Biel
Biel is a village in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It was an independent municipality until 2001, when it merged with Ritzingen and Selkingen into the municipality Grafschaft.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village and former municipality in Goms in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Biel (Goms)”, “Biel (Grafschaft)”, and “Biel, Valais”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Biel railway station and Mother of God chapel.
Biel railway station
Railway station
Photo: NAC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Biel railway station, is a railway station in the locality of Biel, within the municipality of Goms, 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.
Blitzingen railway station
Railway stop
Blitzingen railway station, is a railway station in the locality of Blitzingen, 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ritzingen and Blitzingen.
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.
Reckingen
Village
Photo: Paebi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Reckingen is a village, which is situated 2½ km northeast of Biel.
Biel
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Goms, Goms District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.45589° or 46° 27′ 21″ northLongitude
8.21661° or 8° 12′ 60″ eastElevation
1,313 metres (4,308 feet)Open location code
8FRCF648+9JOpenStreetMap ID
node 436364835OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Western Panjabi—“Biel” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Biel VS”
- Dutch: “Biel”
- French: “Biel (Grafschaft)”
- French: “Biel”
- German: “Biel (Grafschaft)”
- German: “Biel VS”
- German: “Biel”
- Irish: “Biel”
- Italian: “Biel (Grafschaft)”
- Italian: “Biel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Biel”
- Swedish: “Biel, Valais”
- Swedish: “Biel”
- Upper Sorbian: “Biel”
- Western Panjabi: “بیل”
- “Biel”
- “Biel (Grafschaft)”
- “Biel VS”
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