Goms
Goms is a 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: Locality with 1,180 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
- Also known as: “CH6077”, “Goms VS”, “Goms, Switzerland”, and “Goms, Valais”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Reckingen VS railway station and Münster VS railway station.
Reckingen VS railway station
Railway station
Photo: NAC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Reckingen VS railway station, is a railway station in the locality of Reckingen-Gluringen, within the municipality of Goms, in the Swiss canton of Valais.
Münster VS railway station
Railway station
Photo: NAC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Münster VS railway station, is a railway station in the locality of Münster-Geschinen, 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 Blitzingen and Biel.
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. Blitzingen is situated 4½ km southwest of Goms.
Biel
Village
Photo: SteveK, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Münster
Village
Photo: Joergsam, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Münster is a village situated in the municipality of Goms, Canton of Valais in Switzerland, at the river Rhône or Rotten.
Goms
- Category: Municipality of Switzerland
- Location: Goms District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Venetian—“Goms” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Goms”
- Czech: “Goms”
- French: “Conches”
- French: “Goms”
- German: “Goms VS”
- German: “Goms”
- Irish: “Goms”
- Italian: “Goms”
- Macedonian: “Гомс”
- Polish: “Goms”
- Portuguese: “Goms”
- Slovenian: “Goms VS”
- Slovenian: “Goms”
- Spanish: “Goms”
- Swedish: “Goms”
- Swiss German: “Goms VS”
- Swiss German: “Goms”
- Tosk Albanian: “Goms VS”
- Turkish: “Goms”
- Ukrainian: “Гомс”
- Upper Sorbian: “Goms”
- Venetian: “Goms”
- “Goms”
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