Raron

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Raron
Raron Coat of Arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ValaisCanton of Valais Valais (VS)
District : West Raronw
BFS no. : 6199i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 3942
UN / LOCODE : CH RRN
Coordinates : 627 837  /  128 797 coordinates: 46 ° 18 '36 "  N , 7 ° 48' 0"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven  /  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

Raron from the castle hill
Location of the municipality
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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

Aerial photo (1955)

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
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

  • Castle Church

  • Rock church

  • Rilke's grave

  • Maxenhaus

  • Gattlenhaus in the village center

  • Southern portal of the railway alpine transit

  • Altar of St. Joseph's Chapel

  • Cable car to Unterbäch

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ According to the material from the Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland and the Wenker set completed on site .
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Bietschbach on ETHorama
  5. ↑ The century weeping blind. Berlin 2017. pp. 53–88.