La cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Coire, appelée en allemand Kathedrale St. Mariä Himmelfahrt, est la cathédrale du diocèse de Coire en Suisse ; cette église catholique est située dans le quartier du Hof, dans la vieille ville de Coire.
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Chur Cathedral, otherwise known as the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary, is the Catholic cathedral of the diocese of Chur in Switzerland. The episcopal palace of the bishop of Chur is beside the church. The cathedral claims the relics of St Lucius of Britain, said to have been martyred nearby in the late 2nd century. During the Swiss Reformation, the Catholic population of the city were confined to a ghetto enclosed around the bishop's court beside the cathedral. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
The first building on the site probably dates from the first half of the 5th century. The second church was built by Bishop Tello at some time before his death in 773. The current building was built between 1154 and 1270. In 1272 it was dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The round arch window along the center axis is the largest medieval window in Graubünden. The late-Gothic high altar was completed in 1492 by Jakob Russ.
The cathedral was renovated from 2001 to 2007.
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The Cantonal School of Graubünden is the largest high school in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is located at the Alte Schanfiggerstrasse / Arosastrasse 2 next to the Theological College in Chur.
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Chur is the capital and largest town of the Swiss canton of the Grisons and lies in the Grisonian Rhine Valley, where the Rhine turns towards the north, in the northern part of the canton. The city, on the right bank of the Rhine, is reputedly the oldest town in Switzerland.
The official language of Chur is German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of Alemannic, known as Grisonian German. Romansh and Italian are significantly spoken in the city as a result of the trilingual identity of the canton.
On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of Maladers merged into Chur and on 1 January 2021 Haldenstein also merged. On 1 January 2025 the former municipality of Tschiertschen-Praden merged into Chur.
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Chur Altstadt railway station is a small railway station on the Chur–Arosa railway of the Rhaetian Railway. It is situated near the old town of Chur, on Plessurquai by the Plessur river, less than a kilometre from the main railway station of the city. It was called Chur Stadt railway station until 8 December 2018.
The halt is closer to the shops, bars and attractions of the old town than the main station. A number of local and Postauto bus services converge at Malteser, located nearby where Grabenstrasse and Engadinstrasse converge. A footbridge connects the halt with Lindenquai, on the other side of the river.
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The Graubündner Kantonalbank is a Swiss cantonal bank which is part of the 24 cantonal banks serving Switzerland's 26 cantons. The headquarters are located in Chur, and there are 45 branches around Graubünden.