Schiers
Schiers is a Swiss village in the Prättigau and a municipality in the political district Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of the Grisons. The first concrete girder bridge ever built, Salginatobel Bridge, is located in Schiers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,640 residents
- Description: municipality in Switzerland
- Also known as: “CH3962” and “Schiers GR”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Schiers railway station and Reformierte Kirche St. Johann (Schiers).
Schiers railway station
Railway station
Schiers railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Schiers, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. It is an intermediate stop on the Rhaetian Railway 1,000 mm metre gauge Landquart–Davos Platz line.
Reformierte Kirche St. Johann (Schiers)
Church
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Reformierte Kirche St. Johann (Schiers) is a church.
Grüsch railway station
Railway station
Grüsch railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Grüsch, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. It is an intermediate stop on the Rhaetian Railway 1,000 mm metre gauge Landquart–Davos Platz line. Grüsch railway station is situated 3½ km west of Schiers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Furna and Seewis im Prättigau.
Furna
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Furna is a Swiss village in the Prättigau and a municipality in the political district Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of the Grisons. Furna is situated 3½ km south of Schiers.
Seewis im Prättigau
Village
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Seewis im Prättigau is a Swiss village in the Prättigau and a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of the Grisons. Seewis im Prättigau is situated 4½ km west of Schiers.
Fanas
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fanas is a Swiss village in the Prättigau and a former municipality in the political district of Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2011 Fanas and Valzeina were merged with the municipality of Grüsch.
Schiers
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Region Prättigau / Davos, Graubünden, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.9689° or 46° 58′ 8″ northLongitude
9.69° or 9° 41′ 24″ eastPopulation
2,640Elevation
1,115 metres (3,658 feet)Open location code
8FRFXM9R+H2OpenStreetMap ID
node 240122184OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7287084Wikidata ID
Q65244
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Schiers” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Schiers”
- Basque: “Schiers”
- Breton: “Schiers”
- Catalan: “Schiers”
- Cebuano: “Schiers”
- Chinese: “希尔斯”
- Chinese: “希爾斯”
- Czech: “Schiers”
- Dutch: “Schiers”
- Esperanto: “Fajauna-Stels”
- Esperanto: “Lunden GR”
- Esperanto: “Maria-Montagna”
- Esperanto: “Pusserein”
- Esperanto: “Schiers”
- Esperanto: “Schuders”
- French: “Schiers”
- German: “Schiers”
- Hebrew: “שירס”
- Hungarian: “Schiers”
- Irish: “Schiers”
- Italian: “Schiers”
- Kazakh: “Ширс”
- Lombard: “Schiers”
- Malay: “Schiers”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Schiers”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schiers”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Schiers”
- Piemontese: “Schiers”
- Polish: “Schiers”
- Portuguese: “Schiers”
- Romansh: “Aschera”
- Romansh: “Schiers”
- Russian: “Ширс”
- Spanish: “Schiers”
- Swedish: “Schiers”
- Swiss German: “Schiers”
- Tosk Albanian: “Schiers”
- Turkish: “Schiers”
- Ukrainian: “Ширс”
- Upper Sorbian: “Schiers”
- Uzbek: “Schiers”
- Uzbek: “Shirs”
- Uzbek: “Ширс”
- Venetian: “Schiers”
- Volapük: “Schiers”
- Waray (Philippines): “Schiers”
- Welsh: “Schiers”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Schiers”. Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.