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Blitzingen

Blitzingen is a former municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of in . On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Blitzingen, Grafschaft, Münster-Geschinen, and Reckingen-Gluringen merged into the municipality of .
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  • Type: Village with 74 residents
  • Description: village and former municipality in Goms in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Blitzingen VS”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Blitzingen railway station and Niederwald railway station.

Railway stop
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, is a railway station in the locality of Blitzingen, within the municipality of , in the 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.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
, is a railway station in the locality of , within the municipality of , in the 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.

Chapel
Photo: Paebi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Niederwald and Biel.

Village
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is a former municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of in . On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of , Blitzingen, Grafschaft, Münster-Geschinen and Reckingen-Gluringen merged into the new municipality of .

Village
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is a village in the canton of , . It was an independent municipality until 2001, when it merged with Ritzingen and Selkingen into the municipality Grafschaft.

Village
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is a village.

Blitzingen

Latitude
46.44375° or 46° 26′ 38″ north
Longitude
8.20237° or 8° 12′ 9″ east
Population
74
Elevation
1,306 metres (4,285 feet)
Open location code
8FRCC6V2+FW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240103702
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2661469
Wiki­data ID
Q70341
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Blitzingen” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Blitzingen”
  • Basque: “Blitzingen”
  • Bulgarian: “Блитзинген”
  • Catalan: “Blitzingen”
  • Cebuano: “Blitzingen”
  • Chinese: “布利欽根”
  • Chinese: “布利钦根”
  • Dutch: “Blitzingen”
  • Esperanto: “Blitzingen”
  • French: “Blitzingen”
  • Galician: “Blitzingen”
  • German: “Blitzingen VS”
  • German: “Blitzingen”
  • Hungarian: “Blitzingen”
  • Irish: “Blitzingen”
  • Italian: “Blitzingen”
  • Lombard: “Blitzingen”
  • Malay: “Blitzingen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blitzingen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blitzingen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Blitzingen”
  • Piemontese: “Blitzingen”
  • Portuguese: “Blitzingen”
  • Romansh: “Blitzingen”
  • Slovenian: “Blitzingen”
  • Spanish: “Blitzingen”
  • Swedish: “Blitzingen”
  • Swiss German: “Blitzingu”
  • Turkish: “Blitzingen”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Blitzingen”
  • Volapük: “Blitzingen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Blitzingen”
  • Welsh: “Blitzingen”

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