County VS

VS is the abbreviation for the canton of Valais in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries in the name Grafschaft .

county

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Valais (VS)

District :

Goms

Municipal municipality :

Goms

Postal code :

3989

former BFS no. :

6073

Coordinates :

659 877 / 145149 coordinates: 46 ° 27 '18 " N , 8 ° 13' 5" O ; CH1903: 659,877 / 145149

Height :

1312 m above sea level M.

Area :

22.6 km²

Residents:

210 (December 31, 2016)

Population density :

9 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.gemeinde-goms.ch

View of Biel

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2017

Grafschaft [ ˈgrɑːfʃɑft ] was until December 31, 2016 a municipal municipality in the Goms district in the German-speaking part of the Swiss canton of Valais . On January 1, 2017, it merged with the communities of Blitzingen , Münster-Geschinen , Niederwald and Reckingen-Gluringen to form the new community of Goms . Grafschaft also forms a parish belonging to the dean's office in Ernen .

history

The former municipality of Grafschaft was created on January 1, 2001 from the three former municipalities of Biel , Ritzingen and Selkingen . The name for the new municipality was taken from the area of the same name, which describes the landscape between the Walibach near Selkingen to the Reckingerbach and perhaps goes back to the former Counts of Mörel .

population

Population development
year	2000	2016
Residents	192	210

Personalities

Alphons Walther (* 1836 in Selkingen, † 1898), State Councilor (1872-1893)

Attractions

Wooden houses in Ritzingen
Steam train in Biel station

literature

Walter Ruppen: Selkingen . 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. 408-427 .
Bernard Truffer: County. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2017 .

Web links

Commons : County - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

County county 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 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 403.

[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 403.