Community number

The municipality number (also called code no. , GEOSTAT no. Or BFS no. ) Is a number that was first assigned by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS) with the official register of municipalities in 1960, which clearly identifies territorial units in the catchment area serves Switzerland. The counterpart in Germany and Austria is called the community key .

As a rule, these are the political municipalities , but they can also be areas under purely cantonal sovereignty (especially lakes) or so-called municipalities (common sovereign rights of several municipalities) (see below).

For purely statistical purposes, numbers were also assigned to the municipalities of the Principality of Liechtenstein and some places in Germany (Constance south of the Seerhein and the enclave of Büsingen on the Upper Rhine ) and Italy (enclave Campione ). The assignment of such numbers does not justify any sovereignty.

General

Numbers are assigned according to the list of cantons in Article 1 of the Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation , within the cantons by district and, furthermore, alphabetically by municipality name . Communes of cantons without districts were numbered consecutively. The community number consists of one to four digits.

Exceptions to the rule indicate later changes (after 1986).

The municipality number is not only used as a key for all statistical evaluations, but also for many other applications, e.g. B. in road construction by some cantons for the bridge designations.

Number ranges

Canton numbers were assigned according to two systems:

Cantons with a divided professional vote as a number with decimals (No. 1 to 23)
Cantons with a divided professional vote with their own number (No. 1 to 26)
In the fourth column, the associated community numbers

Canton	Number (23)	Number (26)	Parish numbers
Canton Zurich Zurich	01	01	0001-0261
Canton Bern Bern	02	02	0301-0996
Canton lucerne Lucerne	03	03	1001-1150
Canton of Uri Uri	04th	04th	1201-1220
Canton of Schwyz Schwyz	05	05	1301-1375
Canton of Obwalden Obwalden	06.1	06th	1401-1407
Canton of Nidwalden Nidwalden	06.2	07th	1501-1511
Canton of Glarus Glarus	07th	08th	1630-1632
Canton of Zug train	08th	09	1701-1711
Canton of Friborg Freiburg	09	10	2001-2336
Canton of Solothurn Solothurn	10	11	2401-2622
Canton of Basel-Stadt Basel city	11.1	12	2701-2703
Canton of Basel-Country Basel-Country	11.2	13	2761-2895
Canton of Schaffhausen Schaffhausen	12	14th	2901-2974
Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden Appenzell Ausserrhoden	13.1	15th	3001-3038
Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden	13.2	16	3101-3111
Canton of St. Gallen St. Gallen	14th	17th	3201-3444
canton of Grisons Grisons	15th	18th	3501-3987
Kanton Aargau Aargau	16	19th	4001-4323
Canton of Thurgau Thurgau	17th	20th	4401-4951
Canton of Ticino Ticino	18th	21st	5001-5322
Canton of Vaud Vaud	19th	22nd	5401-5939
Canton of Valais Valais	20th	23	6001-6300
Canton of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel	21st	24	6401-6511
Canton of Geneva Geneva	22nd	25th	6601-6645
Canton of Jura law	23	26th	6701-6806

Examples

Canton Zurich Zurich

Affoltern district : FSO No. 0001-0014
- Aeugst am Albis municipality : FSO no. 0001
- Affoltern am Albis municipality : FSO no. 0002
- ...
- Wettswil am Albis municipality : FSO no. 0014
District Andelfingen : FSO No. 0021-0044
- Municipality of Adlikon : FSO No. 0021
- Municipality of Benken (ZH) : FSO no. 0022
- ...
- Waltalingen municipality : FSO no. 0044

Canton Bern Bern

Former district of Aarberg : Code no. 0301-0312 (valid until December 31, 2009)
Seeland administrative district : code no. 0243 (valid from January 1, 2010)
- Aarberg municipality : code no. 0301 (municipality numbers of the political municipalities remain with the introduction of administrative districts and regions in the canton of Bern from January 1, 2011)
- ...

Specialties

Free areas have been left between districts and cantons that allow a certain flexibility for changes.

According to the Federal Statistical Office, the specialist areas listed below are part of the BFS numbering system, although these areas are not municipalities. The numbers of these areas, together with the cantonal lake shares, serve to provide the complete, i.e. H. to collect or present the complete area of Switzerland in statistics, geographic information systems and the like.

