Mauren
Sign in to saveMauren (; High Alemannic: Muura) is a municipality in Liechtenstein that is situated in the north of the country. It has a population of 4,401. The Curta mechanical calculator was produced by Contina AG, in Mauren.
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Mauren is a small municipality in northern Liechtenstein with about 4,400 residents. It is historically notable as the birthplace of the Curta mechanical calculator, a precision computing device that was manufactured there by the company Contina AG.
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Mauren (; High Alemannic: Muura) is a municipality in Liechtenstein that is situated in the north of the country. It has a population of 4,401. The Curta mechanical calculator was produced by Contina AG, in Mauren.
==Geography== Mauren borders the Liechtenstein municipalities of Eschen and Schellenberg, as well as the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. The municipality includes the hamlet of Schaanwald, which has the Schaanwald railway station on the Feldkirch-Buchs line. The forests of Bauwald and Maurerberg, east of Schaanwald, take up a third of the municipality's area.