Schiers

Schiers

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	canton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region :	Prättigau / Davos
BFS no. :	3962i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	7220
Coordinates :	770 807 / 204175 coordinates: 46 ° 58 '0 " N , 9 ° 41' 0" O ; CH1903: 770 807 / 20417546.96666 9.683334 660
Height :	660 m above sea level M.
Height range :	612–2826 m above sea level M.
Area :	61.66 km²
Residents:	2679 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	43 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.schiers.ch
Schiers
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Schiers ( Walser German Schiersch [ʃiərʃ] , Romansh Ashera ^?^/^I ) is a municipality in the region Prättigau / Davos , in the Swiss canton of Grisons .

coat of arms

Blazon : A continuous golden (yellow) cross in blue The community took over the original coat of arms of the Ten Court Association, derived from the coat of arms of the Schiers court master Jann Grest von Seewis from the years 1516, 1517 and 1540.

geography

Historical aerial photo from 300 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1923

Schiers is located in the front Prättigau at the confluence of the screw axis in the Landquart , which flows through the municipality for about 5 km from southeast to northwest. The almost continuously wooded slope south of the river, the Landquartberg, reaches around 1,600 m above sea level. M. Much larger and more diverse presents itself, the northern part of the territory. It extends from the Landquart to the peaks of the Rätikon , so far as the watershed against the Montafon , the same state border with Austria . The the Kalkstöcken the Drusenfluh (main peak 2,827 m, the highest point of the municipality) upstream hilly landscape consists of soft Bündnerschiefer so that the Schraubach and its numerous source and tributaries deep ravine dug, which the scattered on the hills Maiensässe and Alps separate and make the construction and maintenance of roads very expensive.

In addition to the street village of Schiers, the districts Lunden, Fajauna, Stels, Maria-Montagna, Pusserein and Schuders , which formed an independent community from 1851 to 1878, belong to the community .

Neighboring communities are Grüsch , Seewis im Prättigau , Luzein , Jenaz , Furna as well as Vandans and Tschagguns (both belonging to the Austrian state of Vorarlberg ).

Grüsch	Seewis in the Prättigau	Brand ( District Bludenz , Vorarlbg. AT )
Grüsch		Luzein
Furna	Jenaz	Luzein

history

Various finds prove the settlement of the area in the Bronze and Iron Ages . The place Scieres and the church of St. Johann, the early church of the Prättigau founded in the 5th century, are first mentioned in a document in 1101. The place name goes back to the vulgar Latin adjective ăcĕrĕu, ăcĕrĕa, a derivation of the Latin acer "maple", as with the nearby hamlet of Ascharina (municipality of Luzein) .

The sovereign rights came through inheritance from the Vazern to the Toggenburgers in 1335 , after which - which gave rise to the establishment of the Ten Courts League in 1436 - finally to the House of Habsburg , from whose rule the Prättigauers were able to buy themselves out in 1649. Within the ten- court federation, Schiers, Grüsch and Seewis formed the Schiers court, which was divided into two half- courts in 1679. From the rights of the Chur Cathedral Chapter , which had been wealthy in Schiers since the 12th century , a separate jurisdiction had developed, the Schiers Chapter Court, which was merged with the Schiers Court in 1506. Up to that point in time one spoke of the union of the eleven courts .

In 1563 the community joined the Reformation . In the same century there was a transition from Romance to German.

education

Schiers is known for its Evangelical Middle School Schiers , a Christian grammar school with boarding school founded in 1837 as a teacher training college . From 1894 to 1900 Gottfried Fankhauser worked here as a lecturer. One of the most famous students was Alberto Giacometti .

Regional Hospital Prättigau

economy

As the location of the regional hospital operated by the Flury Foundation and several educational institutions, the community fulfills a central function in the valley. In addition to a number of companies in the construction industry and related branches of the economy (wood processing, gravel works) and numerous farms, there is a large butcher's shop and meat drying shop. The printing works and the editorial office of the regional newspaper Prättigauer und Herrschäftler are also located in Schiers .

Schiers station (1961)

traffic

Schiers is on the Landquart - Klosters line of the Rhaetian Railway, which was opened in 1889 . There are hourly direct connections with RegioExpress trains to Davos and the Lower Engadine . The station was completely rebuilt in 2004. Four post bus lines open up the smaller fractions and also connect the place with the neighboring communities Fanas, Luzein, Furna and Jenaz.

Attractions

Salginatobel Bridge

The Salginatobel Bridge , completed in 1930 and named a World Monument by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1991, is located in the area of the municipality of Schiers .

The Reformed Church of St. Johann is also worth seeing . It is a late Gothic hall building, built between 1519 and 1522. The ceiling of the nave and the gallery are from 1926. In the parish garden, two previous buildings from the 5th and 6th centuries were marked with stone slabs.

Residential development field, architect: Martin Spühler

Single-family house Tettamanti, 2004, architect: Riccardo Tettamanti

photos

church
Evangelical middle school
hospital
Schoolhouse field
Schoolhouse color
Bahnhofplatz
Chreaweg
Catholic Church

Personalities

Theophil Forchhammer (1847–1923), composer, organist and church musician
Eduard Imhof (1895–1986), cartographer
Manuel Pleisch (* 1990), ski racer
Andreas Victor Walser (* 1976), ancient historian
Mathias Rüegg (* 1952), pianist, composer, arranger and band leader

literature

Otto Clavuot: Schiers. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Otto Clavuot: Schuders. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Erwin Poeschel : The art monuments of the canton of Graubünden II. The valley communities Herrschaft, Prättigau, Davos, Schanfigg, Churwalden, Albula valley. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 9). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1937. DNB 811066703 .

Web links

Commons : Schiers - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the municipality of Schiers

Individual evidence

↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .

↑ ^a ^b Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 807.

↑ A. B .: The pleasant renewal of the church in Schiers. In: Heimatschutz = Patrimoine, Vol. 30, 1935, pp. 69–72.

↑ Feld housing development at www.graubuendenkultur.ch .

↑ Tettamanti single-family home at www.graubuendenkultur.ch .

[1] Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .

[lsg-2] Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 807.

[3] A. B .: The pleasant renewal of the church in Schiers. In: Heimatschutz = Patrimoine, Vol. 30, 1935, pp. 69–72.