 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from: 0 till:211 text:"211" color:BI bar:1860 from: 0 till:212 text:"212" color:BI bar:1870 from: 0 till:208 text:"208" color:BI bar:1880 from: 0 till:163 text:"163" color:BI bar:1888 from: 0 till:158 text:"158" color:BI bar:1900 from: 0 till:141 text:"141" color:BI bar:1910 from: 0 till:129 text:"129" color:BI bar:1920 from: 0 till:121 text:"121" color:BI bar:1930 from: 0 till:135 text:"135" color:BI bar:1941 from: 0 till:172 text:"172" color:BI bar:1950 from: 0 till:224 text:"224" color:BI bar:1960 from: 0 till:188 text:"188" color:BI bar:1970 from: 0 till:230 text:"230" color:BI bar:1980 from: 0 till:238 text:"238" color:BI bar:1990 from: 0 till:223 text:"223" color:BI bar:2000 from: 0 till:204 text:"204" color:BI bar:1850 from: 211 till:393 text:"182" color:CU bar:1860 from: 212 till:377 text:"165" color:CU bar:1870 from: 208 till:374 text:"166" color:CU bar:1880 from: 163 till:327 text:"164" color:CU bar:1888 from: 158 till:314 text:"156" color:CU bar:1900 from: 141 till:293 text:"152" color:CU bar:1910 from: 129 till:281 text:"152" color:CU bar:1920 from: 121 till:271 text:"150" 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text:"27" color:MA bar:1980 from: 379 till:406 text:"27" color:MA bar:1990 from: 398 till:436 text:"38" color:MA bar:2000 from: 402 till:451 text:"49" color:MA bar:1850 from: 549 till:669 text:"120" color:MU bar:1860 from: 536 till:670 text:"134" color:MU bar:1870 from: 530 till:652 text:"122" color:MU bar:1880 from: 478 till:601 text:"123" color:MU bar:1888 from: 465 till:595 text:"130" color:MU bar:1900 from: 436 till:582 text:"146" color:MU bar:1910 from: 419 till:525 text:"106" color:MU bar:1920 from: 371 till:471 text:"100" color:MU bar:1930 from: 374 till:473 text:"99" color:MU bar:1941 from: 427 till:531 text:"104" color:MU bar:1950 from: 516 till:625 text:"109" color:MU bar:1960 from: 332 till:389 text:"57" color:MU bar:1970 from: 373 till:439 text:"66" color:MU bar:1980 from: 406 till:456 text:"50" color:MU bar:1990 from: 436 till:473 text:"37" color:MU bar:2000 from: 451 till:484 text:"33" color:MU bar:1850 from: 669 till:1086 text:"417" color:RI bar:1860 from: 670 till:1051 text:"381" color:RI bar:1870 from: 652 till:1008 text:"356" color:RI bar:1880 from: 601 till:1001 text:"400" color:RI bar:1888 from: 595 till:967 text:"372" color:RI bar:1900 from: 582 till:916 text:"334" color:RI bar:1910 from: 525 till:854 text:"329" color:RI bar:1920 from: 471 till:805 text:"334" color:RI bar:1930 from: 473 till:812 text:"339" color:RI bar:1941 from: 531 till:871 text:"340" color:RI bar:1950 from: 625 till:975 text:"350" color:RI bar:1960 from: 389 till:665 text:"276" color:RI bar:1970 from: 439 till:727 text:"288" color:RI bar:1980 from: 456 till:719 text:"263" color:RI bar:1990 from: 473 till:770 text:"297" color:RI bar:2000 from: 484 till:811 text:"327" color:RI bar:1850 from: 1086 till:1499 text:"413" color:SA bar:1860 from: 1051 till:1415 text:"364" color:SA bar:1870 from: 1008 till:1355 text:"347" color:SA bar:1880 from: 1001 till:1325 text:"324" color:SA bar:1888 from: 967 till:1277 text:"310" color:SA bar:1900 from: 916 till:1203 text:"287" color:SA bar:1910 from: 854 till:1134 text:"280" color:SA bar:1920 from: 805 till:1099 text:"294" color:SA bar:1930 from: 812 till:1072 text:"260" color:SA bar:1941 from: 871 till:1160 text:"289" color:SA bar:1950 from: 975 till:1264 text:"289" color:SA bar:1960 from: 665 till:898 text:"233" color:SA bar:1970 from: 727 till:933 text:"206" color:SA bar:1980 from: 719 till:876 text:"157" color:SA bar:1990 from: 770 till:955 text:"185" color:SA bar:2000 from: 811 till:1016 text:"205" color:SA bar:1850 from: 1499 till:1968 text:"469" color:SAV bar:1860 from: 1415 till:1924 text:"509" color:SAV bar:1870 from: 1355 till:1861 text:"506" color:SAV bar:1880 from: 1325 till:1829 text:"504" color:SAV bar:1888 from: 1277 till:1782 text:"505" color:SAV bar:1900 from: 1203 till:1647 text:"444" color:SAV bar:1910 from: 1134 till:1611 text:"477" color:SAV bar:1920 from: 1099 till:1616 text:"517" color:SAV bar:1930 from: 1072 till:1588 text:"516" color:SAV bar:1941 from: 1160 till:1736 text:"576" color:SAV bar:1950 from: 1264 till:2030 text:"766" color:SAV bar:1960 from: 898 till:1530 text:"632" color:SAV bar:1970 from: 933 till:1753 text:"820" color:SAV bar:1980 from: 876 till:1728 text:"852" color:SAV bar:1990 from: 955 till:1832 text:"877" color:SAV bar:2000 from: 1016 till:1898 text:"882" color:SAV bar:1850 from: 1968 till:2131 text:"163" color:SU bar:1860 from: 1924 till:2095 text:"171" color:SU bar:1870 from: 1861 till:2038 text:"177" color:SU bar:1880 from: 1829 till:1981 text:"152" color:SU bar:1888 from: 1782 till:1919 text:"137" color:SU bar:1900 from: 1647 till:1825 text:"178" color:SU bar:1910 from: 1611 till:1785 text:"174" color:SU bar:1920 from: 1616 till:1768 text:"152" color:SU bar:1930 from: 1588 till:1729 text:"141" color:SU bar:1941 from: 1736 till:1925 text:"189" color:SU bar:1950 from: 2030 till:2257 text:"227" color:SU bar:1960 from: 1530 till:1685 text:"155" color:SU bar:1970 from: 1753 till:1875 text:"122" color:SU bar:1980 from: 1728 till:1840 text:"112" color:SU 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Weather

