Altwis
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Altwis is a former municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2021 the former municipality of Altwis merged into the municipality of Hitzkirch.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Altwis
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Kaaschtel 01.jpg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Altwis COA.png
- Swiss town.canton
- Lucerne
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-LU
- Swiss town.district
- Hochdorf
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6286
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1022
- Swiss town.area
- 2.90
- Swiss town.elevation
- 484
- Swiss town.population
- 430
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2019
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2019
- Swiss town.website
- www.altwis.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Aesch, Ermensee, Hämikon, Hitzkirch, Mosen
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Ortsteil
- Official name
- Altwis
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Lucerne
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 437
- Area
- 2.93
- Elevation
- 484
- Shares border with
- Hämikon
- Official website
- www.altwis.ch
- Image
- Altwis 370.jpg
- Dialing code
- 041
- Licence plate code
- LU
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Altwis
- postal code
- 6286
- P8168
- L. M. Shaw
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/1022
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Demographics
- References
- Notes
- External links
Altwis is a former municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2021 the former municipality of Altwis merged into the municipality of Hitzkirch.
==History== Altwis is first mentioned in 1113 as Altwise.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Altwis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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