Orts-, Kirchen- und Museumsführung

Tour of Obermutten with essential information about the settlement by the Walser and the village history including the village fire of Obermutten. Visit to the church with explanation of the ecclesiastical contexts of Untermutten and Obermutten. Visit to the oldest Walser house, which has been set up for 15 years as a village museum with the largest collection of antique lamps far and wide.

The Walser settlement of Mutten Obermutten was settled by the Walser around 1300 and is one of the oldest Walser colonies in Graubünden. The settlement was carried out in the special interest of the Barons of Vaz for the purpose of guarding the pass between Schams / Rheinwald and the Albula Valley with the seat of the Barons of Vaz. The village stretches over three steps from the Albula to the Muttnerhorn. Untermutten has been the permanent residence at almost 1400 m above sea level for almost two hundred years. Then follows the Stafel and finally onto the saddle "Z ouberst uuf", as Obermutten is called in the local language.
The Muttners initially belonged to the Salux/Salouf church. In 1519 they helped build the church in the neighbouring village of Stürvis/Stierva and in 1582-1584 they built their own church in Untermutten and at the same time converted to the Reformation. The church building proves that the Muttners lived permanently in Untermutten at that time. Due to overpopulation, several families moved to Obermutten from the end of the 17th century, where they built the wooden church in 1718, which is now much visited. 17 buildings burned to the ground. The village still consists of nothing but wooden buildings and has been on the Federal Inventory of Swiss Sites of National Importance (ISOS) since 1973. Fortunately, four houses have survived from the transition from the 17th to the 18th century, a semi-detached house, an extended nave and two longhouses. The one Walser longhouse has served a double purpose for 15 years. It has been set up as a private museum with a large collection of antique lighting objects and can be inhabited (with restrictions) by the owner family when the guests have left. In 1991, the Walserverein Mutten was founded, which after 30 years has been transferred to the museum association. During this time, four major exhibitions on Mutten's history have been created and four books have been written. The book "Muttner BärgSunntig" deals, among other things, with the peculiarities of the Muttner Walser dialect and refers to the field names, which are placed on the field name map created in 1999, so to speak, with pinpoint accuracy. The book, published in 2011 under the title "Diis Gsetz isch nit inschas Gsetz", contains 17 biographies from a period of 200 years. The most comprehensive work "Paths and Deviations between Schyn and Viamala" tells of life on the two gorges. In the book "Muttner Küche gestern und heute" (Muttner Kitchen Yesterday and Today), cooks of the last 30 years appear with their recipes, with a focus on grandmother's cuisine. The book in A4 landscape format is characterized by the fact that the recipes are told in words and pictures on the left side with background stories on the right side.

Registration desired by 5:00 p.m. the day before.

Transport connections 
Arrival: By Postbus from Thusis: Thusis from 12.00 noon; Obermutten arrives at 12.33 p.m.
Return journey: Obermutten from 4.46 p.m.; Thusis at 5.23 p.m.