Geltwil
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Geltwil is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Geltwil
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Geltwil 192.jpg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Geltwil COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Geltwil Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Aargau
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-AG
- Swiss town.district
- Muri
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 5637
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 4232
- Swiss town.area
- 3.28
- Swiss town.elevation
- 681
- Swiss town.population
- 180
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2006
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2006
- Swiss town.website
- www.geltwil.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Beinwil (Freiamt), Benzenschwil, Buttwil, Muri, Müswangen (LU)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Geltwil
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Muri District
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 215
- Area
- 3.28
- Elevation
- 656
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Müswangen
- Official website
- www.geltwil.ch
- Image
- Geltwil 192.jpg
- Dialing code
- 056
- Licence plate code
- AG
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- Commons category
- Geltwil
- postal code
- 5637
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/4232
- P8168
- Wettenhausen Abbey
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Economy
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- References
Geltwil is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
==History== thumb|left|Battle of Geltwil during the Sonderbund war The earliest trace of human settlement near Geltwil is a Roman era villa. The modern municipality of Geltwil is first mentioned in 1160 as Geltwile. The history of Geltwil was always closely connected with Muri Abbey. In the 13th century the main part of the land was given by Habsburgs to the abbey. Even after the conquest of the Aargau in 1415 the village belonged the Muri district.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Geltwil” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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