Egolzwil
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Egolzwil is a municipality in the district of Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Egolzwil
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Egolzwil 035.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Egolzwil COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Egolzwil Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Lucerne
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-LU
- Swiss town.district
- Willisau
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6243
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1127
- Swiss town.area
- 4.17
- Swiss town.elevation
- 523
- Swiss town.website
- www.egolzwil.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Dagmersellen, Nebikon, Schötz, Wauwil
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Egolzwil
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Willisau Constituency
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 1457
- Area
- 4.18
- Elevation
- 523
- Body of water
- Wigger
- Shares border with
- Wauwil
- Official website
- www.egolzwil.ch
- Image
- Egolzwil 035.jpg
- Dialing code
- 041
- Licence plate code
- LU
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- Commons category
- Egolzwil
- postal code
- 6243
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/1127
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
- References
- External links
Egolzwil is a municipality in the district of Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
==History== Egolzwil is first mentioned around 1160 as Eigoltiswile. During World War II, Allied soldiers who were caught after their escape from the Swiss internment camps were detained in the prison camp Wauwilermoos.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Egolzwil” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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