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Obersulm

municipality in Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 13, 2023
Entity authorityQ506088 ↗
Source-derived summary

Obersulm is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, formed in the 1970s as a merger of the formerly independent municipalities Affaltrach, Eichelberg, Eschenau, Sülzbach, Weiler, and Willsbach. It is situated 12 km east of Heilbronn. Its name refers to its geographical location in the upper ("Ober-") valley of the small river Sulm.

The nineteenth-century synagogue has been restored in 1987.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Obersulm” as municipality in Germany. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Obersulm, municipality and Germany can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as municipality in Germany. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 13, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q506088. VIAF identifies the subject as 154759573. The Library of Congress control number is n79099512. Authority coordinates are 49.133, 9.383. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “Obersulm” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.