Ried-Mörel

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Valais (VS)

District :

East of Raron

Municipal municipality :

Riederalp

Postal code :

3986

Coordinates :

645 846 / 134220 coordinates: 46 ° 21 '28 " N , 8 ° 2' 3" O ; CH1903: six hundred and forty-five thousand eight hundred and forty-six / 134220

Height :

1168 m above sea level M.

map

Parish before the merger on November 1, 2003

Riederfurka, Villa Cassel (1953)

Ried-Mörel is a village and a civic community with a civic council in the Ostlich Raron district and a parish of the Brig dean's office in the Swiss canton of Valais . It was a separate political municipality until November 1st, 2003 when it merged with Goppisberg and Greich to form the municipality of Riederalp .

history

Mancapan Castle, seat of the Counts of Mörel, was destroyed in 1260 by Count Peter II of Savoy and can still be seen as a ruin. Suonen , first mentioned in 1385, supplied the village with water from the Aletsch Glacier , which has been conducted through the Riederhorn in a three-kilometer tunnel since 1946. Until after the Second World War , the community was dominated by agriculture and cattle breeding, while in 2000 58% of the population worked in tourism.

population

Population development
year	1850	1900	1950	2000
Residents	302	333	292	304

literature

Anton Riva: Ried-Mörel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .