Vissoie

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Vissoie
Vissoie Coat of Arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ValaisCanton of Valais Valais (VS)
District : Sierrew
Municipal municipality : Anniviersi2
Postal code : 3961
former BFS no. : 6251
Coordinates : 611464  /  118306 coordinates: 46 ° 12 '58 "  N , 7 ° 35' 14"  O ; CH1903:  611464  /  118306
Height : 1202  m above sea level M.
Area : 1.5  km²
Residents: 479 (December 31, 2008)
Population density : 319 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.vissoie.ch
Vissoie in the Val d'Anniviers

Vissoie in the Val d'Anniviers
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Vissoie ( German formerly Esso ) is a parish of the Deanery of Sierre and a civic parish with a civic council of the district of Sierre and was a political municipality in the Val d'Anniviers of the canton of Valais in Switzerland until December 31, 2008 .

Aerial photo (1970)

On January 1, 2009, Vissoie merged with the other five municipalities in the valley ( Ayer , Chandolin , Grimentz , Saint-Jean and Saint-Luc ) to form the municipality of Anniviers .

population

Population development
year 1798 1910 1950 2000 2008
Residents 165 309 310 451 479

Attractions

post Office

In 1956 the new post office came to the north entrance of the village center for reasons of space and traffic

In the mid-19th century, a postal service was set up in Val d'Anniviers to overcome its geographical isolation. At that time, a wooden building in the village of Vissoie served as a mailbox. When a fire destroyed this depot in 1890, the post office was initially moved to a building on Kirchplatz and in 1907 it was housed on the ground floor of the telephone exchange. In 1922, a new post office was opened on the Place de la Tour on the ground floor of the apartment of Émilie Crettaz, the postmaster at the time. Despite the central location, the traffic obstructions there make another relocation necessary. After more than three decades of waiting and discussions with the PTT General Directorate , the new PTT building was erected and inaugurated on a plot of land belonging to the parish of Vissoie in October 1954. In the same month, a new automatic switchboard will also be opened there. Until 1986, the apartment on the upper floor of the post office was rented to the Crettaz family, who from 1918 had run the post office in Vissoie for several generations. Since then it has served as a private holiday home. The post office continues to exist and Vissoie is one of the highest year-round inhabited villages in Switzerland.

Parish before the merger on December 31, 2008

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Post structures - PTT archive. Retrieved September 1, 2019 .