Obersaxen
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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.
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
- Part of
- Obersaxen Mundaun
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Obersaxen Mundaun
- Population
- 829
- Area
- 61.77
- Elevation
- 1281
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Trun
- Official website
- www.gemeinde-obersaxen.ch
- Image
- Obersaxen westwärts.jpg
- Dialing code
- 081
- Licence plate code
- GR
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- Commons category
- Obersaxen
- postal code
- 7134
- replaced by
- Obersaxen Mundaun
- P8168
- Black Arrows
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Sport
- References
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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