Meggen
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Meggen is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Meggen
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Schloss Meggenhorn, mit Sicht auf das luzerner Seebecken.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Meggen COA.png
- Swiss town.canton
- Lucerne
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-LU
- Swiss town.district
- Lucerne
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6045
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1063
- Swiss town.area
- 13.93
- Swiss town.elevation
- 479
- Swiss town.website
- www.meggen.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Carmen Holdener
- Swiss town.mayor_asof
- 2024
- Swiss town.mayor_party
- (The Centre)
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Gemeindepräsident
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Adligenswil, Greppen, Horw, Küssnacht (SZ), Lucerne (Luzern), Stansstad (NW), Weggis
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Gemeinde Meggen
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Meggen
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Luzern-Land Constituency
- Official language
- Swiss High German
- Population
- 7238
- Area
- 7.27
- Elevation
- 479
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Lake Lucerne
- Shares border with
- Lucerne
- Official website
- www.meggen.ch
- Image
- Schloss Meggenhorn, mit Sicht auf das luzerner Seebecken.jpg
- Dialing code
- 041
- Licence plate code
- LU
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- Commons category
- Meggen
- postal code
- 6045
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/1063
- P8168
- Blackburn Beverley
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Demographics
- Transportation
- Notable residents
- References
- External links
Meggen is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
==History== Meggen is first mentioned in 1226 as Meken, though a 14th Century copy of an older document mentions in Acta Murensia around 1160.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meggen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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