Bettmeralp
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Bettmeralp is a municipality in the district of Raron in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Betten and Martisberg merged into the municipality of Bettmeralp. Before the merger, Bettmeralp was the name of a village and ski resort in Betten.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Bettmeralp
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Bettmeralp mit Bettmerhorn.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Bettmeralp village and Bettmerhorn
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Betten COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Betten Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Valais
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-VS
- Swiss town.district
- Raron
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3991 & 3994
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 6205
- Swiss town.area
- 29.36
- Swiss town.elevation
- 1970
- Swiss town.population
- 440
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2011
- Swiss town.website
- gemeinde.bettmeralp.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Fiesch, Fieschertal, Filet, Grengiols, Lax, Martisberg, Naters, Riederalp
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Bettmeralp
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Östlich Raron District
- Population
- 462
- Area
- 28.79
- Elevation
- 1948
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- gemeinde.bettmeralp.ch
- Image
- Bettmeralp mit Bettmerhorn.jpg
- Licence plate code
- VS
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- Commons category
- Bettmeralp VS
- inception
- 2014-01-01
- mountain range
- Bernese Alps
- replaces
- Martisberg
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/6205
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Bettmeralp village
- History
- Geography
- Demographics
- Historic population
- Sights
- Skilift system
- Panorama
- References
- External links
Bettmeralp is a municipality in the district of Raron in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Betten and Martisberg merged into the municipality of Bettmeralp. Before the merger, Bettmeralp was the name of a village and ski resort in Betten.
==Bettmeralp village== thumb|left|Above Bettmeralp Bettmeralp is a car free village which can be reached by cable car from the Bettmeralp train station (Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn). From there another cable car leads near to the summit of Bettmerhorn, which lies directly above the Aletsch Glacier. Bettmersee is located above the village at 2006 m.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bettmeralp” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (4)
On the map
2 mapped locations