Andermatt

Andermatt

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Uri Uri (UR)
District :	No district division
BFS no. :	1202i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	6490
Coordinates :	688 534 / 165 279 coordinates: 46 ° 37 '58 " N , 8 ° 35' 41" O ; CH1903: six hundred eighty-eight thousand five hundred and thirty-four / 165 27946.632894 8.594822 1447
Height :	1447 m above sea level M.
Height range :	1287–2997 m above sea level M.
Area :	62.26 km²
Residents:	1390 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	22 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	21.8% (December 31, 2,014)
Mayor :	Yvonne Baumann ( CVP )
Website:	www.gemeinde-andermatt.ch
Andermatt with a view towards Hospental
Location of the municipality
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Andermatt (“an der Wiese”, Rhaeto-Romanic Ursera ^?^/^I ) is a political municipality in the Urseren valley in the canton of Uri in Switzerland and lies at the foot of the Oberalp Pass .

geography

Andermatt is located in the Urserental on the Reuss . The community is the capital of the Urserental and extends up to the Oberalp Pass , which forms the cantonal border with Graubünden.

Only 2% of the municipality is settlement area. The agricultural area is more important with a share of 41%. These include numerous alpine areas. Because of its high location, only 5.5% of the municipal area is covered by forest and wood. Unproductive areas (bodies of water and mountains) cover more than half of the municipality with 52%.

Andermatt borders in the west on Hospental , in the north on Göschenen and Gurtnellen , in the east on the Bündner municipality Tujetsch and in the south on the Ticino municipality Airolo .

Climate table

Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Andermatt, 1981–2010

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Temperature ( ° C )	−4.7	-4.0	-0.4	3.2	7.9	10.9	13.1	12.8	9.5	6.0	0.0	-3.5	O	4.3

Precipitation ( mm )	121	115	122	125	146	132	126	132	148	124	144	116	Σ	1,551

Rainy days ( d )	11.9	11.0	13.4	13.1	13.7	13.4	12.6	12.4	10.6	10.5	11.8	12.2	Σ	146.6

Humidity ( % )	76	75	75	74	73	75	75	76	77	74	77	77	O	75.3

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history

A stone arrowhead (around 4000 BC) and some Roman coins (300 BC) are the scanty evidence of the early history of the Alpine long valley. Andermatt was first mentioned in a document in 1203. Walser from the former Germanic tribal association of the Alemanni founded colonies in the Ursern Valley, including in Andermatt (An der Matte). The Benedictine monastery of Disentis had already had basic rights here since the year 800 ; these were not replaced until 1649. Between 1818 and 1830 the Gotthard Pass was made mobile, later the Oberalp and Furka passes. Andermatt flourished as a commercial, holiday and health resort. The opening of the Gotthard railway tunnel in 1882 was, however, an “economic blow” for the town. Andermatt has been a weapon place since 1885 . In 1920 and 1946 the population successfully fought reservoir projects : the entire high valley was to be turned into a single reservoir.

Avalanches

Andermatt is a place that is very vulnerable to avalanches despite a protective forest. In the avalanche winter of 1951 , over a dozen people died in several large avalanches .

population

Population development

The population fluctuated between 657 and 746 people from 1850 to 1888. It then doubled until 1941 with a pause in growth between 1910 and 1920. After a decline in the 1940s, it grew vigorously in the 1950s and in 1970 reached a record of 1,589 residents. Between 1970 and 2000, Andermatt lost 20% of the population. The situation has since stabilized. The main genders of Andermatt are: Christen, Danioth, Jörg, Meyer, Müller, Nager, Regli, Renner, Russi, Schmid, Simmen and Zopp.

Population development
year	1799	1850	1888	1900	1910	1920	1941	1950	1970	1980	1990	2000	2005	2010	2012	2014	2016
Residents	605	677	712	818	993	986	1496	1231	1589	1545	1404	1282	1264	1304	1320	1408	1355

languages

The population speaks a highly Alemannic dialect. Almost the entire population speaks German as the everyday language. At the last census in 2000, 95.24% said German, 1.01% Portuguese and 0.86% Italian were their main languages.

Religions - denominations

The population used to be fully members of the Roman Catholic Church . The denominational relationships in 2000 still show the original structure. 1105 people were Catholic (86.19%). In addition, there were 10.14% Evangelical Reformed Christians and 2.73% non-denominational. 5 people (0.39%) did not provide any information about their creed.

Origin - nationality

Of the 1264 residents at the end of 2005, 1167 (92.33%) were Swiss citizens. The immigrants come from Central Europe (Germany and Austria), Southern Europe (Portugal, Italy and Spain) and the former Yugoslavia (Serbia-Montenegro and Croatia). At the 2000 census, 1,220 people (95.16%) were Swiss citizens; 59 of them had dual citizenship.

age structure

Andermatt

Parish Church of Saints Peter and Paul

Andermatt 1900

Andermatt on a photo by Eduard Spelterini , undated, around 1903

Historic aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer from 1931

The community has a high proportion of older people. While the proportion of people under the age of twenty makes up only 21.44% of the local population, 25% are senior citizens (60 years and older). This is a consequence of the emigration of young people to the lowlands between 1970 and 2000.

