Malans is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the

Landquart Region Landquart Region is one of the eleven Districts of Switzerland, administrative districts in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It had an area of and a population of (as of ).. It was created on 1 January 2017 as p ...

in the

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canton of Graubünden.

History

Malans is first mentioned about 840 as ''in villa Mellanze''. In 956 it was mentioned as ''Malanz''.

Heritage sites of national significance

The ''Rohan-Schanze'' archeological site and '' Bothmar Castle'' with its surrounding buildings and park are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance.Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance
21.11.2008 version, accessed 16-Oct-2009

Geography

Malans has an area, , of . Of this area, 39.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 44.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 6.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (9.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The municipality is the capital of the Maienfeld sub-district of the Landquart district, after 2017 it was part of the Landquart Region. It lies along the old Rhine valley road and the road over the ''Fadärastein'' pass into the Prättigau valley.

Demographics

Malans has a population (as of ) of . The historical population is as follows: , 7.7% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. : * most of the population speaks

Swiss German Swiss German (Standard German: , ,Because of the many different dialects, and because there is no #Conventions, defined orthography for any of them, many different spellings can be found. and others; ) is any of the Alemannic German, Alemannic ...

(94.9%), with Romansh being second most common (1.3%) and

Swiss Italian The Italian language in Italian Switzerland or Swiss Italian (, ) is the variety of the Italian language taught in the Italian-speaking area of Switzerland. While this variety is mainly spoken in the canton of Ticino and in the southern part ...

being third (0.9%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 16-Oct-2009 * the gender distribution was 49.3% male and 50.7% female.Graubunden in Numbers
accessed 21 September 2009 * the age distribution was as follows:Graubunden Population Statistics
accessed 21 September 2009

Religion

From the , 528 or 27.7% are

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

, while 1,137 or 59.6% belonged to the

Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member churches – 24 cantonal churches and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland. The P ...

. Of the rest of the population, there are 20 individuals (or about 1.05% of the population) who belong to the Orthodox Church, and there are 18 individuals (or about 0.94% of the population) who belong to another Christian church. There are 16 (or about 0.84% of the population) who are

Islam Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...

ic. There are 8 individuals (or about 0.42% of the population) who belong to another church (not listed on the census), 131 (or about 6.87% of the population) belong to no church, are agnostic or

atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

, and 50 individuals (or about 2.62% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Malans about 83.8% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a ''

Fachhochschule A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a Hochschule, German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, te ...

'').

Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 35% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (31.2%), the FDP (24.9%) and the CVP (7.5%).

Economy

, Malans has an unemployment rate of 0.89%. Employment and businesses were organized as follows:

Transportation

The municipality has a railway station, , on the Landquart–Davos Platz line. It has regular service to , , , and .

Gallery

File:ETH-BIB-Malans-LBS H1-010094.tif, Aerial view (1949) File:View from hayfield in Malans.jpg,

as seen from a hayfield in Malans

References

External links

Official Web site
{{Authority control Cultural property of national significance in Graubünden Municipalities of Graubünden