Tenna is a former

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

in the district of

Surselva Surselva Region is one of the eleven administrative districts in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It was created on 1 January 2017 as part of a reorganization of the canton.canton Canton may refer to: Administrative divisions * Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries * Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French Arts and entertainment * Canton (band), an It ...

of Graubünden in

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. The municipalities of

Valendas Valendas is a former municipality in the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. The municipalities of Valendas, Versam, Safien and Tenna merged on 1 January 2013 into the new municipality of Safiental.

Versam Versam is a former municipality in the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. The municipalities of Valendas, Versam, Safien and Tenna merged on 1 January 2013 into the new municipality of Safiental.

Safien Safien is a former Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Surselva (district), Surselva in the Switzerland, Swiss Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Graubünden. The municipalities of Valendas, Versam, Safien and Tenna, Swi ...

and Tenna merged on 1 January 2013 into the new municipality of

Safiental Safiental () is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Surselva Region in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. The municipalities of Valendas, Versam, Safien and Tenna, Switzerland, Tenna merged on 1 Jan ...

.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 2 January 2013

History

Tenna is first mentioned in 1398 as ''Thena''. The significant incidence of

hemophilia Haemophilia (British English), or hemophilia (American English) (), is a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding. This results in people bleeding for a long ...

in the population was documented in the mid 1800s and then later (1909) referenced by Bulloch and Fildes in "Treasury of Human Inheritance."

Coat of arms

The

blazon In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct an accurate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The visual d ...

of the municipal

coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments), originating in Europe. The coat of arms on an escutcheon f ...

is ''Gules St. Valentin clad Argent and caped Or with his dexter raised in blessing and holding in sinister a crosier of the last. '' The figure of Valentin von Rätien (an early bishop of

Passau Passau (; ) is a city in Lower Bavaria, Germany. It is also known as the ("City of Three Rivers"), as the river Danube is joined by the Inn (river), Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north. Passau's population is about 50,000, of whom ...

) comes from the municipal seal, where he is also represented as a seated figure.

Geography

Tenna had an area, , of . Of this area, 45.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 34% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (19.8%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The former municipality is located in the Safien sub-district of the Surselva district. It is a German-speaking collection of small settlements on a terrace above the west side of the Safien Valley. It consists of the village of Tenna which is made up of the sections of Ausserberg, Mitte, and Innerberg as well as the

hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined f ...

of Acla and Egschi along the valley road.

Ticks

Tenna is mostly in a

tick Ticks are parasitic arachnids of the order Ixodida. They are part of the mite superorder Parasitiformes. Adult ticks are approximately 3 to 5 mm in length depending on age, sex, and species, but can become larger when engorged. Ticks a ...

-free / low-risk area. However, as you move lower down to areas with higher humidity and warmer temperatures, such as the

Rabiusa The Rabiusa (, i.e. "Raging", in the local German dialect ,Swiss Idiotikon, vol. VI, col. 996, articl''Rin''(meaning 1b) i.e. "Rhine") is a 32 km long tributary of the Rhine. The river originates in the district Hinterrhein in the canton ...

, the risk of ticks increases. Nearby municipalities, such as

, show up as hot (high-risk) in Switzerland's tick bite model.

Heritage sites of national significance

The

Swiss Reformed The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member churches – 24 cantonal churches and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland. The PC ...

church in Tenna is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Solar ski lift

In February 2012, the world’s first

solar-powered Solar power, also known as solar electricity, is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Solar panels use the photovoltaic effect to conve ...

ski lift A ski lift is a mechanism for transporting skiers up a hill. Ski lifts are typically a Lift ticket, paid service at ski resorts. The first ski lift was built in 1908 by German Robert Winterhalder in Schollach/Eisenbach, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, ...

was completed in Tenna. It is 450 meters long and has the capacity to pull 800 skiers up the mountain per hour. The lift uses approximately 80 solar panels, which are expected to produce around 90,000 kWh of energy per year—of which only 22,000 kWh are required for the operation of the ski lift. The excess power is sold to the grid.

Demographics

, Tenna has a population of 110Swiss Federal Statistics Office – STAT-TAB
''Ständige und Nichtständige Wohnbevölkerung nach Region, Geschlecht, Nationalität und Alter'' accessed 3 October 2012—recovering from a historical low of 79 in 2000. , 3.9% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. : * most of the population speaks

Swiss German Swiss German (Standard German: , ,Because of the many different dialects, and because there is no #Conventions, defined orthography for any of them, many different spellings can be found. and others; ) is any of the Alemannic German, Alemannic ...

(98.7%), with the rest speaking Serbo-Croatian (1.3%, or exactly 1 person).Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 02-Dec-2009 * the gender distribution was 47.4% male and 52.6% female.Graubunden in Numbers
accessed 21 September 2009 * the age distribution was as follows:Graubunden Population Statistics
accessed 21 September 2009

Education

Around 74.4% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory

upper secondary education Secondary education is the education level following primary education and preceding tertiary education. Level 2 or ''lower secondary education'' (less commonly ''junior secondary education'') is considered the second and final phase of basic e ...

or additional higher education (either university or a ''

fachhochschule A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a Hochschule, German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, te ...

''). The nearest fachhochschules to Tenna are in

Chur '' Chur (locally) or ; ; ; ; ; ; or ; , and . is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, town of the Switzerland, Swiss Cantons of Switzerland, canton of the Grisons and lies in the Alpine Rhine, Grisonian Rhine Valley, where ...

, such as the Chur University of Applied Sciences and

Fachhochschule Graubünden A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, technology, ...

Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 54.7% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (20.3%), the FDP (14.2%) and the CVP (5.2%).

Economy

, Tenna has an unemployment rate of 0%. Employment and businesses were organized as follows:

Agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

is the largest economic activity in Tenna, particularly hay harvesting for which there are government subsidies. There is just one cattle farm left in the village and it produces dairy and beef products. The second largest economic activity is

tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as ...

. Visitors come to Tenna in the winter for skiing and in the summer for hiking,

agritourism Agritourism or agrotourism involves any agriculturally based operation or activity that brings visitors to a farm or ranch. It encompasses a wide range of activities, including direct-to-consumer sales such as farm stands and u-pick, agricultu ...

, and rafting and kayaking (at the nearby

Versam-Safien railway station Versam-Safien railway station is a station on the Reichenau-Tamins–Disentis/Mustér railway of the Rhaetian Railway in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is situated alongside the Anterior Rhine, in the railway's scenic passage through the R ...

). Despite its small size, Tenna has a hotel, holiday apartments, and bed and breakfasts. There is also a Volg Mini store that serves the essential shopping needs of locals and visitors.

Transportation

Tenna is accessible by just one road that splits off from Acla / Ober Egshi. Tenna has a

PostAuto PostAuto Switzerland, PostBus Ltd. (known as in Swiss Standard German (), in Swiss French (), in Swiss Italian (), and in Romansh () is a subsidiary company of the Swiss Post, which provides regional and rural bus services throughout Switz ...

bus stop at the Volg Mini store. The bus connects Tenna to

and

via the Aclatobel Tunnel built in 1994.

Gallery

File:ETH-BIB-Tenna-LBS H1-011558.tif, Aerial view (1949) File:Innerbärg road in Tenna.jpg, Tenna's Innerbärg road File:Farm in Tenna.jpg, Farm in Tenna File:Cow warning in Tenna.jpg, Cow warning in Tenna File:Cows of Tenna.jpg, Cows grazing in Tenna File:Alpine marmot in Tenna.jpg, Alpine

marmot Marmots are large ground squirrels in the genus ''Marmota'', with 15 species living in Asia, Europe, and North America. These herbivores are active during the summer, when they can often be found in groups, but are not seen during the winter, w ...

in Tenna File:Top of Ausserberg road in Tenna.jpg, Tenna's Usserbarg road File:Barn with firewood in Tenna (north view).jpg, Barn in Tenna with firewood File:Splitting wood in Tenna.jpg, A resident of Tenna preparing firewood File:Swiss National Day in Tenna 02.jpg,

Swiss National Day Swiss National Day (; ; ; ) is the national holiday of Switzerland, set on 1 August. Although the founding of the Swiss Confederacy was first celebrated on this date in 1891 and annually since 1899, it has only been an official holiday since ...

in Tenna

References

{{authority control Villages in Graubünden Former municipalities of Graubünden Safiental