Willisau
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Willisau is a municipality in the district of Willisau in the Lucerne canton of Switzerland. It was formed on 1 January 2006 from the municipalities of Willisau Land (W. Country) and Willisau Stadt (W. Town). On 1 January 2021 the former municipality of Gettnau merged into Willisau.
Key facts
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Picswiss LU-25-15.jpg
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Willisau
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- Willisau Stadt LU.png
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Wappen Gemeinde Willisau Stadt.png
- Swiss town.canton
- Lucerne
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-LU
- Swiss town.district
- Willisau
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6130
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1151
- Swiss town.area
- 41.69
- Swiss town.elevation
- 557
- Swiss town.website
- willisau.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Alberswil, Ettiswil, Gettnau, Grosswangen, Hergiswil bei Willisau, Luthern, Menznau, Ufhusen, Zell
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- History
- {{anchor|Town foundation}}Foundation
- {{anchor|A town survives}}Survival
- Division and reunification
- Gettnau
- Geography
- Demographics
- Historic population
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Parish church
- Holy Blood Church (Heiligblut)
- Politics
- Economy
- Education
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Willisau is a municipality in the district of Willisau in the Lucerne canton of Switzerland. It was formed on 1 January 2006 from the municipalities of Willisau Land (W. Country) and Willisau Stadt (W. Town). On 1 January 2021 the former municipality of Gettnau merged into Willisau.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Willisau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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