District five villages

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Five villages
Five villages
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
map
Map of Five Villages
Igis Landquart

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
Haldenstein Haldenstein 1033 18.56 3941
Landquart Landquart 8889 18.86 3955
Trimmis Trimmis 3304 42.87 3945
Untervaz Untervaz 2521 27.72 3946
Zizers Zizers 3434 11.01 3947

Changes in the community since 2000

Mergers

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

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