Geschinen
Geschinen | ||
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State : | Switzerland | |
Canton : | Valais (VS) | |
District : | Goms | |
Municipal municipality : | Münster-Geschinen | |
Postal code : | 3985 | |
former BFS no. : | 6059 | |
Coordinates : | 664 604 / 149 678 | |
Height : | 1353 m above sea level M. | |
Area : | 10.1 km² | |
Residents: | 64 (December 31, 2002) | |
Population density : | 6 inhabitants per km² | |
Website: | www.muenster-geschinen.ch/index.php | |
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Geschinen ( Valais German [ ˈgeʃ (ː) ənə ]) is a place in the district of Goms in the German-speaking part of the Swiss canton of Valais .
Community merger
Since 2017 it has been part of the Goms municipality .
history
The place is first mentioned in 1327 as Gessinon . The place name goes back to Lombardy cassina , which means "Sennhütte, Alphütte, Meierei, Käserei".
In the avalanche winter of 1999 , a residential building on the eastern edge of the village was destroyed by an avalanche. As a result, the avalanche protection dam was raised with material from the dismantling of the military airfield in Ulrichen . As a result, a lake landscape was created.
Formerly an independent municipal community, it merged with Münster in 2005 to form the Munizipalgemeinde Münster-Geschinen , which in turn has been part of the municipal community of Goms since 2017.
population
Population development | |||||
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year | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | 2002 |
Residents | 130 | 88 | 108 | 65 | 64 |
Personalities
- Hildebrand Jost (1585–1638), Bishop of Sitten (1613–1638)
- Sebastian Weger, known as Wäger Baschi (1759–1832), trader
- Benjamin Weger (* 1989), Swiss biathlete
literature
- Philipp Kalbermatter: Geschinen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2017 .
- Walter Ruppen: Geschinen . In: Society for Swiss Art History (Hrsg.): Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz (= vol. 64 ). Das Obergoms vol. 1. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1976, ISBN 3-7643-0728-5 , p. 242-258 .
Web links
- Geschinen on the ETHorama platform
- Obergoms website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG), ed. from the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 384f.