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Obersaxen
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Also known as Obersaxen GR

Obersaxen () is a former municipality in the district of Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Obersaxen and Mundaun merged to form the new municipality of Obersaxen Mundaun.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name
Obersaxen
Swiss town.image_photo
Obersaxen westwärts.jpg
Swiss town.municipality_type
Former municipality
Swiss town.imagepath_flag
CHE Obersaxen Mundaun Flag.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_coa
CHE Obersaxen Mundaun COA.svg
Swiss town.canton
Graubünden
Swiss town.iso code region
CH-GR
Swiss town.district
Surselva
Swiss town.postal_code
7134
Swiss town.municipality_code
3612
Swiss town.area
61.54
Swiss town.elevation
1281
Swiss town.elevation_description
Meierhof
Swiss town.population
838
Swiss town.populationof
Dec 2014
Swiss town.popofyear
2014
Swiss town.website
www.obersaxenmundaun.swiss
Swiss town.places
Obersaxen, Meierhof

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Obersaxen () is a former municipality in the district of Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Obersaxen and Mundaun merged to form the new municipality of Obersaxen Mundaun.

==History== Obersaxen is first mentioned in 765 as Supersaxa though this is from a copy which dates from later. In 956 it was mentioned as Supersaxa, and in 1227 as Ubersahse.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Obersaxen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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