Oberhelfenschwil
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Oberhelfenschwil is a former municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. On 1 January 2023 the former municipalities of Hemberg and Oberhelfenschwil merged into the new municipality of Neckertal.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Oberhelfenschwil
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Dorf Oberhelfenschwil.JPG
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Wappen Oberhelfenschwil.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- St. Gallen
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SG
- Swiss town.district
- Toggenburg
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 9621
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 3375
- Swiss town.area
- 12.68
- Swiss town.elevation
- 805
- Swiss town.website
- www.oberhelfenschwil.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Toni Hässig
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Brunnadern, Bütschwil, Ganterschwil, Lichtensteig, Mogelsberg, Wattwil
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Neckertal - Home
oberhelfenschwil.ch →Link to the official site · 6,118 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- Oberhelfenschwil
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Neckertal
- Official language
- Swiss High German
- Population
- 1261
- Area
- 12.65
- Elevation
- 792
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Necker
- Shares border with
- Bütschwil-Ganterschwil
- Official website
- www.oberhelfenschwil.ch
- Image
- 2011-08-21-Oberhelfenschwil (Foto Dietrich Michael Weidmann) 168.JPG
- Dialing code
- 071
- Licence plate code
- SG
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- Commons category
- Oberhelfenschwil
- postal code
- 9621
- replaced by
- Neckertal
- P8168
- Spessard Holland
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/3375
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Economy
- Religion
- References
- External links
Oberhelfenschwil is a former municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. On 1 January 2023 the former municipalities of Hemberg and Oberhelfenschwil merged into the new municipality of Neckertal.
==History== Oberhelfenschwil is first mentioned in 882 as Helfoltiswilare. In 1515 it was mentioned as Oberhelfenschwil.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oberhelfenschwil” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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