Bürchen
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Bürchen (Walliser German: Birchu) is a municipality in the district of Raron in the German-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Bürchen
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Bürchen COA alt.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Bürchen Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Valais
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-VS
- Swiss town.district
- Raron
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3935
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 6193
- Swiss town.area
- 13.5
- Swiss town.elevation
- 1360
- Swiss town.population
- 704
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2002
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2002
- Swiss town.website
- www.buerchen.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Philipp Zenhäusern
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Raron, Törbel, Unterbäch, Visp, Zeneggen
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Bürchen
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Westlich Raron District
- Population
- 730
- Area
- 13.44
- Elevation
- 1563
- Official website
- gemeinde.buerchen.ch
- Image
- Bürchen VS.jpg
- Dialing code
- 027
- Licence plate code
- VS
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- Commons category
- Bürchen
- postal code
- 3935
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/6193
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Sights
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Education
- Winter sports
- References
- External links
Bürchen (Walliser German: Birchu) is a municipality in the district of Raron in the German-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
==History== Bürchen is first mentioned in 1307 as ze Birke. In 1363 it was mentioned as Birkonberg, in 1441 as Birchen and in 1755 as Betula.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bürchen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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