Schiers (German pronunciation: [ˈʃiːɐs]) is a Swiss village in the Prättigau and a municipality in the political district Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden.

Of the rest of the land, 2.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (17.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

[4] Before 2017, the municipality was located in the Schiers sub-district of the Prättigau/Davos district on the border with Austria.

[7] The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Schiers is; 339 children or 12.9% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 421 teenagers or 16.0% are between 10 and 19.

[4] From the 2000 census[update], 389 or 14.8% are Roman Catholic, while 1,755 or 66.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

[6] The historical population is given in the following table:[3][7] The Salginatobel Bridge is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

In 1991, it was declared an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, the thirteenth such structure and the first concrete bridge so dedicated.

[9] As with Maillart's Schwandbach Bridge and Vessy Bridge, the structure's fame among civil engineers is a consequence of the techniques involved and the elegance of its design rather than its prominent location: it serves a town of under a thousand people.