Obergesteln
Obergesteln is a village in the municipality of Obergoms in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Obergesteln was an independent municipality until January 1, 2009, when it merged with Oberwald and Ulrichen to form the municipality Obergoms.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 195 residents
- Description: village and former municipality in Obergoms in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Obergestelen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Martin of Tours and Obergesteln railway station.
Obergesteln railway station
Railway stop
Photo: Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Obergesteln railway station, is a railway station in the locality of Obergesteln, within the municipality of Obergoms, in the Swiss canton of Valais. It is an intermediate stop and a request stop on the 1,000 mm metre gauge Furka Oberalp line of the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn and is served by local trains only.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ulrichen and Ulrichen Airport.
Ulrichen
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ulrichen is a village in the municipality of Obergoms in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The population was 219. Ulrichen was an independent municipality until January 1, 2009, when it merged with Oberwald and Obergesteln to form the municipality Obergoms.
Oberwald
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oberwald is a village in the municipality of Obergoms in Goms District in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is situated at an elevation of 1,377 m and had a population of 277 in December 2007. Oberwald is situated 3 km northeast of Obergesteln.
Obergesteln
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Obergoms, Goms District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.51378° or 46° 30′ 50″ northLongitude
8.32487° or 8° 19′ 30″ eastPopulation
195Elevation
1,360 metres (4,462 feet)Open location code
8FRCG87F+GWOpenStreetMap ID
node 118314095OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2659386Wikidata ID
Q662541
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Western Panjabi—“Obergesteln” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Обергестелн”
- Cebuano: “Obergesteln”
- Dutch: “Obergesteln”
- French: “Obergesteln”
- German: “Obergesteln”
- Irish: “Obergesteln”
- Italian: “Obergesteln”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Obergesteln”
- Piemontese: “Obergesteln”
- Portuguese: “Obergesteln”
- Romansh: “Obergesteln”
- Russian: “Обергештельн”
- Spanish: “Obergesteln”
- Swedish: “Obergesteln”
- Turkish: “Obergesteln”
- Upper Sorbian: “Obergesteln”
- Volapük: “Obergesteln”
- Western Panjabi: “اوبرگسٹلن”
- “Obergesteln”
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