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- Earliest "Serena" marriages record in the Berg?n Evangelish-Reformierte Kirchenbuch:
February 1639: Confirmavi matrimoniu contracti inter Nuttin Sareina et Catharina Jecklin.
March 1677: (In Martio) Eodem Mense copulavi Petru Serena et Catharina Dschend.
According to the "Familiennamenbuch 1940" the only community in Graub?nden where people with the surname of Serena had been granted citizenship status pre-1800 was Berg?n. The only other communities, outside Graub?nden canton, pre-1800 where Serenas also held citizenship status were Arogno and Lugano in Ticino canton.
From "Berg?n-Bravuogn" by Gian Gianett Cloetta, 1964:
"Serena. Das Geschlecht kommt schon im 16 Jahrhundert, bald in Bravougn, bald in Latsch vor, doch nie zahlreich. Es hat auch einige Landamm?nner gehabt und lebt noch heute an beiden Orten." (Serena. The family arrived in the 16th century, sometimes in Berg?n/Bravougn, sometimes in Latsch, but never numerous. It has also had some chief magistrates and still survives in both places.)
The book "Die Pfarrer der Evang. Gemeinden in Graub?nden und seinen ehemaligen Untertanenlanden", by Jakob R. Truog, (Pub. 1934-1935), lists the following pastors with the surname Serena in the 1600 and 1700s.
1) Jakob Serena of Poschiavo, previously in ?sterreich (Austria), ordained in 1628, resident in Poschiavo from 1628 to 1630, died in a plague in 1630.
2) Blasius Sereina of Berg?n, born in 1678, ordained in 1701, resident in Ferrera from 1702 to 1704, in Pr?z from 1704 to 1710, and in Latsch from 1711 to 1716.
The following is a translation of information from the book: "Graub?nden Geschichte Seiner Kreise"
The district of Berg?n comprises the catchment area of the river Albula to the point where the mouth of the Landwasser coming from Davos joions it, the left slope of the lower valley of the Landwasser up to the gorge of Bromb?nz, and also the right slope between Tieftobel and Alteingrat. This region corresponds to the territory of the political communes of Berg?n/Bravuogn, Filisur and Wiesen.
According to Robert von Planta the name Berg?n (in Romansh: Bravuogn) goes back to the Roman "Barica" = hut.
Bronze Age settlement seem probable, as bronze castings were found at Filisur, and an arm-bracelet at Berg?n dating from the period of urn fields (13th century B.C.).
During the early Middle Ages the district of Berg?n was part of the Carolingian "Ministerium Impitinis". In the late Middle Ages it belonged to the sovereignty of Greifenstein, with the exception of Wiesen, which up to 1851 was joined to the High Court of Belfort (cf. District of Belfort). Greifenstein Castle at Filisur was the center from which the lords of the same name exercised their power. One of the last of the line is mentioned in a document as "nobilis vir Rudolfus de Grifenstein", because he took an active part in the murder of Bishop Berthold I of Helfenstein at Reams Castle on 25th August 1233. After the extinction of the line of Greifenstein, the castle and the sovereign rights passed to Heinrich of Wildenberg in the second part of the 13th century, and through his daughter to her husband Hugo III of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg. In 1360 the Dukes Albrecht the Elder and the Younger of Werdenberg ceded the sovereign rights to the Lords of Matsch, who were related to them. The latter sold them to the Bishop in 1394.
In 1333 there was a battle near Filisur which was important in the history of the Grisons, between Donat of Vaz with allied troops from the Waldst?tten and the Bishop Rudolf of Montfort, an ally of Austria.
In the 14th and 15th centuries Walsers from Davos settled at Wiesen and at the hamlet of Jenisberg on the opposite side of the valley. Both places were completely Germanised by the end of the 16th century.
Within the League of God's House, Berg?n, Filisur, Latsch, and Stuls formed one single jurisdiction, which, together with the jurisdiction of Obervaz, was joined in the High Court of Greifenstein. In 1537 the Court aucceeded in buying the rights from the Bishop for 2,300 guilders.
In 1577 Duri Chiampell preached the new belief at Berg?n, metting with violent opposition. It was only between 1581 and 1613 that the new faith spread throughout the whole territory of Greifenstein under the Reverend Zenthius.
In April 1618 the reformed preachers gathered at Berg?n under the leadership of Caspar Alexius, Georg Jenatsch, Blasius Alexander, and Bonaventura Toutsch, to hold an extraordinary synod; this became famous as the beginning of the uprising against the Spanish party, which later led to the trials at Thusis in the wars of the Grisons.
The economy of Berg?n and Filisur benefited from the trade that passed along the Albula to the Valtellina in which the import of salt from Hall was of some importance. Filisur was the unloading and storage place of the transport organisation. For some time the mines and the foundry at Bellaluna which they supplied were of considerable importance.
After the division into districts in 1851 Wiesen, the only Protestant village in the jurisdiction of Belfort, was joined to the communes of the jurisdiction of Berg?n, and they all formed the district of the same name. Thus all the Protestant communes of the Albula valley with the exception of Mutten were united in one district.
The language of the district of Berg?n is predominantly German. Wiesen and Jenisberg, where the Walsers settled, are completely German-speaking as well as Filisur, which was Germanised in the 19th century. Berg?n is half German-speaking. The Romansh people speak the dialect of Berg?n, which belongs to Surmiran.
District Coat of Arms: Silver, rampant, griffin sable with claws, gules. Blazonry: The district goes back to the old High Court of Greifenstein. The griffin is a symbol for the name Greifenstein. Greif means griffin. District colours: white-black.
This database researched and compiled by Norman Lee Madsen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21 July 2015.
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