Zernez

Municipality
	Coat of arms
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	Coordinates: 46°42′N 10°06′E / 46.700°N 10.100°ECoordinates: 46°42′N 10°06′E / 46.700°N 10.100°E
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Graubünden
District	Inn
Area
• Total	203.85 km2 (78.71 sq mi)
Elevation	1,474 m (4,836 ft)
Population (Dec 2016)
• Total	1,540
• Density	7.555/km2 (19.57/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	7530
Localities	Brail, Il Fuorn, Ova Spin, Runatsch
Surrounded by	Ardez, Lavin, Livigno (IT-SO), S-chanf, Susch, Tarasp, Tschierv, Valdidentro (IT-SO)
Website	www.zernez.ch ; SFSO statistics

Zernez is a municipality of the district Inn in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2015, the former municipalities of Lavin and Susch merged into the municipality of Zernez.^[1]

Zernez is a major node in the regional road network, with roads leading into the Upper Engadine and towards Italy, the Lower Engadine and towards Austria, over the Fuorn Pass into the Val Mustair and over the Flüela Pass. Zernez is the center for visitors of the Swiss National Park (Romansh: Parc Naziunalcode: rm is deprecated ).

Villages

Villages of Zermez are:

Brail
Il Fuorn
Ova Spin
Runatsch

Zernez Media

Zernez on an aerial photography by Walter Mittelholzer (1925)
Fuorn Pass or Ofen Pass (Romansh: Pass dal Fuorn, German: Ofenpass) connecting Zernez in the Engadin valley with Val Müstair.
Abandoned village of Gonda
Die reformierte Kirche in Zernez
Schloss Planta-Wildenberg (Planta-Wildenberg Castle), medieval tower-house with Baroque annexe
La Serra tower outside Zernez
Morenturm, a medieval tower house

References

↑ Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (in German) accessed 27 April 2016

Other websites

Media related to Zernez at Wikimedia Commons

Official website (in German)
Paul Eugen Grimm: Zernez in Romansh, German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

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[1] Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (in German) accessed 27 April 2016

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Municipality

Coat of arms
Location of Zernez Lua error in Module:Infobox_mapframe at line 118: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 526: Unable to find the specified location map definition: "Module:Location map/data/Switzerland" does not exist.
Coordinates: 46°42′N 10°06′E / 46.700°N 10.100°E / 46.700; 10.100Coordinates: 46°42′N 10°06′E / 46.700°N 10.100°E / 46.700; 10.100
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Graubünden
District	Inn
Area
• Total	203.85 km² (78.71 sq mi)
Elevation	1,474 m (4,836 ft)
Population (Dec 2016)
• Total	1,540
• Density	7.555/km² (19.57/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	7530
Localities	Brail, Il Fuorn, Ova Spin, Runatsch
Surrounded by	Ardez, Lavin, Livigno (IT-SO), S-chanf, Susch, Tarasp, Tschierv, Valdidentro (IT-SO)
Website	www.zernez.ch SFSO statistics