Tschlin is a former

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in the district of

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in the

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of Graubünden in the extreme east of

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. On 1 January 2013 the municipalities of

Ramosch Ramosch is a former municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2013 the municipalities of Ramosch and Tschlin merged to form the new municipality of Valsot.Valsot Valsot is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Engiadina Bassa/Val Müstair Region in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Graubünden in the extreme east of Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the municipalities of Ramosch and Tschlin ...

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

History

While

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and

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items have been found in Tschlin, the first mention of the village is in the 10th century. In the 10th century,

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Hildibald gave the chapterhouse in

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a gift of a farm house in Tschlin. In the

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Tschlin was under the authority of

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reached the village and in 1574–82 the reformer and historian Ulrich Campell worked in Tschlin. In 1856 a fire destroyed much of the village, including the Church of St. John the Baptist. The church was not rebuilt, but the church tower is still visible in the village.

Geography

Tschlin had an area, , of . Of this area, 28.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 34.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (35.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The former municipality is located in the Ramosch sub-district of the Inn district. It consists of the village of Tschlin on a terrace above the left bank of the

, the sections of Strada and Martina 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 ...

of San Niclà, Chaflur, Sclamischot and Vinadi. Until 1943 Tschlin was known as Schleins.

Demographics

Tschlin had a population (as of 2011) of 442.Swiss Federal Statistics Office – STAT-TAB
''Ständige und Nichtständige Wohnbevölkerung nach Region, Geschlecht, Nationalität und Alter'' accessed 3 October 2012 , 6.3% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 1.8%.
accessed 12-Oct-2009 , the gender distribution of the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female.Graubunden in Numbers
accessed 21 September 2009 The age distribution, , in Tschlin is; 39 children or 9.9% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old. 27 teenagers or 6.9% are 10 to 14, and 14 teenagers or 3.6% are 15 to 19. Of the adult population, 42 people or 10.7% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 59 people or 15.1% are 30 to 39, 54 people or 13.8% are 40 to 49, and 48 people or 12.2% are 50 to 59. The senior population distribution is 37 people or 9.4% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 55 people or 14.0% are 70 to 79, there are 16 people or 4.1% who are 80 to 89, and there are 1 people or 0.3% who are 90 to 99.Graubunden Population Statistics
accessed 21 September 2009 In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 48.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (20.8%), the FDP (14.3%) and the CVP (13.6%). In Tschlin about 62.8% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory

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or additional higher education (either university or a ''

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''). Tschlin has an unemployment rate of 0.81%. , there were 62 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 24 businesses involved in this sector. 28 people are employed in the

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and there are 8 businesses in this sector. 101 people are employed in the

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, with 21 businesses in this sector. The historical population is given in the following table:

Languages

Most of the population () speaks

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(71.4%), with German being second most common (25.5%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 1.0%).

Heritage sites of national significance

The ''Museum Stamparia da Strada'' is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance
21.11.2008 version, accessed 12-Oct-2009

References

{{Authority control Valsot Former municipalities of Graubünden Cultural property of national significance in Graubünden Populated places disestablished in 2013