Historic Center of Bergün

Formerly a place where people changed horses and spent the night. After the completion of the Albula Railway, they were excited to compete with St. Moritz and built a magnificent spa hotel. But the tourists stayed away and so Bergün was spared real estate speculation and is largely authentic today.

Between Bergün and Preda lies the most astonishing section of the railway line to St. Moritz: After leaving Bergün, you can see the village three more times, albeit from higher and higher. In the mountain, the train travels upwards in a spiral tunnel. Alighting in Preda, you walk back to Bergün on the beautiful railway adventure trail and learn a lot about the difficult construction of this section of the route.

Berguen/Bravuogn
In the 12th century, a small dominion arose around Greifenstein Castle in the municipality of Filisur, which came into the possession of the Bishop of Chur in 1394. Latsch was mentioned in documents in 1154, Bergün in 1209 and Stuls in 1270. In 1537 Bergün was able to replace the episcopal rights with a monetary payment and thus attained full sovereignty within the church association. In 1577/1590 it joined the Reformation. The Bergün court also included the neighborhoods of Filisur, Latsch and Stuls.
In addition to livestock farming, traffic over the Albula Pass and mining formed the basis of life for the town. A new road was built through the Bergünerstein in 1696 using explosives – a first in Graubünden road construction at the time. Mining and smelting of iron ore (hematite) from the rear Val Tisch and Val Plazbi experienced its last heyday around 1840.
When the Albula Railway opened in 1903, the people of Bergün expected a boom in tourism that would raise the village to the level of the Upper Engadin spa towns of St. Moritz and Pontresina. The Kurhaus Bergün, built in 1905/1906, bears witness to these hopes. The fact that the town had to say goodbye to these plans during the First World War is seen today as a happy coincidence, because the village was able to preserve its historic townscape in its entirety.
Latsch and Stuls, which were raised to independent political communities in 1851, merged again with Bergün in 1912 and 1921 respectively.
From 2014 negotiations were ongoing regarding a merger with the municipality of Filisur to form the municipality of Bergün Filisur.
Text/Source: Wikipedia
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Bergün is definitely worth a stay. A very beautiful, historically preserved town center. The prison tower in the center of the village is particularly worth mentioning. The Preda railway hiking trail ends in Bergün in summer and the natural toboggan run on the Albula Pass road in winter. The main attraction for railway enthusiasts is the winding lines of the Albula Railway with its viaducts and spiral tunnels.