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Elsau

municipality in Switzerland
AdministrativeArea municipality_of_switzerland Q64832

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
municipality of Switzerland
Country
Switzerland[3]
Official website
www.elsau.ch[13]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 47.506°, 8.803°
Area
+8.06, +8.07[21][22]
Associated electoral district
Electoral district Winterthur-Land[24]
Elevation above sea level
+498[20]
Licence plate code
ZH[11]
List of monuments
list of cultural properties in Elsau[19]
Local dialing code
052[12]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Winterthur District[2]
Official language
German[4]
Official name
Elsau[18]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory[23]
Population
4.0k (3.6k–4.0k, n=4)[14][15][16][17]
Postal code
8352[10]
Shares border with
Winterthur, Wiesendangen, Elgg, Hofstetten, Schlatt[5][6][7][8][9]
🏷️ Also known as
en Elsau en Elsau ZH ar إلزاو de Schottikon de Tolhusen de Schnasberg de Rümikon ZH fa الساو ru Эльзау sv Elsau (kommun i Schweiz) uk Ельзау zh 埃爾紹 zh-hans 埃尔绍
🔖 Identifiers · 18
VIAF cluster ID
233877233
GND ID
4547151-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
UnterSchottikonElsau-20120717i.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
54592
External data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch
FactGrid item ID
Wikidata item
Freebase ID
/m/0gp0h_
GADM ID
CHE.26.12.9_1
GeoNames ID
7285722
HDS ID
000146
Hikr waypoint ID
33195
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1682117
Show all 18 identifiers +6
SPAP ID
p/af26f4b5-503e-4881-a89d-23cf3b4a124a
Swiss Enterprise Identification Number
CHE-114.889.013
Swiss municipality code
219
Topic's main category
Category:Elsau
Who's on First ID
404570247
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJgXgDvKXF6hvqyHtk4Xh3

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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Zurich 2026-09-26 A/ADM3 · CH GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 5
Winterthur, Elgg, Wiesendangen, Schlatt, Hofstetten
Contained subdivisions 3
Räterschen railway station, Schottikon railway station, Schottikon
← Municipal affiliation of a Swiss national 2
Jean-Charles Langlois, Ernst Moritz Ludwig Ettmüller
← Shares border with 2
Winterthur, Elgg
Country 1
Switzerland
Instance of 1
municipality of Switzerland
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Winterthur District
Official language 1
German
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Winterthur District
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Summary

Elsau is a Municipality of Switzerland[1].

Related Entities

Switzerland WikiProject Govdirectory

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . statistik.zh.ch. statistik.zh.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . govdirectory.org. Retrieved . govdirectory.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16d ago · Horgner · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+3616'}, {'amount': '+3631'}, {'amount': '+3660'} +1
    Wikipedia languages → ['ace', 'als', 'ar', 'ast', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cv', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'fa
    Associated electoral district → Electoral district Winterthur-Land
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Population: 3,957, mass upload ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/e2ea98ac2e9|details]])"
  2. 19w ago · Lehmannro · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Elsau
    Official language → German
    Population → {'amount': '+3616'}, {'amount': '+3631'}, {'amount': '+3660'} +1
    Country → Switzerland
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Flag image: CHE Elsau Flag.svg, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782070149300"
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