Laax

Laax
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Graubünden (GR)
Region :	Surselva
BFS no. :	3575
Postal code :	7031
Coordinates :	739005  /  185929 coordinates: 46 ° 48 '36 "  N , 9 ° 15' 36"  O ; CH1903:  739005  /  185929
Height :	1016  m above sea level M.
Height range :	805–3025 m above sea level M.
Area :	31.71  km²
Residents:	1858 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.laax-gr.ch
View of Laax to the southeast
Location of the municipality

Laax (German, Romansh Lags [laːks] ^{? / I} ) is a municipality in the Surselva in the Surselva region of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland .

The official language is Sursilvan . The place name (originally Lags ) means "lakes". The field names Lavanuz and Nagiens are considered pre-Roman.

geography

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1949

The municipality extends from the Laaxer Tobel up to the watershed of the Bündner and Glarus mountains and to the Vorab glacier . The lakes Lag digl Oberst and the Laaxersee are located in the municipality . Uaul Taviarna, known for its capercaillie population, is located above Laax . To the east of the village lies a deep ravine through which the Ual da Mulin brook dug its way through the rubble of the Flims landslide .

history

Laax is indirectly mentioned in a document in 765, when Bishop Tello von Chur bequeathed numerous areas of the lower Surselva, including his inheritance from the village of Flemme (Flims), to the Disentis monastery . Field names on Laax soil are mentioned in his will.

The village of Laax is mentioned for the first time in 1290 in a directory in Chur Cathedral . In the Habsburg land register of 1309, the market and court of the Free of Laax are mentioned. In 1428 the Free of Laax bought themselves free from the rule of Count Rudolf VII von Werdenberg-Sargans for 300 gold ducats . In 1677 Udalrich de Mont, Bishop of Chur, consecrated the new Laax church to the patron saints Gallus and Otmar .

In the Middle Ages, Laax formed a market cooperative with Sagens . It was not until the 19th century that the municipal areas were finally separated from each other. In terms of church, Laax also belonged to Sagens at first, but in 1525 it became independent with the establishment of its own parish church (St. Othmar and Gallus). After the Laax-Seewis court was dissolved in 1851, the community was assigned to the Ilanz district.

In 1880 the first hotel was built in Laax, the Seehof .

Population development

Population development
year	1850	1900	1950	1970	2000	2010	2016	2018
Residents	277	280	328	480	1150	1551	1725	1858

Ski Area

→ Main article : Flims-Laax-Falera mountain railways

Above Laax is the LAAX ski area with 224 kilometers of slopes and 28 lifts. It extends over the municipal areas of Flims , Laax and Falera and is also accessible from these municipalities. The ski area is operated and marketed by the Weisse Arena Gruppe. The Weisse Arena Gruppe began in 1996 with the merger of the Crap Sogn Gion mountain railways and the Flims mountain railways . The Crap Sogn Gion was opened up for tourism in 1962.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Laax

• Catholic parish church of St. Otmar and Gallus
• The large boulder Crap Fraissen above the Laaxersee

• photos
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  Main street in Laax in December

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  Laaxersee

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  Lag digl Oberst nature reserve
  

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  Laax in winter

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  Schoolhouse and indoor swimming pool

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  Rock resort

Trivia

• The chapters No Rainbow and The Legend of The Fall in the English-language novel Angel by Sebastian Michael are mostly set in Laax. (Optimist Books, 2009) ISBN 978-1-4092-2896-7 (Hardback) ISBN 978-1-4092-2900-1 (Paperback)

literature

• Alfons Maissen (editor): Laax - A Bündner community . Ed .: Foundation “Pro Laax”. Laax 1978, p. 360 .
• Weisse Arena AG (Ed.): The mountain calls. We also. Echoes from the peripheral area . Edition Hochparterre , 2012
• Martin Bundi: Laax (municipality). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2007 .

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Flims Laax Falera  - travel guide

• Laax on the ETHorama platform
• Official website of the municipality of Laax

Individual evidence

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 . 
2. ^ Rätisches Namenbuch II, pp. 727, 765
3. ↑ Ski area test January 4, 2012 ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Catholic parish church of St. Otmar and Gallus
5. ↑ Hochparterre ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.