Grengiols

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Grengiols
Coat of arms of Grengiols
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ValaisCanton of Valais Valais (VS)
District : East of Raronw
BFS no. : 6177i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 3993
Coordinates : 650 894  /  135245 coordinates: 46 ° 22 '0 "  N , 8 ° 6' 0"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and fifty thousand eight hundred and ninety-four  /  135245
Height : 995  m above sea level M.
Height range : 793–3271 m above sea level M.
Area : 58.52  km²
Residents: 424 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 7 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.grengiols.ch
Grengiols

Grengiols
Location of the municipality
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Grengiols ( Valais German Grängelsch [ˈgræŋːəlʃ] ) is a municipal and civic community in the district of Ostlich Raron and a parish of the Brig deanship in the Swiss canton of Valais .

geography

Grengiols consists of the main settlement and the hamlets of Zen houses, Bädel, Bächer houses, Viertel and Hockmatte as well as Deisch and Nussbaum. The village is located in a channel on the southern slope of the valley and has a distinctive character. It is listed in the federal inventory of places worth protecting in Switzerland of national importance .

Characteristic is the old village square with its gate-like narrowed entrance, which leads to a square surrounded by closed house fronts; from there the street village-like part of the village rises steeply up a narrow channel, at the end of which the church, rectory and school house set a special settlement accent.

The hamlets Zenhäuser and Bädel are to the west, Bächerhaeuser, Viertel and Hockmatte to the east of the main settlement. Particularly noteworthy is the hamlet of Hockmatte, which is one of the most graceful settlements in Valais.

Deisch and Nussbaum are located on the right bank of the Rhone; Both hamlets are mainly newer chalet settlements.

The next larger town Brig is 13 km away. Grengiols is located on the south side of the upper Rhone valley on a slope divided by terraces. Geographically it belongs to the Goms and Aletsch area. The stately village is located on the left slope of the valley, easily accessible between Mörel, Fiesch and Ernen. It is a little off the main road Furka - Sion and four stations of the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn from Brig.

The hamlet of Deisch , which belongs to the municipality of Grengiols, is best known for the “Deischerkehre” spiral tunnel , in which the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn negotiates an incline between the Grengiols and Deisch stop on a cogwheel section . Deisch forms the border between the eastern part of Raron and Goms .

The municipality extends from the Rotten river to 800 m above sea level. M. to the south to the Italian border at 3272 m above sea level. M. (highest point: Helsenhorn). The municipality is part of the Binntal landscape park. The majority of the community area of ​​5849 ha is unproductive (approx. 3000 ha), i. H. wildly romantic and untouched nature of alpine meadows and mountain ranges; just under a percent of the community area is settlement area.

history

Grengiols is first documented in 1052 as Graneirolis ; other early mentions are Graniols (1297) and Greniols (1301). The name goes back to the Latin diminutive (plural) granariolas "small granaries".

On the occasion of the archaeological explorations on the Schlosshubel in 1979, two different cultural layers from the Bronze Age could be identified. Even Gallo-Roman tombs have been found in the municipality, which, together with Roman coins found in a settlement during the time of the Roman Empire indicate.

The first documentary mention is probably the deed of gift dated June 12, 1052 by Bishop Heimo I, in which he gave the rule of Graneiroli to the cathedral chapter of Sion . There is a high probability that these are grengiols. In the High Middle Ages the area was under the sovereignty of Savoy , which was represented by its vassal, the Lord of Grandetsch (Granges near Siders ), and later by the Count of Mörel . In 1799 the village and its church were burned down by Austrian soldiers who were on the run from the French.

population

Population development
year 1799 1850 1900 1950 2000 2010 2012 2014 2016
Residents 313 435 555 565 491 464 466 446 432

Attractions

botany

Grengiols is known for the only tulip species in the world that can only be found in this municipality. It is the Grengjer tulip or, in technical terms, Tulipa grengiolensis . The occurrence of Tulipa grengiolensis is currently limited to the municipal area of ​​Grengiols. Three different forms of this tulip are currently documented: the yellow tulip, the red-yellow tulip and the red tulip.

Grengjer tulip

Sunnutreelleta

Grengiols in the shade on an actually sunny winter day

Due to its location in a narrow mountain valley, Grengiols is not illuminated by the sun from the end of November to mid-January. Since 1998, every third autumn in November, the residents have celebrated the festival of Sunnetreelleta , during which the sun is symbolically bid farewell by being rolled down the village in the form of a three-and-a-half meter wheel ("treellet"). It is a combination of secular and religious festivals.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b 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. 410.
  3. ↑ Sunnetreelleta in the snowstorm. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .