Salaplauna monastery farm

The name Salaplauna is a combination of the Latin silva ‘forest’ and plauna, Latin plana ‘flat’. The name of this flat area comes from the time before urbanisation and means ‘flat forest’. The Salaplauna monastery farm is owned by the Benedictine monastery of Disentis. Until 1995, the farm was run by the monastery itself.

At Easter 2006, the large stables of the Disentis monastery on the Salaplauna plain in front of the village burned down. There were three reasons in favour of rebuilding it: Firstly, agriculture has always played an important role in the history of the 1300-year-old monastery; what the monastery does is seen as a role model ‘ and it wants to continue to be seen as such. Secondly, this gave rise to the idea of building a meeting and educational centre in addition to the farm, where farmers and lay people could learn about livestock farming and agriculture. And thirdly, the loss would have threatened the existence of the farmers in the region. The planned regional cheese dairy could not have been realised. Between the Lukmanierstrasse and the steeply sloping edge of the terrain, the newly built monastery courtyard now stands slightly set back from the road and overlooks the monastery from afar.