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The title of this article is ambiguous. For the Estonian writer see Enn Kippel .

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State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Valais (VS)
District :	West Raron
BFS no. :	6197
Postal code :	3917
Coordinates :	625 633  /  138 822 coordinates: 46 ° 24 '1 "  N , 7 ° 46' 19"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred and thirty-three  /  one hundred thirty-eight thousand eight hundred twenty-two
Height :	1376  m above sea level M.
Height range :	1261–3288 m above sea level M.
Area :	11.68  km²
Residents:	325 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	28 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.kippel.ch
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Location of the municipality

Kippel (in walliser German local dialect: Chiipel [ɕiːpəl] ) is a Munizipalgemeinde and a Burgergemeinde the district West Raron and a Parish of Dekanats Raron in the German part of the Swiss Canton Wallis .

Kippel is the main town in the Lötschental .

population

Population development
year	1802	1850	1900	1950	2000	2010	2012	2014	2016
Residents	115	168	248	363	368	375	367	354	340

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Kippel

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  Old wooden houses

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  Cemetery, ossuary and chapel from 1556

literature

• Werner Bellwald: Kippel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2008 .

Web links

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

• Kippel on the ETHorama platform
• Official website of the municipality of Kippel

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. ↑ In connection with the Lexikon der Schweizerischen Gemeindeamen (LSG), page 481, with the Linguistic Atlas of German Switzerland (SDS), Volume II 94. The reproduction of the initials as [χ] (a hard, on the palate formed «Swiss German» / ch / ), as carried out by the LSG, does not apply to the Lötschental dialect according to the SDS, according to which the local dialectal initial / ch / is formed on Zahndamm.