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Merching

municipality of Aichach-Friedberg district, Bavaria, Germany
AdministrativeArea municipality_without_town_privileges_in_germany Q1921480

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality without town privileges in Germany
Official website
www.merching.de[12]

Location

Country
Germany[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 48.250°, 10.983°[11]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Aichach-Friedberg[2]
Shares border with
Schmiechen, Steindorf[5][6]

Population and size

Area
+24.83
Elevation above sea level
+529
Population
3.2k (711–3.3k, n=19)[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]

Codes

Local dialing code
08233[10]
Postal code
86504[7]
More facts +6
Part of
Stimmkreis Aichach-Friedberg, Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Mering[8]
Hashtag
Merching
Head of government
Martin Walch[4]
Licence plate code
AIC[9]
List of monuments
Liste der Baudenkmäler in Merching
Office held by head of government
mayor of Merching
🏷️ Also known as
en Merching ar مرتشينغ fa مرشینگ ja メルヒング ja メルヒンク ru Мерхинг uk Мерхінг zh 梅尔兴
🔖 Identifiers · 23
VIAF cluster ID
157225182
Library of Congress authority ID
n89146307
GND ID
4115103-3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Haltepunkt Merching Bahnsteig.JPG ↗
Bavarikon ID
ODB_A00000562
FAST ID
1258080
FactGrid item ID
Helmut Schoeck
Freebase ID
/m/02q048s
GeoNames ID
6557116
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 6557116 GND (DNB) 2871835 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
German municipality key
09771145
German regional key
097710145145
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7131883
Show all 23 identifiers +11
Historical Gazetteer (GOV) ID
object_256275
Instagram location ID
326524627
Klimadashboard.de region ID
6163c60d-5cac-40c0-af4c-04fac0d005a3
NL CR AUT ID
ge755414
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007562594905171
OpenStreetMap node ID
121807151
OpenStreetMap relation ID
396003
Topic's main category
Category:Merching
Trismegistos Geo ID
35239
Who's on First ID
101834003
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJkdh9HwvRHR3XxDkJRdwC
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
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20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
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🔗 Connections
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
Country 1
Germany
FactGrid item ID 1
Helmut Schoeck
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Aichach-Friedberg
Part of 1
Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Mering
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Aichach-Friedberg
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Summary

Merching is a municipality without town privileges in Germany[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Merching covers an area of {'amount': '+24.83'}[24]. Merching sits at an elevation of {'amount': '+529'}[25].

Related Entities

Germany

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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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. 9w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+2233'}, {'amount': '+1772'}, {'amount': '+1507'} +16
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/51891|batch #51891]]: einwohnerzahlen2025"
  2. 18w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+2233'}, {'amount': '+1772'}, {'amount': '+1507'} +16
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39115|batch #39115]]: einwohnerzahlen2024"
  3. 21w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    Shares border with → Schmiechen, Steindorf
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/35991|batch #35991]]"
  4. 23w ago · Porrima · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    List of monuments → Liste der Baudenkmäler in Merching
    Elevation above sea level → {'amount': '+529'}
    Part of → —
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Shares border with: Schmiechen"
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