Arosa is a municipality in the circle Schanfigg, district Plessur of the canton grey federations in Switzerland. Holidays and Erholungsort is the high-altitude place in the Schanfigg.

Coat of arms

Description: In blue over silver (white) two-pointed mountain a golden (yellow) jet sun. The coat of arms represents the sunny altitude of the municipality.

Geography

Arosa is because of the end of the Schanfigger of valley on a height of 1 to ' 742 to 1 ' 775 m M. at the upper lake. The place is at the foot of the white horn (2 ' 653 m). It possesses a well-known and snow-safe skiing area also over 60 runway kilometers. The local surface is with 4 ' 254 hectars.

History

The first well-known settlements existed in 13. Century. After 1300 coming, German speaking Walser in Arosa established itself and drove out the original settlers from Davos. In the next centuries the Aroser population of the alpine pastoral industry lived.

Since no road connection existed by the close Plessurtal after Chur, Arosa was oriented after Davos, to which place it belonged up to the year 1851 politically. The population sank in the year 1850 on 51 inhabitants. The upswing began only starting from 1883, when Arosa of the German physician Dr. Otto Herwig, which was healed in Davos by a lung suffering, when health resort was discovered. 1888 were already opened a first sanatorium. Starting from 1900 slowly winter sports associated in addition. one took the first ski elevators to 1938 in enterprise, and 1956 were opened the white horn course. You followed soon further rope and chair lifts.

Population

Economics and infrastructure

The native ones live almost exclusively on the tourism and maintain 4 ' 287 guest beds (source: ). Since 2002 an internationally occupied operas air Opernfestival of the alpine opera Arosa under line Andreas tightens annually many hundreds daily guests.

Traffic

Arosa is terminator point of the Chur Arosa line of the course and the parallel running canton road.

Personalities

• Gian Simmen, Snowboarder
• Roger dust, ski running driver
• Kathrin authoress and television cook of the transmission which the grandmother still knew

Related links

• Official Website of the municipality Arosa
• Official Website of the Ope (r) n air festival Arosa
• Website of Arosa tourism
• Article '' Arosa '' in the historical encyclopedia of Switzerland
• Arosa mountain railways

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