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 Peel-stones with grooves above the village are
prehistorically.
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The village name "
castrum" reminds on an early
defense-installation. The village-church is mentioned 840 as
Carolingian federal-property, appears about 1340 as own parish
up to the joining to the Reformation before 1537.
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In the 12 century are nobles of Castrisch (1137/39 de
Castrises) mentioned. A castle was situated east of the village.
Present it's only a ruin.
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A protected flat-moor and
animals in original surroundings find nature-friends in the near
Rhine-canyon. Beautiful sandbanks loads to lingering and to enjoying the
splendid landscape.
At the former Rhine-transition Sessafret, today Sassfau, was incumbent
on the medieval court-place of the " free people above the forest
". At the brook west from Castrisch stood six grain-mills in accordance
with tradition until the 19th century. From the former meaning of the
agriculture still begets the houses with arch entrance in the
village-kernel, which today is " subject to the home - and
monument-protection in national meaning ". Close to the Rhine-canyon,
that Swiss Grand Canyon, directly at the front-Rhine is our quiet
village. Amid full-green meadows and fields with groomed footpaths and
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 Castrisch is
still hardly discovered from the tourism. The main street in the
village-kernel is as a protected place of interest under
home-protection and also in the federal inventory. Here we are about
400 people, many of us still speak the Romance language, but all also
German. And so there are no problems, if guests orders native
specialties like Capuns, Maluns, Roast Venison in the
restaurant.
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 In the
roof truss of the old village-church St. Georg lives during
summer months Switzerland's at the present biggest bat colony "horseshoe-nose
". Approximately 140 adult animals raises their brood before
they move into their winter quarters in the rock-walls behind
the village... ...and stone-eagles really are there again! They
draw circles into the blue Grisons heaven and in summer time the
pairs often have also a squeaker close by. Far from the noise,
just in the middle of nowhere, there you find Castrisch.
Nevertheless this middle is in a traffic-wise well developed
valley.
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