Mastrils is a former

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in the district of Landquart in the

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of Graubünden. The municipalities of

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and Mastrils merged on 1 January 2012 into the new municipality of Landquart.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 21 December 2011

History

Mastrils is first mentioned in 1318 as ''Ponstrils''. In 1345 it was mentioned as ''Bastrils''. In 1854 the municipality separated from

Zizers Zizers ( rm, Zezras) is a municipality in the Landquart Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria-Hungary died in Zizers. History Zizers is first mentioned in 824 as ''Zizuris''. Geography Zizers has ...

to become an independent municipality.

Geography

Mastrils has an area, , of . Of this area, 23.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 68.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (4.9%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The municipality is located in the Fünf Dörfer sub-district of the Landquart district. It is a widely scattered settlement on in the foothills of the Calanda mountains. It consists of the settlements of Isla, Tardisbrücke and Trätsch.

Demographics

Mastrils has a population (as of ) of . , 8.5% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 1.1%. Most of the population () speaks German (93.0%), with Italian being second most common ( 1.9%) and Romansh being third ( 1.5%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 15-Oct-2009 , the gender distribution of the population was 49.4% male and 50.6% female.Graubunden in Numbers
accessed 21 September 2009 The age distribution, , in Mastrils is; 54 children or 10.2% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old. 31 teenagers or 5.9% are 10 to 14, and 48 teenagers or 9.1% are 15 to 19. Of the adult population, 53 people or 10.0% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 88 people or 16.6% are 30 to 39, 86 people or 16.3% are 40 to 49, and 82 people or 15.5% are 50 to 59. The senior population distribution is 38 people or 7.2% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 38 people or 7.2% are 70 to 79, there are 10 people or 1.9% who are 80 to 89, and there are 1 people or 0.2% who are 90 to 99.Graubunden Population Statistics
accessed 21 September 2009 In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 35.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (29%), the CVP (14.8%) and the FDP (14.4%). The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Mastrils about 71.8% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a ''

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''). Mastrils has an unemployment rate of 1.08%. , there were 36 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 16 businesses involved in this sector. 14 people are employed in the

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and there are 5 businesses in this sector. 44 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 12 businesses in this sector. The historical population is given in the following table:

References

External links

Official Web site
{{Authority control Landquart, Switzerland Former municipalities of Graubünden