Hitzkirch
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Hitzkirch is a municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009, Gelfingen, Hämikon, Mosen, Müswangen, Retschwil and Sulz joined Hitzkirch. On 1 January 2021, Altwis merged into Hitzkirch.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Hitzkirch
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Hitzkirch.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Coat of arms of Hitzkirch.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Lucerne
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-LU
- Swiss town.district
- Hochdorf
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6285
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1030
- Swiss town.area
- 24.62
- Swiss town.elevation
- 498
- Swiss town.website
- www.hitzkirch.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Altwis, Ermensee, Gelfingen, Hämikon, Retschwil, Römerswil, Sulz
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Hitzkirch
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Hochdorf Constituency
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 5314
- Area
- 24.66
- Elevation
- 499
- Body of water
- Aabach (Seetal)
- Shares border with
- Hämikon
- Official website
- www.hitzkirch.ch
- Image
- Hitzkirch.jpg
- Dialing code
- 041
- Licence plate code
- LU
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- Commons category
- Hitzkirch
- postal code
- 6295
- P8168
- Miguel R. Dávila
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/1030
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Altwis
- Geography
- Demographics
- Historic Population
- World heritage site
- References
- External links
Hitzkirch is a municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009, Gelfingen, Hämikon, Mosen, Müswangen, Retschwil and Sulz joined Hitzkirch. On 1 January 2021, Altwis merged into Hitzkirch.
==History== Hitzkirch is first mentioned in 1230 as Hiltschilche.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hitzkirch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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