Agarn

Agarn

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Valais Valais (VS)
District :	Leukw
BFS no. :	6101i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	3951
Coordinates :	617 420 / 127337 coordinates: 46 ° 17 '50 " N , 7 ° 39' 53" O ; CH1903: six hundred and seventeen thousand four hundred twenty / 12733746.297215 7.664717 620
Height :	620 m above sea level M.
Height range :	617-3024 m above sea level M.
Area :	7.65 km²
Residents:	718 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	94 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.agarn.ch
Location of the municipality
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Agarn at Turtmann (1955)

Agarn (in Valais German : Agaru [ ˈag̊ˌaːɾŭ ]) is a political municipality and a civic community with a civic council of the Leuk district and a parish of the dean's office in Leuk in the German-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland .

history

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1955

The first mention of the place from the year 1229 attests to apud aer quinque casamenta ‹five buildings near Agarn›. The place name, the 1252 and 1272 as Aert , 1267 as Ayert and 1391 as a transient appears likely to Celtic * akarno <( mountain ) Maple > decline.

Agarn burned almost completely in 1799 and in March 1899.

population

Population development
year	1703	1850	1900	1950	2000	2010	2012	2014	2016
Residents	about 100	186	279	479	758	789	802	782	764

Personalities

Herbert Dirren (* 1941), Grand Councilor (1973–1985), Grand Council President (1980–1981), National Councilor (1977–1987)

literature

Philipp Kalbermatter: Agarn. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2009 .
German Lötscher: Agarn's journey through time. 2010.

Web links

Commons : Agarn - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the municipality of Agarn
Agarn on the ETHorama platform

Individual evidence

↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b Andres Kristol: Agarn VS (Leuk) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss municipality names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 77. Quoted phonetic transcription : [ ˈagˌaːru ].

^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 1: Aa - Emmengruppe . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1902, p. 25, keyword agars or agarn ( scan of the lexicon page ).

^ Philipp Kalbermatter: Agarn. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

[1] Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .

[ks-2] Andres Kristol: Agarn VS (Leuk) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss municipality names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 77. Quoted phonetic transcription : [ ˈagˌaːru ].

[Geogr.Lex-3] Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 1: Aa - Emmengruppe . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1902, p. 25, keyword agars or agarn ( scan of the lexicon page ).

[4] Philipp Kalbermatter: Agarn. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .