Göschenen
Sign in to saveGöschenen (, ) is a village and municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. It sits at the northern end of the Gotthard tunnel. The Göschenen riots (1875) saw Urner troops opening fire on Italian miners demonstrating for better working conditions and wages on the tunnel's construction site.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Göschenen
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Göschenen.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- village
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Göschenen-coat of arms.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Göschenen Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Uri
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-UR
- Swiss town.district
- n.a.
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6487
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1208
- Swiss town.area
- 104.31
- Swiss town.elevation
- 1111
- Swiss town.website
- www.goeschenen.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Andermatt, Gadmen (BE), Gurtnellen, Hospental, Oberwald (VS), Realp, Wassen
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Göschenen (, ) is a village and municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. It sits at the northern end of the Gotthard tunnel. The Göschenen riots (1875) saw Urner troops opening fire on Italian miners demonstrating for better working conditions and wages on the tunnel's construction site.
==Name== Göschenen is first mentioned in 1280 as Gesschenden. The name is from Rumantsch *cascina (modern caschigna) "alpine hut", from Latin capsum "corral", but influenced by the word for cheese, cascio. The e in the first syllable is due to Germanic i-umlaut, changed to ö in modern spelling is a hypercorrection based on the phonology of the dialect of Uri.