Mouth VS

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

mouth

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Valais (VS)

District :

Brig

Municipal municipality :

Naters

Postal code :

3903

former BFS no. :

6006

Coordinates :

639 387 / 129601 coordinates: 46 ° 19 '0 " N , 7 ° 57' 0" O ; CH1903: six hundred thirty-nine thousand three hundred and eighty-seven / 129601

Height :

1188 m above sea level M.

Area :

40.2 km²

Residents:

544 (December 31, 2012)

Population density :

14 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.mund.ch

map

Parish before the merger on December 31, 2012

Mund , in the Valais German local dialect ['munːd] , is a district of the municipality of Naters in the Brig district in the German-speaking part of the Swiss canton of Valais . It also forms a parish of the Brig dean's office . The mountain village is around five hundred meters above the Rhone on the southern slope of the Lötschberg , between Visp and Brig-Glis .

On January 1, 2013 , the previously independent political municipality merged with the municipality of Birgisch to form the new municipality of Naters.

Mouth saffron

Besides Oberstammheim, Mund is the only place in Switzerland where the aromatic plant saffron is grown and cultivated. Saffron was probably brought to the village in the 15th century by local mercenaries who were doing military service abroad. The oldest written evidence of Munder saffron comes from the 19th century. The saffron guild has been promoting the cultivation of the spice plant in Mund since 1979 , monitoring the harvest and promoting the saffron village of Mund.

history

A typical Valais Spycher from mouth

Mund was first mentioned in writing in 1259 (Petro de hengart de munt) and was then part of the parish of Naters. A coat of arms from Mund, which bears the number 1212 and is reminiscent of a legendary battle above Munds, is older. At that time , the place was part of the county of Valais , which had belonged to the Bishop of Sion since 999 and was mostly given as a fief to nobles from the region.

In 1348 a chapel was built in Mund, probably to bury the plague dead next to it. In 1727, Mund separated from the mother parish of Naters after a baroque-style church had been built in place of the previous chapel in 1721. From 1962 to 1964 the present church was built on the same site; of the first church only the tower remains. In 2006 the church was reopened after asbestos-related renovations.

The place had been part of the Zehnden Naters since 1355 . Their position, independent of the nobility, was not recognized until 1420. In 1427, the independent municipality of Mund was ransomed from the Lords of Raron , who had obtained control of Mund through marriage. The Zehntenstadel, which today houses the Safran Museum, also dates from this time .

The place name goes back to the Franco-Provencal mont, munt , which in turn comes from the Latin mons, accusative montem "mountain".

population

Population development
year	1811	1850	1900	1950	2000	2012
Residents	294	442	546	646	574	544

Attractions

photos

Restaurant and village shop
St. Jakob Church and Schoolhouse
Saffron flower
Saffron Museum

literature

Philipp Kalbermatter: mouth. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2017 .

Web links

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

Mund VS on the ETHorama platform
Official website of mouth

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie of the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 628.
↑ Tages-Anzeiger of October 23, 2018

[lsg-1] Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie of the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 628.

[2] Tages-Anzeiger of October 23, 2018