Tarasp

Former municipality of Switzerland
	Coat of arms
	Location of Tarasp Lua error in Module:Infobox_mapframe at line 118: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
	Coordinates: 46°46′N 10°15′E / 46.767°N 10.250°ECoordinates: 46°46′N 10°15′E / 46.767°N 10.250°E
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Graubünden
District	Inn
Area
• Total	46.9 km2 (18.1 sq mi)
Elevation	1,403 m (4,603 ft)
Population (Dec 2014)
• Total	337
• Density	7.186/km2 (18.61/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	7553
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.^[1]

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.

↑ Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (in German) accessed 27 April 2016

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Former municipality of Switzerland

Coat of arms
Location of Tarasp Lua error in Module:Infobox_mapframe at line 118: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).

Coordinates: 46°46′N 10°15′E / 46.767°N 10.250°E / 46.767; 10.250Coordinates: 46°46′N 10°15′E / 46.767°N 10.250°E / 46.767; 10.250
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Graubünden
District	Inn
Area
• Total	46.9 km² (18.1 sq mi)
Elevation	1,403 m (4,603 ft)
Population (Dec 2014)
• Total	337
• Density	7.186/km² (18.61/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	7553
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