St. Peter, Switzerland
St. Peter GR
St. Peter is a former faction of the former parish of St. Peter- Pagig in a circle Schanfigg, District Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2008, the congregation merged with St. Peter Pagig to the new parish of St. Peter- Pagig. Since early 2013, St. Peter, where a branch of the new municipality is part of the municipality of Arosa.
Geography
St. Peter, 9 km (air line) east located on the northern side of the Schanfiggs of Chur, consists of several hamlets on the main road to Arosa and numerous farmsteads. The main village are St. Peter ( West Quarter with the Church, 1'253 m above sea level. M. and Ostquartier, 1259 m), Lavein ( 1274 m ) and Cufa ( 1263 m). Above is Fatschel (1515 m), a former mountain pasture, which has developed into a tourist center of the municipality and is now occupied.
Apart from a small corner in the southwest, where the former municipality joined the Talfluss Plessur in the field of mountain nose sand Grind to St. Peter and the neighboring community Molinis decided to define the common border along the 1914 opened railway line from Chur to Arosa. Above the resort 's territory extended as a narrow strip, bounded on the west by large ravines and Pardieler Tobel, to the east by including, up to the ridge of the Hochwangkette where the Cunggel ( 2,413 m ) represented the shoulder of the Fatschazer ravine the highest point of the municipality.
From all over the former municipality of 688 ha 420 ha is arable, of which 350 ha mountain pastures. In addition, 207 hectares are covered by forest and woodland and 32 hectares of mountains. The rest of the community area were the 29 ha settlement area.
Neighboring communities were Pagig, Furna, Peist and Molinis.
Coat of arms
Description: In a pale blue as asked, fallen golden (yellow ) key. The key is the attribute of St. Peter, who is the patron of the oldest parish church of Schanfiggs, and indicates the name of the community. Colors of the Ten Jurisdictions Federal
History
The Church of St. Peter, mother church of the populated novels outer valley portion is documented in 831 as a possession of the monastery Ragaz. In the Three Leagues of the place was as a neighborhood of the Court Ausserschanfigg to ten court covenant. Gradually add the remaining neighborhoods built their own churches, St. Peter but retained as Landsgemeindeplatz the valley of central importance. Around 1530, the village of the Reformation joined; End of the 16th century it went from the Rhaeto over to the German language.
St. Peter was from 1851 until the beginning of the 21st century, the Bsatzig in Schanfigg venue.
Population
Demographics
From the end of 2004 156 inhabitants were 140 ( = 90 % ) Swiss nationals.
Economy and Transport
St. Peter is the center of the 20 km ski slopes having winter sports area Hochwang. It operated a chairlift from the valley station Fatschel and one surface lift.
As of 2000-01, 11 people were in the agriculture and forestry employed in the commercial sector 7 and the services sector 26
St. Peter is connected to the grid Schanfiggerstrasse of public transport through the station St. Peter- Molinis on the railway line from Chur to Arosa on the Rhaetian Railway and, since May 5, 1957, several stops today Postbus Chur- Peist.
Attractions
Symbol of St. Peter is the massive church tower, formerly a free-standing tower. The first church from the 9th century date back parts of the vessel walls, its present character with a polygonal choir and a carved wooden ceiling in the nave was the church in the 15th century. 1922 frescoes were incurred 1500-1510.