Realp
Realp of Southwest
Realp is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland.
- 3.1 legislative
- 3.2 executive
Geography
The place is located at the western end of the valley at the foot of the Furka Pass Urseren on the left bank of the Furkareuss. To the municipality together with the village still has several alpine settlements and isolated farmsteads. The most significant among them is Tiefenbach ( 2,106 m above sea level. M. ). Realp has long been the most at risk of avalanches municipality in Switzerland.
Bloss 50 hectares or 0.6 % of the community are built-up area. Of these, seven acres of building area and 41 acres traffic area. More extensive is the agricultural land with 3243 ha or a share of 41.6%. Among them are large Alpine regions. These cover an area of 3116 ha only 117 ha are meadows and farmland. Because of its high location only 182 ha or 2.3% of woods and forests are covered. Unproductive area includes a large part of its territory, namely 4321 ha or 55.4 %. It is almost exclusively to areas without vegetation ( high mountains) or areas with unproductive vegetation ( high alpine vegetation).
Realp bordered to the west by the municipality in the Valais Goms valley, to the north by Göschenen, to the east by Hospental and the Ticinese community Airolo in the south to the tessinerische Bedretto.
Population
The population fluctuated from 1850 to 1990 between 180 to 230 residents. Higher numbers it was only in the years 1941, 1960 and 1980. Between 1980 and 2000 there was a major exodus. The lowest population level was registered in 2000 with merely still 146 people. Highest ever counted population were 308 people in 1980. Since 2000 the number of residents increases again slightly.
Languages
The population speaks a high- Alemannic dialect. The entire population speaks as a daily colloquial German. At the last census in 2000 gave 100 % German as their main language.
Religions - faiths
The population was formerly full member of the Roman Catholic Church. The confessional relations in 2000 can still recognize the original structure. 142 people were Catholic ( 97%). There were also 3% Evangelical Protestant Christians.
Origin - Nationality
From the end of 2005 161 inhabitants were 154 ( 96%) of Swiss nationals. The few immigrants come from Germany and Croatia. At the 2000 census, 145 people (99%) were Swiss citizens; it possessed three persons dual citizenship.
Age structure
The municipality has a high proportion of elderly residents. The proportion of people under twenty years of 14.38 % of the local population is well below the percentage of people in old age (60 years and over: 31.51 %).
At the last census in 2000 showed the following age structure:
Policy
Legislature
The local council is the legislative body. It occurs usually meets twice a year.
Executive
The seven-member council is the executive. He is a part-time working. Current mayor is Armand Simmen.
Economy
In 2005, there were five farms that offered 8 jobs. Industrial and commercial enterprises, there were none, and the service sector employed 63 people in 16 plants ( employment on a full- time equivalent ). The 2000 census showed 6 agricultural and forestry enterprises with 13 employees. In 2001, there were according to census in Realp no industrial and commercial enterprises, while 67 workers were working in 18 services companies. Of the economically active in 2000, 67 people worked Realps 33 ( 49.25 %) in their own community. Overall, the place offered 47 people at work, of which 33 ( 70.21 %) were locals.
The 34 commuters do their work mostly in other municipalities of the canton of Uri. Among 25 people in Andermatt and 4 in Altdorf. There were merely 14 commuters. These came mainly from the other Urseren communities Andermatt and Hospental.
Traffic
The municipality is located on the Furka Pass road. The nearest motorway junction is Göschenen on the A2. Rail Technically, the community is better situated thanks to the Matterhorn -Gotthard Railway and its predecessor, the Furka -Oberalp -Bahn. Near the railway station Realps is the east portal of the Furka base tunnel ( car-train). From Realp from the steam railway runs Furka ( Museum Train ) to Gletsch and upper forest.
History
The name comes from the Alpine Lombard riva alpa = settlement at Weissenbach. First mention on February 7, 1363rd The name is mentioned in the 6th century in the writings of the Abbey of Saint -Maurice in the Valais. On his second trip to Switzerland reached Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on November 12, 1779, " when night » the village Realp to climb from there to the St. Gotthard, where he stayed three nights at the Capuchins.
Gallery
Realp, center with Roman Catholic. Church and Hotel « Post»
Loading station Realp