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VS is the abbreviation for the canton of Valais in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Bratschf .
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Bratsch coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ValaisCanton of Valais Valais (VS)
District : Leukw
Municipal municipality : Gampel violai2
Postal code : 3957
former BFS no. : 6103
Coordinates : 620771  /  130065 coordinates: 46 ° 19 '18 "  N , 7 ° 42' 30"  O ; CH1903:  620771  /  130065
Height : 1090  m above sea level M.
Area : 6.2  km²
Residents: 517 (December 31, 2007)
Population density : 83 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.weibil.ch
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Parish before the merger on December 31, 2008

Bratsch ( Valais German : Bratsch ) is a village and part of the political municipality Gampel-Bratsch in the Leuk district in the German-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland .

Surname

In the Geographical Dictionary of Switzerland , the assumption is expressed, is that the name Bratsch from medieval Latin bracca , "dyke wall, massive wall" deduce because Bratsch is on a terrace that slopes on three sides in high rock walls. Bratsch was first mentioned in 1228 as Praes .

history

Bratsch comprised the clustered village of the same name on a terrace on the steeply sloping slope, above the hilltop settlement Änggersch as well as the settlements Getwing and Niedergampel on the plain of the Rhone Valley . 1228 and 1242 Praes, 1309 Prahcs, 1322 Praes, 1357 Prayes, 1408 Prages, 1532 Bratsch. Alemannic settlement introduced Germanization, which was completed in the 15th century. The communitas, first mentioned in the 14th century, belonged to the Vice Dominate Leuk , which came to the Zenden of the same name in 1613. Until the establishment of the Erschmatt-Bratsch parish (1721), Bratsch was parish in Leuk (Marienkapelle from the 17th century). After 1666 there was a plague cemetery in Erschmatt. Änggersch, formerly a communal double structure with Bratsch (burger statute 1672, common burger list 1826), fell into a branch settlement in the 19th century. In 1873, the community expanded through the partial connection of the former temporary settlement and today's residential community Niedergampel. After the opening of the Lonzawerke in Gampel (1897), the working-class farming families soon switched from the traditional multi-level mixed farming - arable farming (two-row system with flurzwang), livestock farming (individual alpine farming with a common hat on Alp Niwen), in the valley viticulture - to more extensive forms of farming. In 1990 94% of the workforce worked outside of Bratsch.

population

Population development
year 1798 1850 1900 1902 1950 1970 2000 2007
Residents 166 128 199 364 458 503 464 517

In 1902 there were 88 houses with 364 Roman Catholic residents in the former municipality of Bratsch .

On January 20, 2008, the voters of the communities Gampel and Bratsch decided to merge the two communities. The merger took effect on January 1, 2009.

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Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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. 328, keyword Bratsch   ( scan of the lexicon page ).
  2. ^ Gregor Zenhäusern: Bratsch. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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