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Fieschertal

Fieschertal
Fieschertal village
Fieschertal village
Coat of arms of Fieschertal
Coat of arms
Fieschertal is located in Switzerland
Fieschertal
Fieschertal
Fieschertal is located in Canton of Valais
Fieschertal
Fieschertal
Coordinates: 46°30′N 8°8′E / 46.500°N 8.133°E / 46.500; 8.133Coordinates: 46°30′N 8°8′E / 46.500°N 8.133°E / 46.500; 8.133
Country Switzerland
Canton Valais
District Goms
Government
 • Mayor Daniel Zeiter
Area
 • Total 172.96 km2 (66.78 sq mi)
Elevation 1,108 m (3,635 ft)
Population (Dec 2015)
 • Total 319
 • Density 1.8/km2 (4.8/sq mi)
Postal code 3984
SFOS number 6058
Surrounded by Bellwald, Betten, Blatten (Lötschen), Fiesch, Grafschaft, Grindelwald (BE), Guttannen (BE), Lauterbrunnen (BE), Münster-Geschinen, Naters, Reckingen-Gluringen
Website www.fieschertal.ch
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Fieschertal is a village and municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Besides the village of Fieschertal, the municipality includes the nearby hamlets of Wichul, Zer Flie and Wirbul.

Fieschertal is first mentioned in 1351 as vallis de Vies.

The village of Fieschertal is located in the valley of the Wysswasser, a tributary of the Rhone that drains the Fiescher glacier. In addition to the village, the municipality includes a number of nearby hamlets, including Wichul, Zer Flie and Wirbul. However, most of the municipality's area comprises sparsely inhabited high mountain landscape and is heavily glaciated, including most of the Aletsch glacier and its tributary glaciers, together with the whole of the Fiescher glacier. The mountains of the Jungfrau, Mönch, Fiescherhorn, Agassizhorn, Finsteraarhorn, Oberaarhorn, Wasenhorn, Grunhorn, Wannenhorn, Eggishorn, Aletschhorn, Mittaghorn and Gletscherhorn are all either within or on the boundary of the municipality, as is the Märjelen lake. The Jungfraujoch, with the Top of Europe tourist attraction, lies just inside the northern boundary of the municipality, but access is exclusively from communities to the north.


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