Between mountains

Between mountains
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Valais (VS)
District :	Brig
BFS no. :	6011
Postal code :	3907 Gondo
UN / LOCODE :	CH GON (Gondo)
Coordinates :	652397  /  112729 coordinates: 46 ° 9 '50 "  N , 8 ° 7' 1"  O ; CH1903:  652397  /  112729
Height :	1359  m above sea level M.
Height range :	792–3948 m above sea level M.
Area :	86.03  km²
Residents:	77 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1 inhabitant per km²
Mayor :	Roland Squaratti
Website:	www.gondo.ch
Saint Mark's Church, Gondo
Location of the municipality

Zwischbergen ( Valais German : Zwischbärgu ) is a municipality and a civic community south of the Simplon pass in the district Brig in the canton of Valais . Zwischenbergen is a medieval Walser founding and is a German-speaking community on the south side of the Alps .

The much better known Gondo on the Simplonpassstrasse belongs to the community . The municipality therefore also refers to itself as the municipality of Gondo-Zwischenbergen on its website . However, only the name of the municipality of Zwischenbergen is official .

geography

The Zwischenbergen Valley is surrounded by peaks up to 3500 meters high in the south and north and therefore rightly bears its descriptive name. The church is located at 1359  m above sea level. M. At their passes an old connection path from Brig to Domodossola , the Gondo gorge bypassed. It leads over the Simplon Pass , the village of Simplon , over the Feerberg and Furggu through Zwischenbergen and on over the Swiss-Italian border at the Passo di Monscera into the Valle di Bognanco . The town of Domodossola lies at the end of the valley.

A mule track leads through the Zwischenbergental over the Zwischenbergen Pass to Saas-Almagell in the Saas Valley .

population

Population development
year	1798	1850	1900	1950	2000
Residents	59	43	131	249	78

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Zwischenbergen

Gold mines

Gold mines were already known in Roman times. The mines first flourished between 1660 and 1691 through Kaspar Stockalper . Between 1840 and 1897, the mines were exploited by French companies before they went bankrupt. There are now also guided tours of the old mines.

literature

• Alois Grichting: Zwischenbergen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2014 .

Web links

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

• Official website of the town of Gondo
• The gold mines in Zwischenbergen

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 . 

Zwischenbergental seen from the Seehorn