Maladers

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Maladers
Maladers coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region : Plessure
Political community : Churi2 w1
Postal code : 7026
former BFS no. : 3926
Coordinates : 761 796  /  189405 coordinates: 46 ° 50 '10 "  N , 9 ° 33' 35"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred sixty-one thousand seven hundred ninety-six  /  189405
Height : 1013  m above sea level M.
Area : 7.59  km²
Population density : 68 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.maladers.ch
Maladers

Maladers

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2020

Maladers ( [mɐˈladərs] ? / I ) was a municipality in the Plessur region of the Swiss canton of Graubünden until December 31, 2019 . On January 1, 2020, it merged with Chur . Audio file / audio sample

coat of arms

Blazon : Blue M in gold, topped with a blue arrow on stake.

The initial of the community is covered by the arrow as a symbol of the valley. Colors of the Ten Court League .

geography

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1947

Maladers is 3 km (as the crow flies) south-east of Chur on the cantonal road to Arosa . The former municipal area extends on the right, northern side of the Schanfigg from the deeply cut Plessur (lowest point in the Sassal , 620  m ), which forms the southern border in the valley to the Calfreiser Tobel, up to the western foothills of the Hochwang chain . There is on the Montalin , just below the summit, the highest point of the territory with 2220 m. Next to the clustered village of Maladers, located on a terrace above the wooded, steep lower slope zone, the hamlets of Brandacker and Sax belong to the community .

Of the entire former municipal area of ​​761 hectares, 497 hectares are covered by forest and wood. At least 208 hectares can be used for agriculture, of which 145 hectares are alpine pastures. 28 hectares each are settlement areas or unproductive areas (mostly mountains). Neighboring communities were Arosa , the city of Chur , Churwalden , Trimmis and Tschiertschen-Praden .

history

Antiquity to the present

Finds from the Bronze Age as well as a Roman Mercurius statuette discovered in 1977 prove the early settlement of the place, which is mentioned as Maladru in 1156. Originally at the Chur court, the village came to the Ausserschanfigg court of the Ten Courts Association in the late Middle Ages. At the end of the 16th century, Maladers switched from Rhaeto-Romanic to German and joined the Reformation in 1635 - as the last village in the valley . In 1939 Sassal was converted to the city of Chur. The covered Plessur Bridge, built in Sassal in 1881, was demolished in 1966.

Merger with the city of Chur

On January 1, 2020, the municipality of Maladers merged with the city of Chur after the voters approved this project by a large majority in two separate votes (municipality meeting in Maladers on August 30, 2018: 186 to 20 votes; referendum of November 25, 2018 in Chur: 9686 to 1761 votes).

On January 1, 2013, the other communities on the right side of the Schanfigg valley merged to form the large community of Arosa . The impetus for these municipal mergers came from the canton of Graubünden, which gave these projects considerable financial support.

population

Population development
year 1850 1900 1950 2005 2015
population 253 341 448 493 506

Of the 506 residents at the end of 2004, 491 were Swiss nationals.

Economy and Transport

Maladers, according to self-promotion the sunniest village in Graubünden , has continuously developed into a popular residential community on the edge of the canton's capital. On site, 37 people were employed in agriculture and forestry, 32 in the commercial sector and 23 in the service sector (as of 2000–01).

The former municipality is connected to the public transport network by several stops on the Chur – Peist post bus line . The first post bus connection to Chur was put into operation on May 15, 1935. The Untersax service station of the Arosabahn is located in the municipality of Maladers, but has no connection to this line.

If the project is implemented, the area below Malader's destination will be the St. Luzibrücke .

Attractions

Reformed Church in Maladers

The reformed village church is located in the upper village, surrounded by old houses. The nave with two ribless, round-arched cross vaults and the bell tower date from the Romanesque period. The choir with net vault and sacrament niche with iron doors and the sacristy annex are Gothic. In 1938, during renovation work, traces of frescoes were discovered on the south and choir walls. Figures of apostles and a kneeling donor figure came to light. Although the well-known Graubünden art historian Erwin Poeschel rated the paintings as well preserved and of remarkable quality, the Protestant parish decided to whitewash the frescoes again. In 1922 the Catholic community built its own chapel (St. Antoniuskapelle) on Talstrasse below the village.

literature

  • Jürg Simonett: Maladers. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Hans Danuser / Walser Association Graubünden (ed.): Old ways in Schanfigg. Publishing house Walser Association Graubünden, Splügen 1997.
  • C. Fischer: Land and people in the Schanfigg valley. Manatschal Ebner & Cie., Chur 1905.
  • The municipalities of the canton of Graubünden. Chur / Zurich, 2003. ISBN 3-7253-0741-5 .
  • Peter Masüger: From Old Rhaeto-Romanic to “Tschalfiggerisch” In: Terra Grischuna 48/1 (1990) ISSN  1011-5196 .
  • Christian Patt: Schanfigger words. A supplement to the Davos dictionary. Walservereinigung Graubünden publisher, Chur 1986.
  • Erwin Poeschel : The art monuments of the canton of Graubünden. Volume II: The valleys of Herrschaft, Prättigau, Davos, Schanfigg, Churwalden, Albula Valley (= Swiss art monuments. Volume 9). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1937. DNB 811066703 .
  • E. Rud: Das Schanfigg , Buchdruckerei AG Arosa, Arosa undated (around 1920).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aroser Zeitung of June 24, 2016, p. 23.
  2. ↑ SRF regional journal Graubünden from November 25, 2018: Maladers becomes a district of Chur
  3. ↑ Community mergers in Switzerland: Graubünden
  4. ↑ Bündner Woche, May 22, 2013, p. 35.