Saint-Jean (Valais)

Geschichte

Saint-Jean is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais. An independent municipality before, it merged on 1 January 2009 with neighboring Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Luc and Vissoie to form the municipality of Anniviers.HistorySaint-Jean is first mentioned in 1250 as de Sancto Johanne.Coat of armsThe blazon of the village coat of arms is Gules, an Ibex rampant Argent on a Chief Or a Royal Orb Sable belted Argent.DemographicsSaint-Jean has a population of 237. Most of the population speaks French (193 or 98.5%) as their first language, German is the second most common (1 or 0.5%) and Italian is the third (1 or 0.5%).Of the population in the village, 119 or about 60.7% were born in Saint-Jean and lived there in 2000. There were 47 or 24.0% who were born in the same canton, while 13 or 6.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 7 or 3.6% were born outside of Switzerland., there were 76 people who were single and never married in the village. There were 106 married individuals, 11 widows or widowers and 3 individuals who are divorced.