Maladers

Maladers is a municipality in the district of Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

History

Maladers is first mentioned in 1156 as de Maladru.

Geography

Maladers has an area, as of 2006, of 7.6 km² (2.9 sq mi). Of this area, 27.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 65.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 3.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (3.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

The municipality is located in the Schanfigg sub-district of the Plessur district at the entrance to the Schanfiggs valley. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Maladers and the hamlets of Sax and Brandacker.

Demographics

Maladers has a population (as of 31 December 2014) of 506.As of 2008, 5.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -6.4%. Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (95.5%), with Romansh being second most common ( 2.2%) and Italian being third ( 1.0%).