Fiesch

Fiesch is a municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Nearby Fiescheralp is administered by Fiesch and is accessible by the Eggishorn lift.

It has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site for its view of the Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area.

Fiesch has an area, as of 2011[update], of 11.3 square kilometers (4.4 sq mi).

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a fess wavy Argent in base Coupeaux of the same.

[4] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (872 or 87.6%) as their first language, Serbo-Croatian is the second most common (87 or 8.7%) and Albanian is the third (13 or 1.3%).

[4] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][11] Fiesch is twinned with the town of Neufra, Germany.

In the federal election, a total of 356 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.6%.

[14] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 356 votes were cast, of which 7 or about 2.0% were invalid.

Above Fiesch, in the Fiescheralp (previously referred to as Kühboden), there is a ski resort and a launch point for hang glider and paraglider pilots.

In the tertiary sector; 84 or 18.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 55 or 12.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 119 or 26.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 18 or 4.0% were the insurance or financial industry, 9 or 2.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 4 or 0.9% were in education and 80 or 17.7% were in health care.

[4] From the 2000 census[update], 804 or 80.7% were Roman Catholic, while 60 or 6.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The education system in the Canton of Valais allows young children to attend one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten.

[20] Fiesch is served by the following transport connections: From the village one cable car brings you to Fiescheralp.

This new cable car starts directly at the train station and has been opened in 2019.

Historic aerial photograph by Werner Friedli from 1955
Fiesch viewed from the lift
View towards the church from the main road by the river
Village church
Fiesch combined train bus cable station
Fiesch, new 2019, combined train bus and cable station
Fiesch old train station
Fiescheralp