Agarn
Agarn | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Valais (VS) |
District : | Leuk |
BFS no. : | 6101 |
Postal code : | 3951 |
Coordinates : | 617 420 / 127337 |
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 | |
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
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 | |||||||||
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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 .