Melchnau
Sign in to saveMelchnau is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 4917
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Melchnau
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Melchnau COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Melchnau Flag.svg
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Melchnau Dorf.JPG
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Oberaargau
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0333
- Swiss town.area
- 10.4
- Swiss town.elevation
- 481
- Swiss town.website
- melchnau.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Altbüron (LU), Busswil bei Melchnau, Gondiswil, Grossdietwil (LU), Madiswil, Pfaffnau (LU), Reisiswil, Untersteckholz
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Melchnau is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
==History== thumb|left|upright|Coat of arms of the Grünenberg family from around 1450–1480 thumb|left|Aerial view from 3000 m par Walter Mittelholzer (1923) Melchnau celebrated its 900th anniversary in 2000. The earliest written evidence for the town dates from about 1100. Melchnau is first mentioned in 1194 as Melchinove.