Elgg
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Elgg is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. On 1 January 2018 the former municipality of Hofstetten merged into the municipality of Elgg.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Elgg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Elgg Dorf.jpg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Elgg COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Elgg Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Zurich
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-ZH
- Swiss town.district
- Winterthur
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 8353
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0294
- Swiss town.area
- 15.53
- Swiss town.elevation
- 530
- Swiss town.highest
- above Heurütiweiher
- Swiss town.highest_m
- 825
- Swiss town.lowest_m
- 494
- Swiss town.website
- www.elgg.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Aadorf (TG), Bertschikon bei Attikon, Elsau, Hagenbuch, Hofstetten bei Elgg
- Swiss town.twintowns
- Wenigzell (Austria), Mafi Kumase (Ghana)
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Äschli (Ash Wednesday custom)
- Geography
- Demographics
- Transport
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Elgg is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. On 1 January 2018 the former municipality of Hofstetten merged into the municipality of Elgg.
==History== thumb|Aerial view by Walter Mittelholzer (1920) Elgg () is first mentioned between 760 and 763 as Ailaghoga. In 1166 it was mentioned as Elgoue and in 1370 as Elggaw.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elgg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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