Hinterrhein District
District
Native nameBezirk Hinterrhein
District dal Rain Posteriur
CantonGraubünden
CapitalThusis
Area total617.63 km²
Time zoneCET (UTC+1)
Time zone (DST)CEST (UTC+2)
Municipalities24

Hinterrhein District is a former administrative district in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It had an area of 617.67 km2 (238.48 sq mi) and had a population of 13,179 in 2015. Much of the district became part of the Viamala Region on 1 January 2017 as part of a reorganization of the Canton.[1]

Hinterrhein District consisted of five Kreise (sub-districts) and twenty-four municipalities. This number decreased from thirty-two when the municipalities of Portein, Präz, Sarn, and Tartar merged on 1 January 2010 into Cazis.[2] It decreased further in 2015 when Almens, Paspels, Pratval, Rodels and Tomils merged to form the new municipality of Domleschg.[2]

Avers sub-district
MunicipalityPopulation
()
Area (km²)
Avers93.07
Domleschg sub-district
MunicipalityPopulation
()
Area (km²)
Domleschg
Fürstenau1.30
Rothenbrunnen3.10
Scharans14.28
Sils im Domleschg9.32
Rheinwald sub-district
MunicipalityPopulation
()
Area (km²)
Hinterrhein48.38
Nufenen28.07
Splügen60.53
Sufers34.56
Schams sub-district
MunicipalityPopulation
()
Area (km²)
Andeer30.46
Casti-Wergenstein25.59
Donat4.67
Ferrera75.46
Lohn8.14
Mathon15.12
Rongellen2.04
Zillis-Reischen24.46
Thusis sub-district
MunicipalityPopulation
()
Area (km²)
Cazis31.2
Flerden6.06
Masein4.19
Thusis6.84
Tschappina24.67
Urmein4.35
Includes the area of Portein, Präz, Sarn and Tartar which merged into Cazis on 1 January 2010.

Mergers

Languages

Languages of Hinterrhein District, GR
LanguagesCensus 2000
NumberPercent
German10,90985.5%
Romansh7285.7%
Italian3012.4%
TOTAL12,758100%

References

  1. ^ Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz - Mutationsmeldungen 2016 accessed 16 February 2017
  2. ^ Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (in German) accessed 2 January 2013