Jenaz
Jenaz | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Graubünden (GR) |
Region : | Prättigau / Davos |
BFS no. : | 3863 |
Postal code : | 7233 |
Coordinates : | 772 596 / 199370 |
Height : | 755 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 681–2395 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 25.91 km² |
Residents: | 1146 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 44 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | www.jenaz.ch |
Jenaz, view from the south |
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Location of the municipality | |
Jenaz ( Romansh ) is a municipality in the Prättigau / Davos region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland .
coat of arms
Blazon : Divided by blue and gold; in blue six-pointed gold star, in gold two blue posts .
Traditional coat of arms of the community.
geography
Today's Jenaz lies in the valley floor on the Landquart – Davos railway line . Alt-Jenaz , the former center, is 30 meters above sea level on a glacial alluvial terrace and has a village image of national importance. In addition, the hamlet of Rüti to the right of the Landquart and the district of Pragg-Jenaz (formerly called Furna Station ) on the Furnerbach also belong to the municipality. About half of the entire municipal area of almost 26 km² is agriculturally usable (1247 ha; mostly alpine farms). A little over 10 km² (exactly 1008 ha) are covered by forest and wood. In addition, the municipal area comprises 263 ha of unproductive area (mostly mountains) and 77 ha of settlement area.
Jenaz borders on Arosa , Fideris , Furna , Luzein and Schiers .
history
Jenaz was mentioned as Junazis in the second half of the 12th century . At that time Jenazer goods were owned by the Chur cathedral chapter and the Dominican monastery of St. Nicolai while the sovereign rights lay with the rule of Castels . In the 14th century, Walser speaking Walser German migrated to the Rhaeto-Romanic Mittelprättigau.
Jenaz joined the Ten Courts League in 1436 as part of the Castels court . The Court of Castels was divided into Castels-Jenaz and Castels-Luzein in 1662. The St. Peterskirche (from 1511 St. Peter and Paul), mentioned in the second half of the 12th century, was the mother church of St. Antönien and Furna and was reformed in 1526.
In 1733 the community took a spring discovered in Valdavos and had a guest house and bath house built. The Jenaz spa was enlarged in 1766 to accommodate 130 guests, was in operation until the fire of 1834 and was then demolished. The mineral spring there, revised in 1941, is open to the public.
The farming village of Jenaz lived for centuries from cattle breeding in the numerous Alps as well as from growing grain and fruit. The Talstrasse (1843–1863) and the railway connection from 1889 favored the development of the trade (construction, wood processing). In 2000 half of the workforce worked in the industrial sector.
population
In 1850 Jenaz had 806 inhabitants, 1888 997 (railway construction), 1900 820, 1950 1053, 2000 1130. Of the 1158 inhabitants at the end of 2004, 1076 (= 93%) were Swiss citizens.
Personalities
- Jakob Rudolf Truog (1865–1953), pastor in Jenaz, church historian
politics
The mayor is Werner Bär-Bühler (as of 2014).
Attractions
- The reformed village church is a listed building.
- Jenaz retirement home, 2009
- Platzhus
- Luzi House, 2002, architect: Peter Zumthor
traffic
Jenaz is on the Landquart – Davos Platz railway line .
literature
- Jakob Rudolf Truog: Jenazer Heimatbuch . Self-published by the author in 1945, Prättigauer und Herrschäftler, 3rd edition
- Jakob Rudolf Truog: The Jenaz Bad . Bündnerisches monthly newspaper: magazine for Graubünden history, regional and folklore. Volume 1941, Issue 3
- Bruno Weber: Old spa houses in Graubünden: Jenaz, Fideris, St. Moritz, Le Prese . Our art monuments, newsletter for the members of the Society for Swiss Art History, Volume 29, Issue 4 1978 Issue 4
- 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 .
- Ariane Kühne: Three episodes from the more recent Jenazer story . In: Annual report of the Walservereinigung Graubünden, Splügen 2003, pages 72–79.
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Jenaz
- Otto Clavuot: Jenaz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Southeastern Switzerland on February 6, 2015: When Prättigau healing springs gave hope to the sick
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 .
- ↑ Jakob Rudolf Truog: The Bad Jenaz . Bündnerisches monthly newspaper, magazine for the history of the Grisons, regional and folklore. Volume 1941, Issue 3
- ↑ retirement home Jenaz on www.graubuendenkultur.ch .
- ↑ Platzhus
- ↑ Luzi House
- ↑ Prättigauer und Herrschäftler: Jenazer Heimatbuch
- ↑ The Jenaz bath
- ^ Old spa houses in Graubünden: Jenaz, Fideris, St. Moritz, Le Prese