Valais
Leuk District
Gampel-Bratsch

Niwen

The Niwen is a mountain of the , overlooking the Rhone in the upper canton of . It lies in the massif that separates the valley of from the lower and that culminates at the .
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Photo: Kampfwanderer, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Torrenthorn and Goppenstein railway station.

Peak
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The is a mountain of the , overlooking in the canton of . It lies south of the . In winter the is part of a ski area.

Railway station
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Goppenstein is a railway station in the canton of Valais and . The station is located on the Lötschberg line of the BLS AG, just outside the southern portal of the Lötschberg tunnel.

Peak
Photo: Zacharie Grossen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a mountain of the , located east of in the canton of . It lies between the and the , on the chain that separates the valley of Leukerbad from the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Goppenstein and Bratsch.

Village
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is a hamlet in the canton of , located in the lower and traversed by the Lonza river. It belongs to the municipality of .

Village
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is a village in the municipality of in the district of Leuk of the canton of in . was an independent municipality until January 1, 2009, when it merged with to form .

Village
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is a former municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of in . On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of merged into the municipality of .

Niwen

Latitude
46.36115° or 46° 21′ 40″ north
Longitude
7.71237° or 7° 42′ 45″ east
Elevation
2,769 metres (9,085 feet)
Open location code
8FR99P66+FW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6914503729
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
6933656
Wiki­data ID
Q664738
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Niwen” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Niwen”
  • Chinese: “尼文山”
  • Dutch: “Niwen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل نيوين”
  • French: “Niwen”
  • German: “Niwen”
  • Ladin: “Niwen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Niwen”
  • Swedish: “Niwen”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Niwen”. Photo: Kampfwanderer, Public domain.