Bellwald
Sign in to saveBellwald is a municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Bellwald
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Bellwald.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Bellwald COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Bellwald Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Valais
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-VS
- Swiss town.district
- Goms
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3997
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 6052
- Swiss town.area
- 13.7
- Swiss town.elevation
- 1560
- Swiss town.population
- 452
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2002
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2002
- Swiss town.website
- www.bellwald.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Martin Bittel
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Blitzingen, Ernen, Fiesch, Fieschertal, Grafschaft, Niederwald
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Sights
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Education
- References
- External links
Bellwald is a municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
==History== thumb|Historic aerial photograph by Werner Friedli from 1955 Bellwald was first used to refer to the nearby mountain 1273 Beliwalt and 1293 Belwalt. The name then came to mean the main village below the mountain. The village was first mentioned in 1374 as Zblattun.