Tschiertschen-Praden

Lenzerheide

Tschiertschen - Praden is a municipality in the district of Chur Walden, District Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

It was formed on 1 January 2009 from the former municipalities Lenzerheide and Praden.

Coat of arms

Description: In blue a golden (yellow ) pile covered with a blue star and accompanied front of a golden thigh, back of a golden spike.

The municipal coat of arms is a combination of the two former municipal arms: From the crest of the pile Lenzerheide come to the issued star and the ear, from the arms of Praden, which also contained a star, comes the mace. The colors are those of the ten federal court.

Geography

Tschiertschen - Praden is on the left, south side of the valley of the Schanfiggs, 7 km (air line ) southeast of Chur.

Neighboring municipalities are Arosa, Chur Walden, Maladers, and Vaz / Obervaz.

History

Originally mentioned as early as the 8th century Cercene place of novels was inhabited what today still remember many field names. The occupied since 1222 estate of the monastery Chur Walden established the membership of the rule Strassberg, later to the court Churwalden Ten Court Federal. About 1530 Lenzerheide joined the Reformation; End of the 16th century it went from the Romanesque over to the German language.

The 1157 as Pradis ( Name from the Latin pratum, " meadow ") mentioned Praden was settled in 1300 by the Walser people from Long Meadow permanently. Consequently belonged Praden in the Three Leagues as a neighborhood to court Langwies the ten federal court and was until 1851 the county Churwalden, than today's circuits were created.

Population

Lenzerheide has around 220 inhabitants mostly reformed denomination.

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

Economy

In the village of Lenzerheide, there is a primary school, a Protestant parish office, the office of the Tourist Organization Schanfigg tourism, four hotels and a multipurpose hall.

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

Traffic

Between 1888 and 1890 the Alpsträsschen Lenzerheide - Ochsenalp - Prätsch - Carmennahütte was built in 1893-94 and the Tschiertscherstrasse from Chur over Passugg and Praden to Tschiertschen. The community is connected with the postal bus from Chur to Lenzerheide to the public transport network.

Tourism

Tschiertschen - Praden offers 25 km of slopes in winter with two new quad chairlifts ( Forest panel and Hüenerchöpf, 2001) and two ski lifts ( Gürgaletsch and Jochalp ). The planned for the 2013/14 season ski connection Arosa Lenzerheide has been controversial. Of the opponents serious interventions were feared in the landscape of Farur and Urdentals, proponents stressed the tourism benefits for the entire region, which also Tschiertschen - Praden could benefit.

Attractions

Wooden houses in the Walser building tradition characterize the compact village center of Lenzerheide. Typical are the on almost all older homes under the respective Gable elaborately painted house awards which are taken almost all of the Bible. The Reformed Church is a Gothic building of the 15th century.

Famous people

• Peter Zinsli (1934-2011), composer, conductor and Swiss accordion player