Welschenrohr
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Welschenrohr (French: Rosières) is a former municipality in the district of Thal in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of Gänsbrunnen and Welschenrohr merged to form the new municipality of Welschenrohr-Gänsbrunnen.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Welschenrohr
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Welschenrohr.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Welschenrohr village
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Welschenrohr-blazon.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Solothurn
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SO
- Swiss town.district
- Thal
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 4716
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2429
- Swiss town.area
- 12.99
- Swiss town.elevation
- 680
- Swiss town.population
- 1076
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2019
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2019
- Swiss town.website
- welschenrohr.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Balm bei Günsberg, Gänsbrunnen, Herbetswil, Oberdorf, Rüttenen
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Home – Gemeinde Welschenrohr-Gänsbrunnen
Entdecken Sie die Gemeinde Welschenrohr online. Nehmen Sie unsere Dienstleistungen und den Online-Schalter in Anspruch oder informieren Sie sich über die verschiedenen Bereiche unserer Gemeinde.
welschenrohr.ch →Link to the official site · 4,652 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- neighborhood
- Part of
- Welschenrohr-Gänsbrunnen
- Official name
- Welschenrohr
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Thal District
- Official language
- Swiss High German
- Population
- 1114
- Area
- 13.01
- Elevation
- 679
- Official website
- www.welschenrohr.ch
- Image
- Welschenrohr.jpg
- Dialing code
- 032
- Licence plate code
- SO
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- P8168
- Blake
- Commons category
- Welschenrohr
- postal code
- 4716
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2429
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Welschenrohr (French: Rosières) is a former municipality in the district of Thal in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of Gänsbrunnen and Welschenrohr merged to form the new municipality of Welschenrohr-Gänsbrunnen.
==History== Welschenrohr is first mentioned in 1179 as Rore. An important watch manufacturing place up to the 1960s, its economy was heavily affected by the late 1960s watch crisis. Now, its economy specializes in fine mechanics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Welschenrohr” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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