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Niederwald

village and former municipality in Goms in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
Place Village Q70357

Facts

14 properties

Designation

Instance of
village, former municipality of Switzerland, municipal part of the Czech Republic, municipality of Switzerland[5][6]
Heritage designation
Swiss townscape worthy of protection[14]

Location

Country
Switzerland[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.433°, 8.183°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Goms District, Goms[1][2]
Postal code
3989[10]
More facts +8
Area
+4.7, +4.66[18][19]
Elevation above sea level
+1251, +1682[16][17]
Local dialing code
027[12]
Located in or next to body of water
Rhône[4]
Official name
Niederwald[15]
Replaced by
Goms[13]
Shares border with
Bellwald, Ernen, Blitzingen[7][8][9]
Vehicle registration plate code
VS[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Niederwald en Niederwald VS de Niederwald VS fr Niederwald VS he נידרוואלד it Niederwald VS ja ニーダーヴァルト ms Niederwald, Switzerland uk Нідервальд zh 下瓦爾德 zh-hans 下瓦尔德
🔖 Identifiers · 12
GND ID
1163348899
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Niederwald wiki.jpg ↗
External data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch
FactGrid item ID
Björck
Freebase ID
/m/0h39pc
GeoNames ID
2659449, 7286653
HDS ID
002694
SPAP ID
p/3d6eca2c-7620-412d-a2a2-b126f87ba6a9
Swiss municipality code
6064
Topic's main category
Category:Niederwald
VerbaAlpina ID
A61126
Who's on First ID
1126035807
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 3
Bellwald, Ernen, Blitzingen
← Municipal affiliation of a Swiss national 3
Cäsar Johann Ritz, Walther Ritz, Rafael Ritz
← Shares border with 3
Bellwald, Ernen, Blitzingen
Instance of 2
village, municipality of Switzerland
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Goms District, Goms
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
Country 1
Switzerland
Located in or next to body of water 1
Rhône
People born here 1
Cäsar Johann Ritz
Replaced by 1
Goms
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Goms District
← Place of burial 1
Cäsar Johann Ritz
← Replaces 1
Goms
← SNARC ID 1
Adam Clarke
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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . gisos.bak.admin.ch. Retrieved . gisos.bak.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 15w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category for people born here → Category:Births in Niederwald, Switzerland
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 46.433333333333, 'lon': 8.1833333333333}
    Replaced by → Goms
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Goms District, Goms
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #43521: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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