Merenschwand
Merenschwand is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The municipality of Benzenschwil merged on 1 January 2012 into Merenschwand.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,470 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland
- Also known as: “CH4234” and “Merenschwand AG”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Benzenschwil railway station and Muri Abbey.
Benzenschwil railway station
Railway station
Photo: NAC, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Benzenschwil railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Merenschwand, in the Swiss canton of Aargau. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Rupperswil–Immensee line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Muri Abbey
Church
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Muri Abbey was a Benedictine monastery dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours. It flourished for over eight centuries at Muri, in the Canton of Aargau, near Zürich, Switzerland.
Muri AG railway station
Railway station
Photo: NAC, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Muri AG railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Muri, in the Swiss canton of Aargau. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Rupperswil–Immensee line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Muri and Obfelden.
Muri
Village
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Muri, formerly known as Muri, is a municipality in southeastern Swiss Canton Aargau and is the capital of same district. The present municipality of Muri was created in 1816 from the merging of the four municipalities Langdorf, Egg, Hasli and Wey.
Obfelden
Village
Photo: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Obfelden is a municipality in the district of Affoltern in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Obfelden is situated 3½ km east of Merenschwand.
Ottenbach
Village
Photo: Paebi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ottenbach is a municipality in the district of Affoltern in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Ottenbach is situated 3½ km northeast of Merenschwand.
Merenschwand
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Muri District, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.2607° or 47° 15′ 39″ northLongitude
8.3733° or 8° 22′ 24″ eastPopulation
3,470Elevation
381 metres (1,250 feet)Open location code
8FVC796F+78OpenStreetMap ID
node 240024695OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7286488Wikidata ID
Q64755
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Merenschwand” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Merenschwand”
- Basque: “Merenschwand”
- Belarusian: “Мерэншванд”
- Breton: “Merenschwand”
- Catalan: “Merenschwand”
- Cebuano: “Merenschwand (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Merenschwand”
- Chinese: “Merenschwand”
- Chinese: “梅伦施万德”
- Chinese: “梅倫施萬德”
- Czech: “Merenschwand”
- Dutch: “Merenschwand”
- Esperanto: “Hagnau”
- Esperanto: “Merenschwand”
- Esperanto: “Unterrüti”
- French: “Merenschwand”
- German: “Merenschwand AG”
- German: “Merenschwand”
- Hebrew: “מרנשוואנד”
- Hungarian: “Merenschwand”
- Irish: “Merenschwand”
- Italian: “Merenschwand”
- Kazakh: “Мереншванд”
- Lombard: “Merenschwand”
- Malay: “Merenschwand”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Merenschwand”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Merenschwand”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Merenschwand”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Merenschwand”
- Piemontese: “Merenschwand”
- Polish: “Merenschwand”
- Portuguese: “Merenschwand”
- Russian: “Мереншванд”
- Spanish: “Merenschwand”
- Swedish: “Merenschwand”
- Swiss German: “Merischwand”
- Tosk Albanian: “Merenschwand”
- Turkish: “Merenschwand”
- Ukrainian: “Мереншванд”
- Upper Sorbian: “Merenschwand”
- Uzbek: “Merenschwand”
- Uzbek: “Merenshvand”
- Uzbek: “Мереншванд”
- Venetian: “Merenschwand”
- Vietnamese: “Merenschwand”
- Volapük: “Merenschwand”
- Waray (Philippines): “Merenschwand”
- Welsh: “Merenschwand”
- “Merenschwand”
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