| Subject Name: | Mulegns |
| Municipality Type: | former |
| Canton: | Graubünden |
| Iso-Code-Region: | CH-GR |
| Coordinates: | 46.5167°N 46°W |
| Postal Code: | 7455 |
| Municipality Code: | 3534 |
| Area: | 33.80 |
| Elevation: | 1481 |
| Population: | 25 |
| Populationof: | Dec 2014 |
| Popofyear: | 2014 |
| Website: | https://surses.ch/RM/surses/vischnancas/mulegns.html |
Mulegns is a village and a former municipality in the Sursés in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Bivio, Cunter, Marmorera, Mulegns, Riom-Parsonz, Salouf, Savognin, Sur and Tinizong-Rona merged to form the new municipality of Surses.[1]
Around 600-500 BC, a copper mine and smelter were built in the Val Faller (Faller valley) near modern Mulegns. The village was founded by a Walser group during the 15th Century. It was first mentioned in 1521.
Mulegns had an area,, of 33.8km2. Of this area, 30.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 9.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (59.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).
The former municipality is located in the Surses sub-district of the Albula district. It is along the road to the Julier Pass (the Julienstrasse) at the entrance to a side valley of the Val Faller. Until 1943 Mulegns was known as Mühlen.[2]
Mulegns had a population (as of 2014) of 25. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -23.5%.
, the gender distribution of the population was 50.0% male and 50.0% female.[3] The age distribution,, in Mulegns is; 3 people or 9.1% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old. 1 person or 3.0% is 10 to 14, and 2 people or 6.1% are 15 to 19. Of the adult population, no one is between 20 and 29 years old. 6 people or 18.2% are 30 to 39, 1 person or 3.0% is 40 to 49, and 5 people or 15.2% are 50 to 59. The senior population distribution is 8 people or 24.2% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 6 people or 18.2% are 70 to 79, there is 1 person or 3.0% who is 80 to 89.[4]
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 63.3% of the vote. The next two most popular parties were the SVP (20%) and the FDP (8.3%).
In Mulegns about 62.5% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).
Mulegns has an unemployment rate of 1.56%., there were 12 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 5 businesses involved in this sector. people are employed in the secondary sector and there are businesses in this sector. 1 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 1 businesses in this sector.
The historical population is given in the following table:[3]
| year | population |
|---|---|
| 1850 | 120 |
| 1900 | 146 |
| 1950 | 109 |
| 1960 | 57 |
| 1970 | 66 |
| 1980 | 50 |
| 1990 | 37 |
| 2000 | 33 |
Most of the population speaks Rhaeto-Romance (57.6%), with the rest speaking German(42.4%).[5]
| Languages | Census 1980 | Census 1990 | Census 2000 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | ||||||||
| align=right | 4 | align=right | 8.00% | align=right | 10 | align=right | 27.03% | align=right | 14 | align=right | 42.42% | ||
| Romanish | align=right | 46 | align=right | 92.00% | align=right | 27 | align=right | 72.97% | align=right | 19 | align=right | 57.58% | |
| align=right | 0 | align=right | 0.00% | align=right | 0 | align=right | 0.00% | align=right | 0 | align=right | 0.00% | ||
| Population | align=right | 50 | align=right | 100% | align=right | 37 | align=right | 100% | align=right | 33 | align=right | 100% | |