The last census in 2000 showed the following age structure:

Age	0–6 years	7-15 years	16-19 years	20-29 years	30–44 years	45–59 years	60–79 years	80 years and older
number	93	149	33	115	312	259	259	62
proportion of	7.25%	11.62%	2.57%	8.97%	24.34%	20.20%	20.20%	4.84%

Personalities

Isidor Meyer (1860–1944), politician, mayor, district administrator, mayor and councilor

politics

legislative branch

The municipal assembly forms the legislature. It usually meets twice a year.

executive

The five-person council is the executive . He works part-time. The current mayor is Yvonne Baumann (CVP) (as of 2017).

corporation

Wintry Andermatt

Valley Museum in Andermatt

Due to its history, Andermatt does not belong to the Uri corporation , but forms the Urseren corporation in the Urserental with Hospental and Realp . The old families still meet today in the town hall of Andermatt . They even have their own dish there. The valley parish in Hospental takes place every year in May . The corporation owns almost all bodies of water, meadows, pastures and mountains in the valley.

economy

In 2005 there were 22 farms offering 51 jobs. Industry and trade employed 90 people in 13 workplaces, the service sector in 78 companies 599 people (employment converted to full-time positions). The 2000 census showed 25 agricultural and forestry businesses with 61 employees. The 2001 company census came to 12 industrial and commercial enterprises with 91 and 83 service companies with 609 employees. Of the 660 employed people in Andermatt in 2000, 560 (84.85%) worked in their own municipality. In total, the place offered jobs to 780 people, of whom 560 (71.79%) were locals.

Commuters

Most of the 100 commuters do their work in other municipalities in the canton of Uri. Including 14 people in Altdorf , 12 in Göschenen , 11 in Erstfeld , 9 in Schattdorf , 7 in Hospental and 6 in Realp .

Commuters

There were 220 commuters. These came mainly from Hospental (44 people), Göschenen (30), Realp (25), Silenen (22), Altdorf (17) and Erstfeld (14).

Attractions

Parish church of St. Peter and Paul with cemetery
Ursern Valley Museum: patrician building from 1786. Served in 1799 as headquarters for Russian Field Marshal Suworow (“Suworow House”). Museum of the history of the valley, living culture, alpine farming, mule management and tourism
Devil's Bridge in the Schöllenental : Erected in 1828/1830 in place of the “Stiebenden Brücke” documented in 1303, the legendary first bridge over the Reuss in the wild Schöllenental
Suworow Monument («Russendenkmal»): Erected in 1898 near the Devil's Bridge, which was contested at the time, to commemorate Suvorov's Alpine campaign against the French in September 1799 and the fallen
Pilgrimage Church of Maria Hilf

tourism

The Chedi Andermatt

The logo for public relations of the “Skiarena Andermatt / Sedrun”

Andermatt is a winter sports area and health resort. The Gemsstock ski area (2963 m) is accessed by a cable car and a few smaller facilities and is a well-known center of freeriding .

The Andermatt Swiss Alps tourism project of the Egyptian multibillionaire and investor Samih Sawiris is hoping for a strong tourist development. With his company Orascom Hotels and Development in Andermatt, Sawiris is building a tourist resort with several hotels, 42 apartment buildings, 25 villas, several hotels, a sports and leisure center with an ice rink and indoor swimming pool, a concert and congress hall, on an area of 1.46 square kilometers, an 18-hole golf course and shops. The Federal Council, as the owner of the arsenal, the Uri government and the Andermatt municipality approved the project.

Sawiris founded the Andermatt Alpine Destination Company AADC in 2007 for the planning and implementation . The groundbreaking ceremony took place on September 26, 2009. The foundation stone was laid on August 31, 2010 . In December 2013, the hotel took Chedi Andermatt its operation, and five years later also in December, the Radisson Blu Hotel Reussen that the hotel group Radisson Blu belongs. Two ski areas were combined to form the Andermatt / Sedrun ski arena .

Gun place

The community is the location of the Andermatt arsenal of the Swiss Army . This also includes the Armed Forces Mountain Service Competence Center (Komp Zen Geb DA). This is where the mountain specialists (Geb Spez) are trained.

Historically, the federal fortress area Gotthard , also called the citadel Andermatt (e.g. Fort Bühl with various artillery and infantry works, flanking galleries and barracks ) has repeatedly defended this Alpine crossing through its contemporary expansion.

traffic

The community is accessed through the Andermatt train station of the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn . Routes lead from there to Disentis , Göschenen and Zermatt .

Others

Andermatt is known for its characteristic spell forest above the village, which has been strictly protected for centuries and has protected the place from avalanches.

There is a city partnership with the Russian city of Taldom .

In 1963, a scene from the James Bond film Goldfinger was filmed at a gas station near Andermatt . Furthermore, the scenes with the pursuit of the antagonist in his Rolls-Royce Phantom III were created in the area .

literature

Iso Müller: History of Ursern. From the beginning to Helvetic. Desertina-Verlag, Disentis 1984, DNB 890286019 .
Thomas Brunner: The art monuments of the canton Uri, Volume 4: Upper Reuss Valley and Urseren. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2008 (Art Monuments of Switzerland Volume 114). ISBN 978-3-906131-89-4 . Pp. 286-365.
Hans Stadler: Andermatt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2009 .