Munster VS

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VS is the abbreviation for the canton of Valais in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Münster (disambiguation) . ff
Muenster
Munster coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ValaisCanton of Valais Valais (VS)
District : Gomsw
Municipal municipality : Gomsi2
Postal code : 3985
former BFS no. : 6063
Coordinates : 663 343  /  148 734 coordinates: 46 ° 29 '13 "  N , 8 ° 15' 49"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and sixty-three thousand three hundred forty-three  /  148 734
Height : 1390  m above sea level M.
Area : 38.6  km²
Residents: 441 (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 11 inhabitants per km²
Mayor : Gerhard Kiechler
Website: www.gemeinde-goms.ch
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Parish before the merger on October 1, 2004

Münster ( Valais German [ minʃtər ]) is a since 2017. Munizipalgemeinde Goms belongs to the village in the district of Goms and a parish of the deanery Ernen in the German-speaking part of the Swiss canton of Valais .

geography

The village lies at an altitude of 1356 m above sea level. M. in the upper Goms, on the right bank of the Rhone , here called Rotten . The Minstigerbach flows through the middle of the village.

history

Münster was first mentioned in a document in 1221 as a model building . The name is later found in the form of Monasterium, which means "Hermitage, Koster, (parish) church". In the specific Goms case, the place is called that because its church was the only parish church in Obergoms for a long time. The original name of the place was, however, the Romanesque Gomes, which is still preserved today as the valley name Goms .

In 1309 Münster, as the name has been handed down since then, appeared as an independent municipality and participated in the transport of goods over the Alpine passes Furka , Grimsel , Gries and Nufenen . From the 14th to the 16th century there were clashes with the village of Ernen for dominance in Zenden Goms, a small independent republic. In 1799 the independence and economic growth of the place ended as a result of the invasion of the French army. Together with the whole of Valais, Münster joined Switzerland in 1803 with the Napoleonic mediation act .

On January 1, 2005, the municipalities of Geschinen and Münster merged, creating the municipality of Münster-Geschinen , which in turn was merged into the municipality of Goms in 2017. Münster is considered the capital of the upper Goms.

population

Population development
year 1802 1850 1900 1950 2000 2016
Residents 381 411 417 470 455 441

Attractions

Old houses on Furkastrasse in Munster VS
Wooden houses in Münster / View 2 (2008)

Münster has a townscape of national importance. The type of numerous old wooden houses is called « Gommerhäuser » after the high valley of Goms . These are houses made of larch wood, so-called knitted structures , which were built as single-purpose buildings, i.e. H. There was one house each for living, storage or livestock farming. Dendrochronological studies have shown that the two oldest houses date from 1369 (the oldest known wooden house in Valais) and 1390. The granaries were placed on stakes which were fitted with transverse stone slabs to protect them from rodents, the mouse slabs .

In the town of Münster are the

  • Marienkirche (parish church) from the 13th century with later extensions such as the choir from 1491 and a beautiful late Gothic high altar, which comes from the workshop of the Lucerne sculptor Jörg Keller,
  • the Church of St. Peter, also from the 13th century; renewed several times in the 17th, 19th and 21st centuries,

as well as the chapels

  • St. Antonius, St. Margarethe, St. Sebastian and St. Katharina .

There is a rural show bakery in the village.

Sport and tourism

Since the 1960s there have been glider flying enthusiasts in Münster who operate the former Münster VS military airfield in Münster and who merged to form the Münster Airfield Cooperative on March 31, 2001 ; gliding events are organized in the summer months.

With a 9-hole golf course in the area, the Golf Source du Rhône, with hiking and biking trails, river rafting and a recreation and leisure facility on the Rotten, the place attracts tourists. In Obergoms there are 100 km of cross-country trails with extra tracks for skating and classic. In winter there is also a small ski lift that connects the ski area with that of Geschinen.

Personalities

  • Hildebrand von Riedmatten (≈1530–1604), Bishop of Sitten (1565–1604)
  • Adrian (II.) Von Riedmatten (≈1550–1613), nephew of Hildebrand, Bishop of Sitten (1604–13)
  • Adrian (III.) Von Riedmatten (1610–1646), Bishop of Sitten (1640–46)
  • Adrian (IV.) Von Riedmatten (1613–1672), Bishop of Sitten (1646–72)
  • Adrian (V.) von Riedmatten (1641–1701), nephew of Adrian (III.), Bishop of Sitten (1672–1701)
  • Franz Joseph Lagger (1799–1871), doctor, botanist
  • Edzard Schaper (1908–1984), German writer, honorary citizen (1960)
  • Albert Imsand (1911–2001), Grand Councilor (1957–77), Grand Councilor (1972–73)
  • Oskar Lagger (1934–2019), composer and conductor
  • Benno Werlen (* 1952), social geographer
  • Martina Gmür (* 1979), artist


  • Goms barn

  • Parish church

  • Margaret Chapel

  • Altar in the Margaret Chapel

literature

Web links

Commons : Münster-Geschinen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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 629.
  2. ↑ Stefan Sonderegger : The new lexicon of Swiss community names: useful and an occasion for lively discussions . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 21, 2005.
  3. ↑ List of sites of national importance. On: bak.admin.ch. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ Kulturlandschaft Münster-Geschinen (Hrsg.): Münster-Geschinen: Buildings and history. Münster-Geschinen 2019, ISBN 978-3-033-07185-8 , pp. 81–91.
  5. ↑ Benno mother, Klara Schilliger, Valerian Maly: The high altar in the parish church of Münster im Goms (= Swiss art guide. No. 846, series 85). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2009, ISBN 978-3-85782-846-1 .
  6. ↑ Sarah Gigandet-Imsand: Perspectives of a theological aesthetics were responsible: the example of the high altar in the parish church of Munster, in Valais (= Studia Oecumenica Friburgensia . No. 82). Münster: Aschendorff Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-402-12205-1 .
  7. ↑ Flugplatzgenossenschaft FGM sponsorship. (No longer available online.) Flugplatzmuenster.ch, archived from the original on October 5, 2013 ; Retrieved December 11, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot /flugplatzmuenster.ch
  8. ↑ Hildebrand von Riedmatten is grandson of Adrian (I) von Riedmatten (1478–1548), Bishop of Sitten (1529–1548)