The Bivio weather station has an average of 132.1 days of rain per year and on average receives of

precipitation In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravitational pull from clouds. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, ice pellets, graupel and hail. ...

. The wettest month is August during which time Bivio receives an average of of precipitation. During this month there is precipitation for an average of 11.9 days. The month with the most days of precipitation is May, with an average of 13.1, but with only of precipitation. The driest month of the year is February with an average of of precipitation over 11.9 days., the weather station elevation is 1801 meters above sea level. The Savognin weather station has an average of 104.3 days of rain per year and on average receives of

. The wettest month is August during which time Savognin receives an average of of precipitation. During this month there is precipitation for an average of 11.8 days. The driest month of the year is February with an average of of precipitation over 11.8 days.

Heritage sites of national significance

The archeological discovery of a

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mountain shrine in the Julier pass near Bivio, Riom Castle in Riom-Parsonz, the Chasa Fontana No. 26 in Salouf, the ''Son Martegn Church'' and the ''Padnal/Mot la Cresta'' (a

settlement) in Savognin, the Church of ''S. Plasch'' (St. Blasius) and the ''Chasa Cresta Nr. 5'' in Tinizong-Rona are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance. The Church of ''Son Martegn'', built in 1677 in the Central Form style, with a cross-shaped base. It has a monumental fresco painted in 1681 by Carlo Nuvolone from

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

. The Church of ''S. Plasch'' was first mentioned in 1180. In 1512 the side altars were rebuilt. In 1663 it was rebuilt from the original

gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...

style by the

Notable residents

The Italian painter

Giovanni Segantini Giovanni Segantini (15 January 1858 – 28 September 1899) was an Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps. He was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century, and his paintings were collected by ...

lived in Savognin between 1886 and 1894, and developed his style there. He is famous for his landscapes with Mounts ''Piz Curver'' and ''Piz Tiossa'' in the background.

Trivia

The 2007 Swiss mystery film ''

'' was filmed in Marmorera and at the dam reservoir.

References

External links

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