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Obersaxen
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Also known as Obersaxen GR

Obersaxen () is a former municipality in the district of Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Obersaxen and Mundaun merged to form the new municipality of Obersaxen Mundaun.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name
Obersaxen
Swiss town.image_photo
Obersaxen westwärts.jpg
Swiss town.municipality_type
Former municipality
Swiss town.imagepath_flag
CHE Obersaxen Mundaun Flag.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_coa
CHE Obersaxen Mundaun COA.svg
Swiss town.canton
Graubünden
Swiss town.iso code region
CH-GR
Swiss town.district
Surselva
Swiss town.postal_code
7134
Swiss town.municipality_code
3612
Swiss town.area
61.54
Swiss town.elevation
1281
Swiss town.elevation_description
Meierhof
Swiss town.population
838
Swiss town.populationof
Dec 2014
Swiss town.popofyear
2014
Swiss town.website
www.obersaxenmundaun.swiss
Swiss town.places
Obersaxen, Meierhof

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
village
Population
829
Area
61.77
Elevation
1281
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Shares border with
Trun
Image
Obersaxen westwärts.jpg
Dialing code
081
Licence plate code
GR
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Commons category
Obersaxen
postal code
7134
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Obersaxen () is a former municipality in the district of Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Obersaxen and Mundaun merged to form the new municipality of Obersaxen Mundaun.

==History== Obersaxen is first mentioned in 765 as Supersaxa though this is from a copy which dates from later. In 956 it was mentioned as Supersaxa, and in 1227 as Ubersahse.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Obersaxen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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