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Feuerthalen
Zurichvillage
Feuerthalen
Total population
3,848
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Overview
Feuerthalen is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Langwiesen also belongs to the same municipality.
Read more on WikipediaHistory & geography
History
Feuerthalen is first mentioned in 876 as Langewisa. In 1318 it was mentioned as Fuirtal an dem Rine.
Geography
Feuerthalen has an area of . Of this area, 16.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 43.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 38.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). It is located on the left bank of the Rhine and provided the bridgehead on that side of the river for the city of Schaffhausen. It includes the village of Langwiesen which in turn shares an international border with the municipality of Büsingen am Hochrhein which is an exclave of Germany, entirely surrounded by Swiss territory.
Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).
Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
Climate
Air quality
Walkability
Amenities nearby
Wildlife & biodiversity
Earthquake history
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Sights & places nearby
Notable people from here
Nearby places in Zurich
- Langwiesen0.8 mi away
- Flurlingen0.9 mi away · pop. 1,404
- Uhwiesen1.5 mi away
- Nohl2.2 mi away
- Dachsen2.3 mi away · pop. 1,986
- Benken ZH2.6 mi away · pop. 859
- Wildensbuch3 mi away
- Rudolfingen3.7 mi away
- Rheinau3.9 mi away · pop. 1,300
- Trullikon4.3 mi away · pop. 989
- Marthalen4.5 mi away · pop. 1,803
- Oerlingen4.8 mi away
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Public attention
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Official Identifiers
BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- BFS-Nr
- 27
- Population (Wikidata)
- 3,636
- Wikidata
- Q66283
Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image
- • BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771