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Arosa is a town and a municipality in the district of Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is both a summer and a winter tourist resort. On 1 January 2013, the former municipalities of Calfreisen, Castiel, Langwies, Lüen, Molinis, Peist and St. Peter-Pagig merged into the municipality of Arosa.〔(Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz ) accessed 9 February 2013〕 Recently the Ski resort has been linked with lenzerheide (by cable-car) this connection has linked the transport systems of the two resorts so transport passes will now work in both resorts ==History== Arosa is first mentioned about 1330 as ''Araus''. In 1383 it was mentioned as ''Orossen'' and in 1428 it was first mentioned as ''Arosa''.〔 The first known settlements are from the 13th century. After 1300 Arosa German-speaking Walser settlers came from Davos and replaced the original Romansh-speaking inhabitants. During the following centuries, the village had a subsistence alpine pasture economy. Until 1851 it was politically a part of the Davos municipality. Arosa was established as a health resort by a German doctor in 1883, and the first sanatorium was opened in 1888. From 1900 on it gradually developed as a winter resort. In 1938 the first ski lifts were built, and in 1956 the Weisshorn cable car was opened and further rope and chair lifts followed. In 1851 Arosa separated from the municipality of Davos.〔(Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz ) published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 23 September 2009〕 Skiing in Switzerland received a big boost from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes series. Conan Doyle, an avid sportsman, was wintering in Davos. For entertainment, he ordered some skiing "boards" from Norway and hiked up the mountain with two local guides. They then skied down into Arosa, ending their journey with a luncheon at a local inn, the Seehof, the first hotel in Arosa. Conan Doyle wrote of his pioneering Davos/Arosa ski adventure in a British magazine, ''The Strand'', in 1894, and the story attracted British skiers to Switzerland. Erwin Schrödinger was vacationing in Arosa at Christmas 1926 when he made his breakthrough discovery of wave mechanics. In 1933, Thomas Mann stayed in Arosa during the first week of his Swiss exile. The 1939 film ''Over the Moon (film)'' (shot 1937-9) has brief Technicolor exterior shots of the train station and ski resort areas. On February 20, 1940, Germany's Hassall met with British J. Lonsdale Bryant in Arosa, to make a plan to overthrow the ruling German Nazi Adolf Hitler. 〔Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third. Reich, location 17382, 56% into the book.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arosa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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