Grenchen
municipality in Switzerland
Grenchen (French: Granges) is a municipality in the district Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
Grenchen | |
|---|---|
 City Hall | |
 Seal | |
  Grenchen | |
| Coordinates: 47°11′27.5″N 7°23′47.4″E / 47.190972°N 7.396500°E | |
| Country |  Switzerland |
| Canton |  Solothurn |
| District | Lebern |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | François Scheidegger |
| Area | |
| • Total | 26.01 km2 (10.04 sq mi) |
| Population (December 5, 2000) | |
| • Total | 15,938 |
| • Density | 612.8/km2 (1,587/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| Postal code | 2540 |
| Area code | 2546 |
| Website | Official website |
With a population of around 16,000 people, it is one of the largest municipalities in the canton of Solothurn.
HistoryEdit
In the year 1000, a castle was built in Grenchen and was lived in for a few hundred years, but the name Grenchen was not first used until 1131. Its name comes from the Gallo-Romanic word graneca, which means by the grainery.
ReferencesEdit
Other websitesEdit
Media related to Grenchen at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (in German)
