Scheid

Scheid is a village in the municipality of Tomils in the district of Hinterrhein in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. In 2009 Scheid merged with Feldis/Veulden, Trans and Tumegl/Tomils to form the municipality of Tomils.

History

Scheid is first mentioned in the 12th Century as de Side.

Geography

Scheid has an area, as of 2006, of 12.3 km² (4.7 sq mi). Of this area, 43.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 42% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (12.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The village is located in the Domleschg sub-district, of the Hinterrhein district. It consisted of two settlements, Unterscheid and Oberscheid, on the right bank of the Hinterrhein. In 2009 Scheid merged with Feldis/Veulden, Trans and Tumegl/Tomils to form Tomils.

In Romansh the two sections are known as Sched (Unterscheid) and Purz (Oberscheid).

Demographics

Scheid has a population (as of 2007) of 148, of which 2.7% are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 8.8%.

Scheid, Rhineland-Palatinate

Scheid is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Obere Kyll, whose seat is in the municipality of Jünkerath.

Geography

Location

The municipality lies in the Vulkaneifel, a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth.

Scheid is the northwesternmost place in the Vulkaneifel district. It lies roughly 1 km northwest of Hallschlag on a mountain ridge. Its elevation is 593 m above sea level.

Name

The name Scheid might best be explained as coming from the German word Wasserscheide, cognate with, and meaning the same as (at least in some varieties of English) the word “watershed”, for south from Scheid flows the Hallschlager Bach and north from the village flows the Scheider or Gonsbach. Still others derive the name from the road junction here in Roman times, when the road from Trier to Cologne and Aachen branched at what is now Scheid (scheiden means “divide” or “split” in German; this is cognate with the English word “shed” [v]). On the other hand, placename researchers hold that the name is not German at all. They derive it from the old Celtic word keito-n, meaning “wood” or “forest” (cf. Welsh coedwig and Breton koadeg).

Scheid (surname)

Scheid is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: