Book launch in the city archive

On the occasion of the reopening, the city archive is organizing a book launch in the new city archive on Hofgraben.

A special book now makes a unique source on the history of Graubünden accessible to all interested parties. In Chur, a father and two sons of the Terz family wrote a chronicle from 1727 to 1811. Reading her entries leads us into the world of the 18th and early 19th centuries, which is foreign to us today, with its very own values, ideals and ideas. The Terz Chronicle offers an insight into the mentality of the guild bourgeoisie, on whose history today's urbanity in Switzerland is based.

The important family book has an eventful past. After the authors died without descendants, excerpts from the manuscript appeared in public in 1880. Just twenty years later, the chronicle was considered lost and remained so for more than a century. In 2017, the city archive was able to acquire this cultural treasure and secure it for the public.

The historian and former city archivist Ulf Wendler and the genealogist Markus Köhl have edited the manuscript and provided it with explanations. They present the Terz Chronicle and provide insights into life in Chur 200 to 300 years ago.

The event will take place on May 15 from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in the Chur City Archives, Hofgraben 3. Admission is free, but due to the limited number of seats, registration is mandatory (stadtarchiv@chur.ch or 081 254 41 32). The publication is available in bookstores for 85 francs and can also be purchased on site on the day of the opening.