Communances , d. H. Areas that are subject to the sovereignty of several municipalities or (mostly uninhabited) communal areas that cannot be clearly assigned to a single municipality:
- Municipality of Cadenazzo / Monteceneri (FSO No .: 5391; until December 31, 2003: 5020) (until March 2005: Municipality of Medeglia-Robasacco in the Distretto di Bellinzona, Canton Ticino)
- Kommunanz Capriasca / Lugano (FSO-No .: 5394; until December 31, 2003: 5238) in the Distretto di Lugano, Canton Ticino
- Kommunanz Reckingen-Gluringen / Grafschaft (BFS-No .: 6391) in the district of Goms, Canton Wallis (until December 31, 2003: Kommunanz Gluringen-Ritzingen (BFS-No .: 6072))

Areas outside the political communities in Switzerland. It refers to
- a single land area in the lake district of the canton of Friborg, the Galm state forest (FSO no .: 2391; until December 31, 2003: 2285), and around
- Sea areas, d. H. public waters that are directly under the sovereignty of one or more cantons. The 22 lakes that are not assigned to any district, canton or municipality have pseudo-municipality numbers between 9040 and 9757:
  - Greifensee (FSO no .: 9040)
  - Lake Zurich (BFS no .: 9050; subdivided into: 9051: area ZH, 9052: area SZ and 9053: area SG)
  - Lake Thun (FSO-No .: 9073)
  - Lake Brienz (FSO No .: 9089)
  - Bielersee / Lac de Bienne (FSO no .: 9148; subdivided into: 9149: area BE and 9150: area NE)
  - Lake Neuchâtel / Lac de Neuchâtel (FSO No .: 9151; subdivided into: 9152: Area BE, 9153: Area FR, 9154: Area VD and 9155: Area NE)
  - Baldeggersee (FSO-No .: 9157)
  - Sempachersee (FSO No .: 9163)
  - Hallwilersee (BFS no .: 9172; divided into: 9173: LU area and 9174: AG area)
  - Lake Zug (BFS no .: 9175; subdivided into: 9176: area LU, 9177: area SZ and 9178: area ZG)
  - Vierwaldstättersee (BFS-No .: 9179; divided into: 9180: area LU, 9181: area UR, 9182: area SZ, 9183: area OW and 9184: area NW)
  - Sihlsee (BFS no .: 9216)
  - Sarnersee (FSO-No .: 9239)
  - Walensee (BFS no .: 9267; subdivided into: 9268: area GL and 9269: area SG)
  - Aegerisee (FSO-No .: 9270)
  - Lake Gruyère / Lac de la Gruyère (FSO No .: 9276)
  - Murtensee (BFS no .: 9294; subdivided into: 9295: area FR and 9296: area VD)
  - Lake Constance (Swiss part: BFS no .: 9326; subdivided into 9327: area SH, 9328: area SG, 9329: area TG)
  - Lake Lugano / Lago di Lugano (FSO No .: 9710, excluding Lake Campione d'Italia , see below)
  - Lake Maggiore (FSO no .: 9711)
  - Lac de Joux (FSO No .: 9751)
  - Lake Geneva / Lac Léman (FSO no .: 9757; subdivided into 9758: area VD, 9759: area VS, 9760: area GE)

Foreign areas that have been assigned a Swiss community number (pseudo community number) in GEOSTAT:
- the German city of Constance (BFS-No .: 7111),
- the German enclave Büsingen on the Upper Rhine (FSO no .: 7101),
- the Italian enclave Campione d'Italia (FSO-No .: 7301 for the land part and 7302 for the sea part),
- the municipalities in the Principality of Liechtenstein : Vaduz (BFS-No .: 7001), Triesen (BFS-No .: 7002), Balzers (BFS-No .: 7003), Triesenberg (BFS-No .: 7004), Schaan (BFS- No .: 7005), Planken (BFS No .: 7006), Eschen (BFS No .: 7007), Mauren (BFS No .: 7008), Gamprin (BFS No .: 7009), Ruggell (BFS- No .: 7010), Schellenberg (BFS No .: 7011).

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