Schiers

Schiers

Schiers ( Walser German Schiersch, Romansh Ashera? / I ) is a municipality in the same county and the District Prättigau- Davos in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

Coat of arms

Blazon: Azure, a continuous golden (yellow ) cross

The municipality took over the original coat of arms of the Ten Jurisdictions Federal, originating from the coat of arms of Schierser court Amman Jann Grest of Buchen from the years 1516, 1517 and 1540.

Geography

Schiers located in Prättigau at the mouth of Threaded into the country Quart, which flows through the municipal area to about 5 km in length from southeast to northwest. The to trough, down almost continuously forested hillside south of the river, the Landquartberg, reaching around 1,600 m above sea level. M. Much larger and more diverse raises the northern part of the territory dar. It extends from the country quart up to the peaks of the Rätikon, ie up to the watershed against the Montafon, the same border with Austria. The the Kalkstöcken the Drusenfluh ( main peak 2827 m, the highest point of the municipality ) upstream hilly landscape is made of soft Bündnerschiefer so that the Schraubach and its numerous source and tributary streams deep gorges dug, which separate the scattered on the hills pastures and Alps from each other and road construction and dependents make very expensive.

In addition to the village street Schiers to the municipality include the fractions Lunden, Fajauna - Stels, Maria Montagna, Pusserein and Schuders, which from 1851 to 1878 formed a separate municipality.

Neighboring municipalities are Grüsch, Buchen im Prättigau, Vandans, Tschagguns (both at the Austrian state of Vorarlberg belonging ), St.Antönien, Luzein, Jenaz and Furna.

History

Various discoveries prove the settlement of the area in the Bronze and Iron Ages. The place Scieres whose name is as well as the nearby village Ascharina on Romanesque ashera " maple " goes back, and the church of St. John, founded in the 5th century early Church of the Prättigau be documented in 1101. The sovereignty passed through inheritance in 1335 of the Vazern to the Toggenburg, after their end - the 1436 gave rise to the creation of tens of Federal Court - finally to the House of Habsburg, of whose reign the Prättigauer could redeem 1649. Within the ten federal court Schiers, Grüsch and Buchen formed the court Schiers, which was in 1679 divided into two half courts. From the right hand of the 12th century wealthy in Schiers Chur cathedral chapter is a separate court rule had, the chapter court Schiers developed, which in 1506 united with the court Schiers. Until then, you spoke of the covenant of the eleven courts.

1563 joined the Church of the Reformation. In the same century we went from the Romanesque over to the German language.

Education

Schiers is known for its Protestant middle school Schiers, a 1837 founded as a teacher training college christian school with boarding facilities. 1894-1900 worked here Gottfried Fankhauser as a lecturer. One of the most famous student was Alberto Giacometti.

Economy

As the site of the Regional Hospital, which is operated by the Flury Stiftung, and several educational institutions, the community fulfills a central function in the valley. In addition to a number of companies in the construction industry and related industries (wood processing, Gravel ) there is a large butcher and meat- and a book printing company that also publishes, founded in 1901, three times weekly Prättigauer newspaper. In Schiers are the print shop and the editorial office of the regional newspaper Prättigauer and Herrschäftler.

Traffic

Schiers is on the line opened in 1889 Landquart - Monastery of the Rhaetian Railway. There are hourly direct connections with RegioExpress trains to Davos and Lower Engadine. The station was completely rebuilt in 2003-04. Four postal routes open up the smaller groups and connect the place with the neighboring communities Fanas and Luzein.

Attractions

  • On the territory of the municipality is the Schiers was completed in 1930 Salginatobelbrücke, which was named in 1991 by the American Society of Civil Engineers to a world monument.
  • Also worth seeing is the Reformed Church of St. Johann. It is a late Gothic hall building, built in 1519 - '22. The ship's ceiling and the gallery date from the year 1926. Pfarrgarten In two earlier buildings dating from the 5th and 6th centuries were marked in the floor plan with stone slabs.
  • Sagastägbrücke, Architect: Walter Bieler
  • Residential development field, Architect: Martin Spühler
  • Single Family Tettamanti, 2004, Architect: Riccardo Tettamanti

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Theophil Forchhammer (1847-1923), composer, organist and church musician
  • Eduard Imhof (1895-1986), cartographer
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