Grossaffoltern
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Grossaffoltern is a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is known for its stork colony.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Grossaffoltern
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Panorama Grossaffoltern Kosthofen 03.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Grossaffoltern-Kosthofen
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Grossaffoltern BE COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Grossaffoltern Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Seeland
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3257
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0303
- Swiss town.area
- 15.06
- Swiss town.elevation
- 511
- Swiss town.website
- grossaffoltern.ch
- Swiss town.places
- Ammerzwil, Kaltenbrunnen, Kosthofen, Ottiswil, Suberg, Vorimholz, Weingarten
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Diessbach bei Büren, Lyss, Rapperswil, Schüpfen, Seedorf, Wengi
- Swiss town.twintowns
- Horsovsky Tyn (Czech Republic)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Grossaffoltern
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Aarberg District
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 3018
- Area
- 15.08
- Elevation
- 550
- Shares border with
- Diessbach bei Büren
- Official website
- www.grossaffoltern.ch
- Image
- Grossaffoltern 6869.JPG
- Dialing code
- 032
- Licence plate code
- BE
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- Commons category
- Grossaffoltern
- twinned administrative body
- Horšovský Týn
- postal code
- 3262
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/303
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Encyclopedic overview
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Grossaffoltern is a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is known for its stork colony.
==History== thumb|left|Hauert's fertilizer factory around 1960 Grossaffoltern is first mentioned in 1216 as Affoltron.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grossaffoltern” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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