Niederwald
Niederwald is a former municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Niederwald, Blitzingen, Grafschaft, Münster-Geschinen and Reckingen-Gluringen merged into the new municipality of Goms.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 45 residents
- Description: village and former municipality in Goms in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Niederwald VS” and “Niederwald, Switzerland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Niederwald railway station and St. Theodul church with ossuary and cemetery.
Niederwald railway station
Railway station
Niederwald railway station, is a railway station in the locality of Niederwald, within the municipality of Goms, in the Swiss canton of Valais. It is an intermediate stop on the 1,000 mm metre gauge Furka Oberalp line of the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn and is served by local trains only.
St. Sebastian chapel (emergency helpers chapel) with group haystack
Chapel
Photo: Paebi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blitzingen and Steinhaus.
Blitzingen
Village
Blitzingen is a former municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Blitzingen, Grafschaft, Münster-Geschinen, Niederwald and Reckingen-Gluringen merged into the municipality of Goms.
Bellwald
Village
Photo: Wandervogel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bellwald is a municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Bellwald is situated 2½ km southwest of Niederwald.
Niederwald
Latitude
46.43592° or 46° 26′ 9″ northLongitude
8.18985° or 8° 11′ 23″ eastPopulation
45Elevation
1,241 metres (4,072 feet)Open location code
8FRCC5PQ+9WOpenStreetMap ID
node 240046140OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2659449Wikidata ID
Q70357
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Niederwald” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Niederwald”
- Catalan: “Niederwald”
- Cebuano: “Niederwald (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Niederwald”
- Chinese: “下瓦尔德”
- Chinese: “下瓦爾德”
- Czech: “Niederwald”
- Dutch: “Niederwald”
- Esperanto: “Niederwald VS”
- French: “Niederwald VS”
- French: “Niederwald”
- German: “Niederwald VS”
- German: “Niederwald”
- Hebrew: “נידרוואלד”
- Hungarian: “Niederwald”
- Irish: “Niederwald”
- Italian: “Niederwald VS”
- Italian: “Niederwald”
- Japanese: “ニーダーヴァルト”
- Lombard: “Niederwald”
- Malay: “Niederwald, Switzerland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Niederwald i Sveits”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Niederwald”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Niederwald”
- Piemontese: “Niederwald”
- Polish: “Niederwald”
- Portuguese: “Niederwald”
- Romansh: “Niederwald”
- Slovak: “Niederwald”
- Slovenian: “Niederwald”
- Spanish: “Niederwald”
- Swedish: “Niederwald”
- Swiss German: “Niderwald”
- Turkish: “Niederwald”
- Ukrainian: “Нідервальд”
- Upper Sorbian: “Niederwald”
- Volapük: “Niederwald”
- Waray (Philippines): “Niederwald, Swiza”
- Waray (Philippines): “Niederwald”
- Welsh: “Niederwald”
- “Niederwald”
- “Niederwald VS”
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