page_title: Gressoney-Saint-Jean
section_title: History, Walser culture and language
hierarchical_section_title: Gressoney-Saint-Jean / History, Walser culture and language
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Targa in memoria dell'inondazione della Lesa il 17 agosto 1868
context_page_description: Gressoney-Saint-Jean is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy.
context_section_description: Though Gressoney-Saint-Jean and Gressoney-La-Trinité form two separate comunes they form a Walser German cultural unity known as Greschòney or Creschnau in Greschoneytitsch (or simply Titsch), the local Walser German dialect, or Kressenau in German.
  In 1868, the Lys flooded the village.
  From 1928 until 1946 the two were united into one commune, officially named Gressoney, which from 1939 onward was  Italianized as Gressonei. After WWII, the two former communes were reconstituted.
  An example of Greschòneytitsch:
caption: Memorial plaque of the 1868 flood written in German and Italian. The plaque shows the high water mark which the river Lys reached on August 17.
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