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State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Valais (VS)

District :

Goms

Municipal municipality :

Appoint

Postal code :

3995

former BFS no. :

6051

Coordinates :

654640 / 137007 coordinates: 46 ° 22 '56 " N , 8 ° 8' 56" O ; CH1903: 654640 / 137007

Height :

1304 m above sea level M.

Area :

4.5 km²

Residents:

41 (2002)

Population density :

9 inhabitants per km²

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Parish before the merger on October 1, 2004

Ausserbinn ( Valais German Üsserbi [ˈʏsːərˌbɪ] ) is a place of the Valais municipal municipality Ernen and a civic community with a civic council. By the spring of 2005, Ausserbinn formed an independent municipality .

geography

Ausserbinn is located in the Goms region in the Binn valley and has a mild, almost Mediterranean and dry climate due to its location on a sunny slope. Ausserbinn belongs to the parish of Ernen.

history

The Grand Council of the Canton of Valais decided on September 16, 2004 to merge the municipalities of Ausserbinn, Ernen, Mühlebach and Steinhaus on October 1, 2004. Due to the negative voting result in 2002, the municipality of Ausserbinn decided to exhaust the legal remedies against this forced merger the appeal to the Federal Supreme Court was not granted suspensive effect. The municipality merger was legally effective, although the final judgment of the court was still pending in spring 2005. After the complaint of the municipality of Ausserbinn was rejected, the merger is now legally valid, with which Ausserbinn belongs to the new municipal municipality of Ernen.

population

Population development
year	1816	1850	1900	1950	2000	2002
Residents	35	55	42	59	47	41

Transport links

After Ausserbinn you can take the train to Fiesch and then take the post bus via Ernen.

Attractions

The Theodul's chapel was rebuilt around or after the middle of the 18th century. The rosary altar around 1678 was made by an unknown artist.

literature

Philipp Kalbermatter: Ausserbinn. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2017 .
Walter Ruppen: Ausserbinn . In: Society for Swiss Art History (Hrsg.): Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz (= Vol. 67 ). Untergoms Vol. 2. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1979, ISBN 3-7643-1080-4 , p. 139-147 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 108.

[1] Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 108.