Tarasp

Tarasp
Former municipality
Lake Tarasp at dawn
Coat of arms
Location of Tarasp
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Coordinates: 46°46′N 10°15′E
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Graubünden
District	Inn
Area
• Total	46.99 km2 (18.14 sq mi)
Elevation	1,403 m (4,603 ft)
Population  (Dec 2014)
• Total	337
• Density	7.2/km2 (19/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	7553
SFOS number	3745
Localities	Fontana, Vulpera, Sparsels, Aschera, Avrona, Chaposch, Chants, Florins, Nairs, Sgnè, Vallatscha
Surrounded by	Ardez, Ftan, Scuol, Tschierv, Zernez
Website	www.tarasp.ch SFSO statistics

Tarasp was a municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Its eleven settlements are situated within the Lower Engadin valley along the Inn River, at the foot of the Sesvenna Range. On 1 January 2015, the former municipalities of Ardez, Guarda, Tarasp, Ftan and Sent merged into the municipality of Scuol.

Originally a Romansh language area, the majority of the population today speaks High Alemannic German. Unlike the surrounding municipalities, the Tarasp parish is mainly Catholic.

History

Tarasp was also a Lordship of the Holy Roman Empire, which joined the Austrian Imperial Circle in 1512 and was passed to the Princes of Dietrichstein in 1683.

Tarasp was an Austrian enclave inside the Free State of the Three Leagues, an associate of the Old Swiss Confederacy until 1809, when Austria ceded the territory to Revolutionary France, who subsequently passed it to Graubünden.

Other websites

• Media related to Tarasp at Wikimedia Commons
• Tarasp in Romansh, German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.