page_title: Tschiertschen
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Tschiertschen / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Bergtocht van Tschiertschen (1350 meter) via Ruchtobel naar Löser (1680 meter). English: Mountain trip from Tschiertschen (1350 meters) via Ruchtobel to Löser (1680 meter).
context_page_description: Tschiertschen is a village in the municipality of Tschiertschen-Praden in the district of Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
  The formerly independent municipality merged with Praden to form Tschiertschen-Praden on January 1, 2009.
context_section_description: Tschiertschen has an area, as of 2006, of 21.4 km² (8.3 sq mi).  Of this area, 52.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 22.6% is forested.  Of the rest of the land, 1.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (23.4%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).
  The village is located in the Churwalden sub-district of the Plessur district on the mountain slopes above the left side of the Schanfigger valley.  It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Tschiertschen at an elevation of 1,351 m (4,432 ft).  It merged with Praden to form Tschiertschen-Praden on January 1, 2009.
caption: Tschiertschen (1350 meter).
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