Ulrichen

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Valais (VS)

District :

Goms

Municipal municipality :

Obergoms

Postal code :

3988

former BFS no. :

6071

Coordinates :

666 121 / 150 216 coordinates: 46 ° 30 '0 " N , 8 ° 18' 0" O ; CH1903: six hundred sixty-six thousand one hundred twenty-one / 150 216

Height :

1346 m above sea level M.

Area :

44.4 km²

Residents:

219 (December 31, 2007)

Population density :

5 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.ulrichen.ch

Ulrichen

map

Parish before the merger on December 31, 2008

Ulrichen ( Valaisian German : Üerliche [ˈyərlɪχə] ) is a village in the Valais municipality of Obergoms and a parish in the deanery of Ernen .

Geography, place name and dialect

From Ulrichen it goes through the Äginatal up to the Nufenenpass in the canton of Ticino . An old mule track goes past the Griessee over the Griespass to Italy .

The locals pronounce the place name as extraneous . The -ingen name, first mentioned in 1235 in the spelling Vlrighingen , goes back to an Alemannic clan elder named Uodalrīch (not from St. Ulrich) and means "with the people, with the clan of Uodalrich". The Latinized form Ulringa is usually found in the parish registers .

As in many Valais dialects, in Ulrichen the ch is pronounced in Chind, for example, as a soft I- sound [ç] and not as a hard [χ] as is otherwise common in Swiss German.

history

In 1211 the battle of Ulrichen took place here .

The Ulrichen military airfield was operated until 1999 .

On November 25, 2007, a referendum approved a merger of the three previously independent Obergommer municipalities of Ulrichen, Obergesteln and Oberwald . The new municipality of Obergoms has existed since January 1st, 2009.

population

Population development
year	1798	1850	1900	1950	2000	2007
Residents	36	247	233	248	221	219

Personalities

Karin Möbes (* 1968), cyclist, duathlete and triathlete

Attractions

District "Im Loch"
Granite cross with the inscription "Den Helden von Ulrichen"

literature

Alois Grichting: Ulrichen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2017 .
Walter Ruppen: Ulrichen . In: Society for Swiss Art History (Hrsg.): Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz (= vol. 64 ). Das Obergoms vol. 1. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1976, ISBN 3-7643-0728-5 , p. 214-235 .

Web links

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

Ulrichen on the ETHorama platform
Website of the municipality of Obergoms
Annual tournament in honor of Sepp Blatter

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Lexicon of Swiss Community Names , ed. from the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol, Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 896.

↑ Ägenetal on ETHorama

^ Jean Gremaud: Documents relatifs à l'histoire du Valais, Volumes I – VII, Lausanne 1875–1889, here: Volume I, p. 531.

^ Jean Gremaud: Documents relatifs à l'histoire du Valais, Volumes I – VII, Lausanne 1875–1889, here: Volume V, p. 117.

[lsg-1] Lexicon of Swiss Community Names , ed. from the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol, Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 896.

[2] Ägenetal on ETHorama

[3] Jean Gremaud: Documents relatifs à l'histoire du Valais, Volumes I – VII, Lausanne 1875–1889, here: Volume I, p. 531.

[4] Jean Gremaud: Documents relatifs à l'histoire du Valais, Volumes I – VII, Lausanne 1875–1889, here: Volume V, p. 117.