Maran GR
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Maran is a district of the Graubünden municipality of Arosa , which until 1911 was politically part of the former neighboring municipality of Peist .
Location and description
Maran is 1862 m above sea level. M. north above the Obersee on a panoramic high plateau between Weisshorn , Prätsch and Litzirüti . Maran originally consisted of a few individual farms. Today the Golf- und Sporthotel Hof Maran forms the center of the settlement, surrounded by one of the highest 18-hole golf courses in Europe, the Alpine Garden of the ETH Zurich , a show garden with over 100 rare potato varieties from the fund of the Pro Specie Rara Foundation, the Milchzentrale the Chur Alp Maran, as well as a restaurant with tennis courts and an ice rink. There are various residential and holiday homes on the nearby Ringstrasse. The area around the golf course is also used as alpine pasture.
History
Maran was first mentioned in 1222 as "Merans". The name is derived from the late Latin "majoria" (Meierhof). At that time, Rhaeto-Romanic farmers from Peist were cultivating soil on Maran , which was owned by the monasteries of Churwalden and St. Luzi .
With the immigration of the Walsers to Arosa and Langwies in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Marans, who lived in isolation from Peist, quickly adopted the German language. With the construction of the Arosa Bergkirchli in 1493, the Maraner also used it as a place of worship and since the opening of the first public school in Arosa, the Maran children also went to school there. At that time the Maraner Alp area extended over the Seehalde to the north bank of the Obersee.
After the Maraner farmers had become owners of their farms themselves, they sold some of the shares to the municipality of Fläsch , which in turn sold them to Chur representatives. The city of Chur was able to gradually acquire an ever larger share of the Maraner land, which repeatedly led to differences - especially with regard to forest and water usage rights - with the locals.
When the sale of the Maran Forest to the city of Chur was under discussion around 1900, the Peister representative Hans Hold advised his client to only agree to this sale if the territorial affiliation of Maran was also regulated anew. Hold feared that the upcoming expansion of the health resort Arosa in the direction of Maran / Prätschli would leave the municipality of Peist with a variety of new obligations and needs, which would overwhelm the Peister's financial resources. After long negotiations, the municipality sold the Peist Maraner forest for 215,000 Swiss francs to Chur. At the same time, Arosa, Chur and Peist agreed to relocate the Marans area including Prätschli into the Arosa territory. The Grand Council of Graubünden finally formally approved the deal on May 26, 1911.
Around 1860, the widowed Maran farmer Eva Ardüser-Läry was one of the first in Arosa to provide guests with board and lodging for a fee. Over the years, today's Golf and Sporthotel Maran developed from their property.
traffic
Before the construction of the Schanfiggerstrasse and the Maranerstrasse, the main entrances to Maran ran from Rütland and Schwarzsee respectively . The church path to Innerarosa led over the Sattelalp near Tschuggen . Maran is not served by the Arosabahn and has no cable car feeder. The Arosa bus connects Maran with the rest of the village and Prätschli, which is further up . Various hiking trails lead in different directions.
sport and freetime
The Berghotel Prätschli was built in 1914 and subsequently expanded several times. In 1929 the hotel Hof Maran was significantly expanded. In 1930 the ice rink, tennis courts and a bocce court were set up there. A bathing establishment with a slide was built on the Lower Prätschsee . The golf course on the Büel, opened in 1947, is used as a cross-country ski run in winter. Around 1900 a specially prepared Eisrun led from Maran to Obersee. In the Gadenstatt area there was a ski practice area with its own 300 m long Maran ski lift from the mid-1960s . This was initially privately owned, but was taken over in 1978 by the Arosa Bergbahnen , which put it out of service around 1990. The former valley station remained until 2014. In 1973 Werner Geeser opened a cross-country school in Maran. Since 1998, the Maraner Alp area has been directly connected to the Arosa ski area by the Prätschli ski lift . In 2001, the golf course was expanded to an 18-hole course, including the Gadenstatt area. On October 3rd, 2015, the Maran area hosted the 2015 Middle Distance Orienteering World Cup .
literature
- Marcel Just, Christof Kübler, Matthias Noell (eds.): Arosa - Modernism in the mountains . gta, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-85676-214-8 , pp. 112–117, 122–125.
- Ueli Haldimann (ed.): Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann and others in Arosa - texts and images from two centuries , AS Verlag und Buchkonzept AG, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-905111-67-5 , p. 30 f.
- Hans Danuser : Arosa - as it was then (1996-2003) , Vol. 7, self-published by Danuser, Arosa 2004, p. 74.
- Hans Danuser: Arosa - as it was then (1962–1978) , vol. 5, self-published by Danuser, Arosa 2001, p. 171.
- Hans Danuser: Arosa - as it was then (1928–1946) , Vol. 3, self-published by Danuser, Arosa 1999, pp. 25, 26, 50, 51, 249.
- Hans Danuser: Arosa - as it was then (1907–1928) , vol. 2, self-published by Danuser, Arosa 1998, p. 42 ff.
- Hans Danuser: Arosa - as it was then (1850–1907) , vol. 1, self-published by Danuser, Arosa 1997, p. 35 ff.
- Hans Danuser / Walser Association Graubünden (ed.): Altewege im Schanfigg , Verlag Walser Association Graubünden, Splügen 1997, pp. 77 f., 133 ff
- Hans Danuser, Ruedi Homberger: Arosa und das Schanfigg , self-published by Danuser / Homberger, Arosa 1988, pp. 77 f., 178 f.
- JB Casty: Arosa - From the local history of the world-famous health resort , Verlag Kur- und Verkehrsverein Arosa, Arosa 1959, p. 104 f.
- Christian Jenny: “The right of the strongest”: Maran von Peist came to Arosa in 1911 , in: Aroser Zeitung of December 30, 2011, p. 7
- Fritz Maron: From mountain farming village to world health resort Arosa , Verlag F. Schuler, Chur 1934, p. 18.
- Anna Hold, Robert Just: Vom alten Arosa , Verlag Buchdruckerei Arosa, Arosa 1917, p. 33 f.
Web links
- Website Hof Maran
- Website Golf Club Arosa
- Geeser cross-country skiing and snowshoeing center
- Website Hotel Prätschli
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aroser Zeitung of September 25, 2015, p. 21.
Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ' N , 9 ° 41' E ; CH1903: 771 207 / 184874