District five villages
Five villages | |
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Basic data | |
Canton : | Graubünden (GR) |
District : | Landquart |
Main town : | Landquart |
Surface: | 119.02 km² |
Residents: | 17,553 December 31, 2009 |
Population density : | 149 inhabitants per km² |
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The district, five villages was until 31 December 2015 an independent political entity and historically developed region in the District Landquart the canton of Grisons in Switzerland . The districts were abolished by the Graubünden regional reform.
The former district is located in the Graubünden Rhine Valley . Left of Rhine were the communities Haldenstein and Untervaz , rechtsrheinisch the communities Trimmis and Zizers and flow across the community Landquart .
Municipalities of the district of five villages
The following communities belonged to the Kreis Fünf Dörfer:
coat of arms | Name of the parish | Population (December 31, 2015) |
Area in km² |
BFS no |
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Haldenstein | 1033 | 18.56 | 3941 | |
Landquart | 8889 | 18.86 | 3955 | |
Trimmis | 3304 | 42.87 | 3945 | |
Untervaz | 2521 | 27.72 | 3946 | |
Zizers | 3434 | 11.01 | 3947 |
Changes in the community since 2000
Mergers
- 2008: Says and Trimmis → Trimmis
- 2012: Igis and Mastrils → Landquart
- 2016: Haldenstein changes from District Landquart → Region Plessur
history
The villages of Zizers, Igis, Trimmis and Untervaz originally formed the high court of four villages. In 1803, with the inclusion of Haldenstein, it became the High Court of Five Villages. When in 1854 Mastrils and 1880 Says separated from their mother communities Zizers and Trimmis respectively and were included in the Kreis Fünf Dörfer, the name was no longer changed.
economy
The district includes the smallest wine-growing region in Switzerland with approx. 375 hectares , which, however, benefits from the sunshine on south-facing slopes on the right side of the Rhine and also from warm foehn winds .
literature
- Richard Kirchgraber: The area of the former High Court Four Villages. (An attempt on the cultural geography of the landscapes of the Canton of Graubünden) , in: Mitteilungen der Geographisch-Ethnographische Gesellschaft Zürich, Volume 22 (1921–1922), pp. 17–212 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Five Villages District Administration website
- Adolf Collenberg: Five villages. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .