Grengiols

Grengiols

Grengiols (probably from Latin Granariolas, " small granary ") is a municipality in the district of East Raron the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Grengiols consists of the main settlements and hamlets Zenhäusern, Bädel, Bächerhäusern, district and Hock mat and Deisch and walnut. The village lies in a trough of southern Talhangs and has a local picture of marked individuality to.

It is characteristic of the old village square with its torartig narrowed entrance leading to a space surrounded by houses closed fronts court; the road village -like part of the village a narrow channel from there rises steeply up, put on their endpoint church, rectory and school house a special settlement accent.

The hamlet Zenhäusern and Bädel lie west, Bächerhäusern, district and Hock mat east of the main settlement. Particularly noteworthy is the hamlet Hock mat, one of the most charming villages of the Valais.

Deisch and walnut right bank of the Rhone are located; in both hamlets are mainly to newer chalet settlements.

Geography

The nearest major town Brig is 13 km away. Grengiols is located on the south side of the upper Rhone valley on a subdivided by terrain slope terraces. Geographically, it is part of Goms and the Aletsch area. The handsome village is situated on the valley slopes, easily reachable between Morel, Fiesch and appointment.

It is a little off the main road Furka - Sion and five stations of the Matterhorn -Gotthard -Bahn from Brig.

The part of the municipality Grengiols hamlet Deisch is mainly due to the helical tunnel " Deischerkehre " known in the Matterhorn -Gotthard -Bahn overcome a slope between the breakpoint and Grengiols Deisch on a gear portion.

Deisch forms the border between the Eastern District Raron and Goms.

The municipal area stretches from the river Rotten to 800 m above sea. St on the south to the Italian border to 3272 m above sea level. M. (highest point Helsenhorn ). The municipality is part of the landscape park Binn. The majority of the municipal area of 5849 ha is unproductive area (about 3000 ha), so romantic and unspoiled nature of alpine pastures and mountain ranges. Just under one percent of the surface area of ​​settlement.

History

At the archaeological soundings in 1979 on the Schlosshubel were two different layers of culture from the Bronze Age are found. Also Gallo- Roman tombs have been found which indicate together with Roman coin finds on a settlement during the Roman Empire in the municipality.

The first mention is probably the deed of gift dated 12 June 1052 of Bishop Heimo I, in which he gave to the cathedral chapter of Sion the rule Graneirolis. This can be almost just about Grengiols. What the word origin can be explained, means after the Latin word Granariolas, small granary. In the High Middle Ages was the territory of the supremacy of Savoy. That by his vassals, the lords of Grande sealed ( Granges ), and was later represented by the Counts of Morel. In 1799 the town was burned down with its church of Austrian soldiers who were on the run from the French.

Attractions

Botany

Grengiols is known for the world's only tulip, which only occurs in this community, these are the Grengjer Tulip or in technical language Tulipa grengiolensis. The occurrence of Tulipa grengiolensis currently limited only to the municipality of Grengiols.

Sunnutreelleta

Due to its location in a narrow mountain valley Grengiols is not illuminated for a period of over a month towards the end of the sun. Since 1998, the inhabitants celebrate every third autumn in November the festival of Sunnetreelleta in which the sun is symbolically adopted in which it is rolled down the village in the form of a three and a half meters wide wheel.