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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Valais (VS) |
District : | Sierre |
BFS no. : | 6238 |
Postal code : | 3979 |
UN / LOCODE : | CH GNE |
Coordinates : | 601560 / 122 403 |
Height : | 513 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 496–2692 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 20.72 km² |
Residents: | 2414 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 117 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | www.grone.ch |
The Pouta-Fontana moorland |
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Grône (dt. Outdated green ) is a political municipality and a civil parish in the district of Sierre and a parish of the dean's office in the French-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland .
geography
The municipality of Grône is located in the upper part of the Lower Valais south of Sierre on the southern side of the Rhone Valley. In the southwest, the municipality extends to the banks of the Rhone . In the south-west of the municipality is the protected moorland Pouta-Fontana.
The municipality consists of the village of Grône and the hamlets of Daillet, Erdesson, Itravers, La Coutoulaz, Le Coujon, Loye and Pramagnon as well as numerous individual farms. The neighboring communities of Grône are in the north of Sierre , in the east Chalais , in the south-east Anniviers , in the south and south-west Mont-Noble , in the west the canton capital Sion and in the north-west Saint-Léonard .
population
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year | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2913 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
Residents | 348 | 741 | 1242 | 1866 | 2206 | 2253 | 2275 | 2253 | 2310 | 2311 | 2415 |
Sons and daughters of the church
- Yves Allegro (* 1978), tennis player
Attractions
literature
- Bernard Monnet: Grône. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2006 .
Web links
- Grône on the ETHorama platform
- Official website of the municipality of Grône
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .