Trun is a

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

Surselva Region 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 of Graubünden in

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

. The municipality of Schlans merged on 1 January 2012 into the municipality of Trun.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 21 December 2011 The village was formerly known as Truns and is referred to by that name in some older sources.

History

Trun is first mentioned in 765 as ''Tauronto''.

Geography

Trun has an area, , of . Of this area, 23.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 34% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (40.5%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). Following the 2012 merger, the new area was . Before 2017, the municipality was located in the Disentis sub-district of the Surselva district, after 2017 it was part of the Surselva Region. It consists of the village of Trun and 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 ...

and settlements of Cumadé, Bardigliun, Campliun, Gravas, Caltgadira, Cartatscha, Flutginas, Darvella, Dadens as well as the village section of Zignau. The municipality is in a hazardous location,

avalanche An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a Grade (slope), slope, such as a hill or mountain. Avalanches can be triggered spontaneously, by factors such as increased precipitation or snowpack weakening, or by external means such as humans, othe ...

s (Munt, Cavistrau), rock slides and flooding (Zavragia, Zinzera and Rhein rivers) all threaten the village. Until 1943 Trun was known as Truns.

Demographics

Trun has a population (as of ) of . , 5.1% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -10.2%. Most of the population () speaks Romansh (79.0%), with German being second most common (14.9%) and Italian being third (3.7%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 04-Nov-2009 , the gender distribution of the population was 48.5% male and 51.5% female.Graubunden in Numbers
accessed 21 September 2009 The age distribution, , in Trun is; 156 children or 11.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 175 teenagers or 13.2% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 106 people or 8.0% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 201 people or 15.2% are between 30 and 39, 176 people or 13.3% are between 40 and 49, and 118 people or 8.9% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 177 people or 13.4% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 117 people or 8.9% are between 70 and 79, there are 82 people or 6.2% who are between 80 and 89 there are 14 people or 1.1% who are between 90 and 99.Graubunden Population Statistics
accessed 21 September 2009 In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 67.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (12.4%), the FDP (9.8%) and the SP (8.9%). In Trun about 64.4% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education 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 ...

''). Trun has an unemployment rate of 0.47%. , there were 58 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 24 businesses involved in this sector. 103 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 21 businesses in this sector. 288 people are employed in the

tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the ...

, with 45 businesses in this sector. From the , 1,199 or 90.7% are

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

, while 38 or 2.9% belonged to the

Swiss Reformed Church 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 P ...

. Of the rest of the population, there are 5 individuals (or about 0.38% of the population) who belong to the Orthodox Church, and there are 15 individuals (or about 1.13% of the population) who belong to another Christian church. There are 15 (or about 1.13% of the population) who are

Islam Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...

ic. There are 1 individuals (or about 0.08% of the population) who belong to another church (not listed on the census), 31 (or about 2.34% of the population) belong to no church, are

agnostic Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or unknown in fact. (page 56 in 1967 edition) It can also mean an apathy towards such religious belief and refer to ...

atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

, and 18 individuals (or about 1.36% of the population) did not answer the question. The historical population is given in the following table:

Weather

Trun has an average of 121.2 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 from clouds due to gravitational pull. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, rain and snow mixed ("sleet" in Commonwe ...

. The wettest month is August during which time Trun receives an average of of precipitation. During this month there is precipitation for an average of 12.4 days. The driest month of the year is February with an average of of precipitation over 12.4 days., the weather station elevation is 860 meters above sea level.

Heritage sites of national significance

The ''Cuort Ligia Grischa'' house is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The villages of Trun and Schlans are part of the

Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites The Federal Inventory of Heritage Sites (ISOS) is part of a 1981 Ordinance of the Swiss Federal Council implementing the Federal Law on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage. Sites of national importance Types The types are based on t ...

.Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance
21.11.2008 version, accessed 04-Nov-2009

Transportation

Trun railway station is located on the Reichenau-Tamins–Disentis/Mustér line of the

Rhaetian Railway The Rhaetian Railway (; ; ), abbreviated RhB, is a Swiss transport company that owns the largest network of all private railway operators in Switzerland. Headquartered in Chur, the RhB operates all the railway lines of the Cantons of Switzerland, ...

References

External links

* {{Authority control Cultural property of national significance in Graubünden