Raron
Raron | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Valais (VS) |
District : | West Raron |
BFS no. : | 6199 |
Postal code : | 3942 |
UN / LOCODE : | CH RRN |
Coordinates : | 627 837 / 128 797 |
Height : | 638 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 631–3931 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 30.37 km² |
Residents: | 1945 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 64 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | www.raron.ch |
Raron from the castle hill |
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Location of the municipality | |
Raron ( Valais German older Arráru [ɐ'rːɑrʊ, ɐ'rːɑːrʊ] , younger Raru ['rɑːrʊ] , French Rarogne ) is a political municipality and the capital of the district of West-Raron in the Swiss canton of Valais . The place has a civic community of the same name with a civic council and at the same time forms a Catholic parish of the Raron deanery .
geography
In Raron there is a striking castle hill with a late medieval church, which was built by Ulrich Ruffiner around 1500 .
The southern tunnel portals of the Lötschberg base tunnel are located in Raron . The Bietschbach crosses the Bietschtalbrücke , which lies on the Raron municipality .
population
Population development | |||||||||
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year | 1800 approx. | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 |
Residents | 360 | 411 | 553 | 969 | 1672 | 1809 | 1865 | 1914 | 1936 |
traffic
Regional trains on the Brig - Sion line stop in Raron (every half hour on weekdays) . On the airfield Raron , which until 1995 also military airfield with underground hangar was a base of the helicopter mountain rescue squadron Air Zermatt .
Attractions
- late Gothic church of St. Roman (built 1512–1518) with an old rectory
- modern rock church St. Michael (1974), in the rock under the old church
Immediately next to the old church is the grave of the writer and poet Rainer Maria Rilke . Marcel Beyer wrote the essay Der Tag von Raron about Helmut Kohl's visit to the Rilke grave on April 14, 1989 .
The oldest mailbox in Switzerland can be found on the door of the Maxenhaus . It comes from the Napoleonic era , when the Valais belonged to the French Empire .
Personalities
- Ulrich Ruffiner (around 1480–1549 / 1556), master builder
- Johann Hildebrand Roten (1722–1760), Bishop of Sitten (1752–1760)
- Christian Gattlen (1777–1866), military, entrepreneur and politician
- Moritz Fabian Roten (1783–1843), Bishop of Sitten (1830–1843)
- Leo Luzian von Roten (1824–1898), State Councilor (1876–1897)
- Hans Anton von Roten (1826–1895), National Councilor (1866–1895)
- Heinrich von Roten (1856–1916), Council of States (1906–1916)
- Hans Anton von Roten (1907–1993), rector and historian
- Ernst von Roten (1914–1999), State Councilor (1958–1973)
- Peter von Roten (1916–1991), National Councilor (1948–1951)
- Henri von Roten (* 1947), State Chancellor (1988–2010)
- Erich Burgener (* 1951), soccer player
- Georges Bregy (* 1958), soccer player and soccer coach
gallery
literature
- Anton Riva: Raron. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2011 .
- Anton Riva: Raron (Zenden, district). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2017 .
- Andreas Tscherrig: Sankt German. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2011 .
- Walter Ruppen: St. German VS. Church and village. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 405). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1987, ISBN 978-3-85782-405-0 .
Web links
- Raron on the ETHorama platform
- Official website of the municipality of Raron
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 .
- ↑ According to the material from the Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland and the Wenker set completed on site .
- ↑ According to the lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 727.
- ↑ Bietschbach on ETHorama
- ↑ The century weeping blind. Berlin 2017. pp. 53–88.