Maladers

Maladers

Maladers ( [ mɐladərs ]? / I ) is a municipality in the district Schanfigg, District Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

Coat of arms

Blazon: In blue M gold, topped with pfahlgestelltem blue arrow.

The initial of the municipality is covered by the arrow as a symbol of the valley. Ten colors of the federal court.

Geography

Maladers is 3 km (air line ) southeast of Chur on the main road to Arosa. The municipal area extends on the right, north side of Schanfiggs of the deep Plessur ( lowest point in Sassal, 620 m), which forms the valley to Calfreiser Tobel the southern border, up to the western foothills of the Hochwangkette. There lies the Montalin, just below the summit, the highest point of the Territory with 2220 m. In addition to the scattered village Maladers, located on a terrace above the wooded, steep lower slope zone, belong to the municipality, the hamlet fire arable and sax

Of the total municipal area of ​​761 ha 497 ha of woods and forests are covered. At least 208 ha can be used for agricultural purposes, but these are 145 ha mountain pastures. Each 28 ha settlement area or unproductive area (mostly mountains). Neighboring municipalities are Arosa, the city of Chur, Chur Walden, Trimmis and Lenzerheide - Praden.

History

Finds from the Bronze Age and a 1977 discovered Roman Mercuriusstatuette prove the early settlement of the place which is mentioned as Maladru 1156 documentary. Originally the Chur court, the village came in the late Middle Ages to the court Ausserschanfigg the ten federal court. Maladers went late 16th century from the Rhaeto about the German language and joined 1635 - the last village of the valley - the Reformation.

Population

From the end of 2004 506 inhabitants were 491 Swiss nationals.

Economy and Transport

Maladers, according to self-promotion, the sunniest village in the Grisons, has steadily developed into a popular residential community on the outskirts of the capital of the canton. At the site itself were 37 people employed in the agriculture and forestry, 32 in the commercial sector and 23 in the service sector (as of 2000-01 ).

The community is connected by several lines Postbus Chur- Peist to the network of public transport. The first post bus connections to Chur was put into operation on 15 May 1935. The service station Untersax the Arosa train is indeed on Mala Manual This municipality, but offers no connection to this line.

In the case of realization of the project, the area below Maladers destination of the St. Luzibrücke will be.

Attractions

The Reformed village church is located in the upper village, surrounded by old houses. The nave with two fin-free, round-arched vaulted ceilings and the bell tower date from the Romanesque period. The choir with arched niche and sacrament with iron door and the sacristy cultivation are gothic. 1938 was discovered during renovation work traces of frescoes on South and choir wall. There were figures of the Apostles and a kneeling statue of donor revealed. Although the well-known art historian Erwin Grisons Poeschel get the paintings as well and panelist of remarkable quality, the Protestant parish decided to whitewash the frescoes again. 1922 built the Catholic community has its own chapel (St. Anthony Chapel ) on the valley road below the village.

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