Grenchen
municipality in Switzerland
Grenchen (French: Granges) is a city in the district Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
Grenchen | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Grenchen  | |
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| Coordinates: 47°11′N 7°24′E / 47.183°N 7.400°ECoordinates: 47°11′N 7°24′E / 47.183°N 7.400°E | |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Canton | Solothurn |
| District | Lebern |
| Government | |
| • Executive | Gemeinderat with 15 members |
| • Mayor | Stadtpräsident (list) François Scheidegger FDP/PRD (as of 2014) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 26.08 km2 (10.07 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 451 m (1,480 ft) |
| Population (2018-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 17,371 |
| • Density | 670/km2 (1,700/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (Central European Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time) |
| Postal code(s) | 2540 |
| SFOS number | 2546 |
| Surrounded by | Arch (BE), Bettlach, Büren an der Aare (BE), Court (BE), Lengnau (BE), Romont (BE), Rüti bei Büren (BE), Selzach |
| Twin towns | Neckarsulm (Germany), Sélestat (France) |
| Website | www SFSO statistics |
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Arealstatistik Standard - Gemeinden nach 4 Hauptbereichen". Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
- ↑ "Ständige Wohnbevölkerung nach Staatsangehörigkeitskategorie Geschlecht und Gemeinde; Provisorische Jahresergebnisse; 2018". Federal Statistical Office. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
Other websitesEdit
Media related to Grenchen at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (in German)
