Gluringen

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Valais (VS)

District :

Goms

Municipal municipality :

Goms VS

Postal code :

3998

former BFS no. :

6060

Coordinates :

661 041 / 146 456 coordinates: 46 ° 28 '0 " N , 8 ° 14' 0" O ; CH1903: 661 041 / 146456

Height :

1357 m above sea level M.

Area :

7.4 km²

Residents:

145 (December 31, 2002)

Population density :

20 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.gemeinde-goms.ch

map

Parish before the merger on October 1, 2004

Gluringen ( Valais German [ ˈglyːrigə ]) is a village in the district of the same name in the Swiss canton of Valais , which has belonged to the municipality of Goms since 2017 . It also forms a parish of the dean's office in Ernen .

history

The place name is an -ingen -name, in which the Old High German personal name Gluro is and thus means "among the people, the clan of Gluro". He goes to the Alemannic settlement of the Upper Valais in the 8th / 9th. Century back.

The area must have been inhabited as early as the Roman times, because in the Gluringer Feld a Roman lavender vessel was found, which was used as an ash urn. The place name was first mentioned in documents in 1203. This happened in connection with Lodowicus de Gluringen, a nobleman related to the representatives of the nobles von Mörel and Fiesch. It is not known whether he owned a residential tower in the area. In any case, its property passed to the Knights of Fiesch in 1325. In the same year Cono de Castello and his son Perrot sold their Huben in Glurigen to the Knights of Fiesch. It is believed that as early as 1237, it is certain from 1367, the village community was subordinated to the free court of Biel.

The current parish church of Gluringen was consecrated in 1707, the bell tower was built in 1872. At least two chapels had previously stood at this location. The diocese granted the building permit for the first chapel in 1428. It was rebuilt around 1640.

Gluringen merged with Reckingen in 2004 to form the municipality of Reckingen-Gluringen and with this in 2017 to form the municipality of Goms .

population

Population development
year	1816	1850	1900	1950	2000	2002
Residents	98	126	113	130	161	145

Attractions

literature

Philipp Kalbermatter: Gluringen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2017 .
Walter Ruppen: Gluringen . 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. 330-350 .

Web links

Gluringen on the ETHorama platform
Website of the municipality of Reckingen-Gluringen

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 under the direction of Andres Kristol, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p 393.

[lsg-1] 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 under the direction of Andres Kristol, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p 393.