Jeizinen
Origin of the name Jeizinen
Jeizinen is the official spelling of the hamlet on the national map. The meaning of the name has not been established.[6]
Founding of Jeizinen
Jeizinen is a mountain hamlet above Gampel. Together with the village of Gampel it formed the former municipality of that name, but it gave itself its own statutes. It is not known when the place was first inhabited. Today Jeizinen is a resort linked to Gampel by cable and to Leuk by road. Since the merger of 2009 it has belonged to the municipality of Gampel-Bratsch.[1]
History of Jeizinen
mid-17th century. A chapel is built in the hamlet.[1]
1674. Jeizinen gives itself statutes, more than a century after the village of Gampel.[1]
1793. A fire devastates the hamlet.[1]
1953. Until then only a mule track climbs from Gampel. Residents revive a cable transport project and ask the canton and the Confederation for subsidies.[7]
1960. Completion of the Gampel-Jeizinen cable car, built by the Habegger company.[2]
1964. Walter Städeli builds a first ski lift, from Üflänge (1'783 m) to the Grindji (2'192 m).[2]
1965-1966. A new chapel is built.[1]
1968. The road to Jeizinen opens to the public, eight years after the cable car.[2][7]
around 1971. A project for a chairlift from Jeizinen to Uflängen, Ober Fesel and Niwen is submitted for consultation to the heritage protection services.[3]
1978. On 23 December the Jeizinen-Üflänge chairlift opens.[2]
1985. Garaventa replaces the drive, the electronic controls and the cabins of the cable car.[7]
2009. The municipalities of Gampel and Bratsch merge. Jeizinen is now part of Gampel-Bratsch.
2023. The firm Inauen-Schätti replaces the whole drive of the cable car.[7]
2025. At the start of the year, operation of the cable car passes to the company Alplift SA.[7]
Historic sites in Jeizinen
Gampel-Jeizinen cable car. The line runs from Gampel, at 640 m, up to the Jeizinen top station at 1'525 m. It is 1'957 m long, with a height difference of 885 m. The ten-seat cabins make the trip in about eight minutes.[2][4]
Chapels. The hamlet has a chapel from the mid-17th century and a more recent chapel built in 1965-1966.[1]
Sources
- Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, « Gampel » (Rachel Siggen-Bruttin, version du 23.12.2016)
- remontees-mecaniques.net, « Station de Jeizinen » (remontées mécaniques et historique technique)
- Bibliothèque nationale suisse, HelveticArchives, « Projekt der Sesselbahn Jeizinen - Uflängen - Ober Fesel - Niwen, 1971 (ca.) » (archives Martin Fröhlich, EAD-FROE-2-475-5)
- bergbahnen.org, « 10-LPB Gampel-Jeizinen » (fiche technique)
- Office fédéral de la statistique (OFS), STATPOP, chiffres provisoires au 31.12.2025, via citypopulation.de
- geo.admin.ch, service de recherche de swisstopo (Jeizinen)
- remontees-mecaniques.net, « TPH10 Gampel - Jeizinen » (reportage et historique)
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