Tschiertschen-Praden

Tschiertschen-Praden

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	canton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region :	Plessure
BFS no. :	3932i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	7063 Praden 7064 Tschiertschen
Coordinates :	765 419 / 187501 coordinates: 46 ° 49 '5 " N , 9 ° 36' 23" O ; CH1903: seven hundred sixty-five thousand four hundred nineteen / 18750146.8181 9.60651 1350
Height :	1350 m above sea level M.
Height range :	663–2822 m above sea level M.
Area :	27.74 km²
Residents:	305 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	11 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.tschiertschen-praden.ch
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Location of the municipality
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Praden

Church in Praden

Tschiertschen-Praden is a municipality in the Plessur region of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland .

It was formed on January 1, 2009 from the previous communities Tschiertschen and Praden .

coat of arms

Description : In blue a golden (yellow) pole topped with a blue star and accompanied by a golden club in front and a golden ear of wheat in the back.

The coat of arms of the municipality is a combination of the two former municipal coats of arms: the stake with the star and the ear come from the Tschiertschen coat of arms, the club comes from the Praden coat of arms, which also contained a star. The colors are those of the Ten Judgment League .

geography

Tschiertschen-Praden is located on the left, southern valley side of the Schanfigg , 7 km (as the crow flies) southeast of Chur .

Neighboring communities are Arosa , Churwalden , Chur , and Vaz / Obervaz .

history

Originally the place, mentioned as Cercene in the 8th century, was settled by Romanes , which is still remembered by many field names today. The property of the Churwalden monastery , which has been occupied since 1222, established the affiliation to the Strassberg rulership, later to the Churwalden court of the Ten Courts Association. Tschiertschen joined the Reformation around 1530 ; At the end of the 16th century there was a transition from Romance to German.

Mentioned in 1157 as Pradis (name from Latin pratum , "meadow"), Walsers from Langwies settled permanently around 1300 . Logically, Praden belonged in the Drei Bünden as a neighborhood to the Langwies court of the Ten Courts Federation and only came to the Churwalden district in 1851, when today's districts were created.

population

Tschiertschen has around 220 residents, the majority of whom are Reformed denominations.

Population development
year	1850	1900	1950	2000	2005
population	124	139	174	225	219

Of the 113 residents of Praden, 106 were Swiss citizens (as of the end of 2004).

Population development
year	1850	1900	1950	1980	2000	2005
population	144	131	98	51	101	114

economy

In the village of Tschiertschen there is a primary school , an evangelical parish office , the office of the tourist organization Schanfigg-Tourismus , four hotels and a multi-purpose hall.

The majority of the population lives directly or indirectly from tourism, mainly in the winter season. Praden has hardly any share in the tourism business in the area (Tschiertschen, Lenzerheide, Arosa) and offers around 20 jobs.

traffic

The Tschiertschen- Ochsenalp - Prätsch - Carmennahütte alpine road was built between 1888 and 1890, and the Tschiertscherstrasse from Chur via Passugg and Praden to Tschiertschen in 1893/94 . The community is connected to the public transport network with the Chur – Tschiertschen post bus line .

tourism

Tschiertschen-Praden offers 25 kilometers of slopes in winter with two new four-person chairlifts ( Waldstafel and Hüenerchöpf , 2001) and two ski lifts ( Gürgaletsch and Jochalp ). The Arosa – Lenzerheide ski area connection implemented in 2013/14 was controversial. The opponents feared serious interference in the landscape of the Farur and Urdental , the proponents underlined the tourist advantages for the entire region, from which Tschiertschen-Praden could also benefit with an infrastructural connection.

Attractions

Wooden houses in the Walser building tradition characterize the compact village center of Tschiertschen. Typical are the elderly at almost all the houses under the respective Gable elaborately painted house sayings that are taken almost all of the Bible. The reformed church is a Gothic building from the 15th century.

Personalities

Peter Zinsli (1934–2011), composer, Kapellmeister and Schwyzerörgelist

literature

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 .
The municipalities of the canton of Graubünden . Chur / Zurich, 2003, ISBN 3-7253-0741-5 .
Vereinigung für Walserum (Ed.): Die Walser - A workbook for schools, 3rd edition, Verlag "Wir Walser", Brig 1998.
Hans Danuser / Walser-Vereinigung Graubünden (ed.): Old ways in Schanfigg , Verlag Walser-Vereinigung Graubünden, Splügen 1997, p. 126 ff.
Peter Masüger: From Old Rhaeto-Romanic to “Tschalfiggerisch” . In: Terra Grischuna , Volume 48, Issue 1, Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur 1990, ISSN 1011-5196 .
Hans Danuser, Ruedi Homberger: Arosa und das Schanfigg , self-published by Danuser / Homberger, Arosa 1988, p. 178 ff.
Christian Patt: Schanfigger Words - A supplement to the Davos dictionary. Walservereinigung Graubünden publisher, Chur 1986.

Web links

Commons : Tschiertschen-Praden - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the Tschiertschen-Praden community
Website of the former Tschiertschen community
Website of the former municipality of Praden
Jürg Simonett: Praden. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Jürg Simonett: Tschiertschen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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 .
↑ Tschiertschen dreams of a ski slope through Urdental. In: Südostschweiz.ch. October 29, 2014, accessed November 8, 2014 .

[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] Tschiertschen dreams of a ski slope through Urdental. In: Südostschweiz.ch. October 29, 2014, accessed November 8, 2014 .