Niederwald VS

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

Niederwald

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Valais (VS)

District :

Goms

Municipal municipality :

Goms

Postal code :

3989

former BFS no. :

6064

Coordinates :

657 516 / 142 902 coordinates: 46 ° 26 '6 " N , 8 ° 11' 13" O ; CH1903: 657,516 / 142 902

Height :

1251 m above sea level M.

Area :

4.7 km²

Residents:

45 (December 31, 2016)

Population density :

10 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.gemeinde-goms.ch

Niederwald

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2017

Niederwald ( Valais German : Niderwaud [ˌnɪdərˈβɑːu̯t] ) is a village in the municipality of Goms in the Goms district of the Swiss canton of Valais . At the same time, it forms a parish that belongs to the Deanery of Ernen .

history

César Ritz , the founder of the luxury hotels Ritz, was born in Niederwald in 1850. In 1898 he was able to open the Hotel Ritz in Paris as the first of his luxury hotels . Later the Hotel Ritz in London and other hotels in other cities followed. He has found his final resting place in Niederwald with his wife and son.

On January 1, 2017 Niederwald merged with the communities of Blitzingen , Grafschaft , Münster-Geschinen and Reckingen-Gluringen to form the new community of Goms.

population

Population development
year	1850	1900	1950	2000	2010	2012	2014	2016
Residents	123	123	145	70	47	49	45	45

Attractions

The parish church of St. Theodul from 1666, the village square with the Caesar-Ritz fountain and the old upper summer houses are well worth seeing .

At the village square
Entrance to the village church of St. Theodul
Village church cemetery
St. Theodul, interior
Birthplace of Caesar Ritz
View above Niederwald
Caesar Ritz fountain
Fountain figure by Hans Loretan

literature

Walter Ruppen: Niederwald. In: Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz 67, Untergoms 2. Birkhäuser, Basel 1979, ISBN 3-7643-1080-4 , pp. 258–289.
Walter Ruppen: The settlements of the Mittelgoms. Niederwald and Blitzingen VS (= Swiss Art Guide, No. 249). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1978, ISBN 978-3-85782-249-0 .
Robert Walpen: Niederwald. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2017 .

Web links

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

Niederwald VS on the ETHorama platform
Swiss homeland security: Gon-Hüs in Niederwald VS with old Giltstein stove (PDF)

Individual evidence

^ Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland , Volume V 1b.

[1] Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland , Volume V 1b.