Brig-Glis

The communities Brig and Naters before Glishorn

Brig is a municipality in the district of Brig in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. They were elected to the Alpine town of the year 2008.

Geography

Brig- Glis is located between the northern and the southern Bernese Alps Valais Alps, at the confluence of Saltina into the Rhone. The municipal area extends from the valley floor ( 678 m above sea level. M. ) up to the belonging to the group Weissmies Spitzhorli ( 2,737 m above sea level. M. ), the west-northwest of the Simplon Pass rises.

By Brig performs as part of the European Route 62, the sections developed as Highway 9 Hauptstrasse 9, and then runs from the municipality to the south up to the Simplon Pass to Italy. From this road branches in the western municipality from the main road 19, which runs north-eastwards over the Furka Pass in the Rhine valley in the canton of Grisons. By Brig leads the Glacier Express route ( St. Moritz -Zermatt ) and from the station in the direction of Italy, the Simplon tunnel.

Brig- Glis consists of Brig Glis ( with the hamlet of mountain goats) and Brigerbad. The neighboring municipalities in the district of Brig are Naters, terms, Ried-Brig and the Simplon and the District of Visp Lalden Visp and Visperterminen.

History

The municipality Brig was on 1 January 1973 from the merger of the former municipalities Brig Glis ( with the hamlet of mountain goats) and Brigerbad. Since then her face has evolved strengthens by the brisk construction activity, particularly in the district of Glis. In the Middle Ages led the Saltina regularly flood, which repeatedly led to devastating floods. Finally, the Saltina 1993 burst its banks, as the vast quantities of water accumulated on the Saltinabrücke and flooded the city center to the station. The sediment piled up at the train station up to 3 m high. The problem was alleviated in 1997 with the commissioning of a lift bridge. The system proved itself during flood 2000.

Policy

Since the merger of 1973, the council was composed of eleven members. The number of seats was taken over by the former municipality Brig. In the municipal elections of 2004 towards the council was reduced to seven members.

In the current legislature (2012-2016) following parties are represented in the local council: CSP ( 1 seat), CVP (1 seats), the FDP ( 1 seat), SP ( 1 seat) and SVP / FDP (3 seats).

Coat of arms

Description: A red shield with three goldgebordetes pile made ​​golden six -pointed stars as a breast plate rests on a rotbewehrten and crowned black eagle with red arrow tail on a gold shield.

Economy

Brig is the center of the German speaking part of the Upper Valais. This role was the former village of Brig by the construction of the Simplon Tunnel, which was inaugurated in 1906 as a connection to the European rail network. This Brig became a focal point for service companies, from the freight forwarder at the beginning of the 20th century through to the present Brig- Blis located " virtual station " of the SBB, a call center from which provides information worldwide electronic communication channels and Billete issued be.

About 80 % of the population work in the service sector. The industry consists only of a larger operation, which is domiciled in chamois Société Suisse des Explosifs (SSE ), a former explosives factory, which is a diversified chemical company today.

Culture

Important institutions are the cellar Theatre and the Knights' Hall in the Stockalper castle and the green forest hall in the library Wallis. Also in the Simplonhalle ( Convention Center ) events are staged regularly.