Jean Pierre Grosheni

Note: Grosheny, Groshenny, Groshaeny, GROSHEUNY, GROSSHEUNY, GROSSHENNY, Groshenau

[https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gressoney-Saint-Jean]

Traditionally, the two municipalities of Gressoney-La-Trinité and Gressoney-Saint-Jean form a unique territorial and cultural entity, called Gressoney in French , Greschòney (official) or Creschnau [4] [5] in the local dialect of the Walser language ( the Greschòneytitsch or more simply Titsch ) and Kressenau [6] (obsolete form [7] ) in German .

At the toponym Gressoney have been associated over time various meanings:

Chreschen-eye: "plain of the crescioni"
Grossen-eys: "great glacier"
Chreschen-ey: "egg deposited among the crescioni". The most reliable meaning is the first, although no document attests it.

Gressoney is divided into three parts [8] :

Onderteil , which means "the lower part", from the pont de Trenta (in titsch, Trentostäg ) to the capital of Gressoney-Saint-Jean ( Greschòney Zer Chilchu ); Méttelteil , which means "the middle part", including the capital of Saint-Jean ( Greschòney Zer Chilchu ) and the territory upstream to the village of Léschelbalmo; Oberteil , which means "the upper part", which corresponds to the current municipality of Gressoney-La-Trinité . From 1939 to 1946 took the name - Italianized - of Gressonei San Giovanni , part of the town of Gressonei , then suppressed in the same year 1946.