Landquart GR

GR is the abbreviation for the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Landquart .

Landquart
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Graubünden (GR)
Region :	Landquart
BFS no. :	3955
Postal code :	7206 Igis 7302 Landquart 7303 Mastrils
UN / LOCODE :	CH LQU
Coordinates :	761 982  /  202076 coordinates: 46 ° 57 '0 "  N , 9 ° 34' 0"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred sixty-one thousand nine hundred eighty-two  /  202076
Height :	563  m above sea level M.
Height range :	509–1819 m above sea level M.
Area :	18.86  km²
Residents:	8889 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	471 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.landquart.ch
View of Landquart to the south and the Calanda
Location of the municipality

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1963

Landquart is a political municipality and capital of the Landquart region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden . The parish was formed on January 1, 2012 from the previous parishes Igis and Mastrils . The former district of Landquart-Fabriken has belonged to the district of Landquart since 2004.

Transport and economy

Landquart is an important traffic junction and industrial location on the southern bank of the river of the same name . The Landqart security paper mill is the manufacturer of the paper for the Swiss franc banknotes and supplier to numerous other national banks . The Plantahof agricultural training center is also important .

The Landquart train station is known far and wide, and is used by the standard-gauge Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) to switch to the meter-gauge Rhaetian Railway to get to Prättigau and Davos or the Lower Engadine . The Landquart – Davos line is the oldest, and the extension into the Lower Engadine is the newest of the Rhaetian Railway. The SBB (without stopping) and the RhB (regional trains) run side by side to Chur.

If you want to get to the Prättigau on foot, take the path from the train station to the Prättigauer Höhenweg , which runs along the entire Rätikon chain.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Landquart

• Reformed Church Igis
• Marschlins Castle
• Landquart train station
• Historical rolling stock of the Rhaetian Railway (15 vehicles)
• Locomotive shed
• Factory owner's villa
• ÖKK headquarters in Eastern Switzerland (2002), Architects: Valentin Bearth , Andrea Deplazes , Daniel Ladner

literature

• Adolf Collenberg: Landquart (settlement). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Adolf Collenberg: Igis. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Maria-Letizia Boscardin: Marschlins. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Adolf Collenberg: Mastrils. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Erwin Poeschel : The art monuments of the canton of Graubünden. Volume VII: The city of Chur and the district of five villages (= art monuments of Switzerland. Volume 20). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1948, DNB 760079668 .

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  Near Landquart on February 13, 1818, looking east, watercolor by Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth

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  Landquart Bahnhof on June 11, 2017, looking east

Web links

Commons : Landquart GR  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Swiss hike from Landquart-Klosters in Graubünden ( memento of the original from September 13, 2010 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. 
3. ↑ ÖKK headquarters in Eastern Switzerland