Lü Parish, Graubünden, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Lü Parish, Graubünden, Switzerland, ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, parish census, civil census, family history, area history, and military records.



Geography
The village and former municipality of Lü is in the Val Müstair municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is one of the highest villages in Europe, at an elevation of 1,920 m (6,300 ft) on a terrace above the left bank of the Rombach and includes the village of Lü and the hamlet of Lüsai.

Lü (as of 2006) has an area of 6.8 km² (2.6 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 45.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 34.5% - forested
 * 1.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 18.6% - non-productive

History
In 1466, Lü was first mentioned by the name of Lug.

Lü merged into the Val Müstair municipality on 1 January 2009. Other municipalities merged include:
 * Fuldera
 * Müstair
 * Santa Maria Val Müstair
 * Tschierv
 * Valchava

The population history of Lü is: 1835 - 74 inhabitants 1850 - 95 inhabitants 1900 - 59 inhabitants 1950 - 56 inhabitants 1980 - 56 inhabitants 2000 - 62 inhabitants 2008 - 63 inhabitants

From the end of the 15th century, Lü belonged spiritually to St. Maria. Around 1530, the Reformation was adopted. After that, Lü was associated with the parish of Fuldera; in the 1820s it had its own vicar.

Church Records
Original church records are held in the local municipal archive or civil registration office. Microfilm copies are available at the Graubünden State Archives.

Digital images of church records are available on FamilySearch. These records have a restriction for use only at a FamilySearch center near you.

Reformed
After Lü became Reformed, it belonged to the parish of Fuldera until 1854. Church records begin in 1837. See Fuldera for earlier records. The following volume is available on FamilySearch:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1837-1875

Census
(See here for information regarding Graubünden census records.)

These censuses enumerated Lü and the village of Lüsai separately.

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Lü and Lüsai:

Lü


 * 1835
 * 1838
 * 1848
 * 1850
 * 1850, form C

Lüsai


 * 1835
 * 1838
 * 1848
 * 1850
 * 1850, form C

Civil Registration
Civil registration began in 1876.

Duplicate civil registration registers are located at the Graubünden State Archives. The following records are available:
 * Both A and B registers are available through 1916-1917 and are open without restriction.
 * Family registers are available from at latest 1860 through 1910; these records are viewable but require permission to access. For more information, contact the State Archive.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Lü prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in Romansh and German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Graubünden

Societies
Rätische Vereinigung für Familienforschung (RVFF)

Società Genealogica della Svizzera italiana (SGSI)