Fraubrunnen
Sign in to saveFraubrunnen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Büren zum Hof, Etzelkofen, Grafenried, Limpach, Mülchi, Schalunen and Zauggenried merged into the municipality of Fraubrunnen.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Fraubrunnen
- Swiss town.image_photo
- FraubrunnenZentrum.JPG
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Fraubrunnen COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Fraubrunnen Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Bern-Mittelland
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3312
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0538
- Swiss town.area
- 31.91
- Swiss town.elevation
- 495
- Swiss town.population
- 1804
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2011
- Swiss town.website
- www.fraubrunnen.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Aefligen, Bätterkinden, Büren zum Hof, Etzelkofen, Grafenried, Kernenried, Limpach, Lyssach, Rüdtligen-Alchenflüh, Schalunen, Zauggenried
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Fraubrunnen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Büren zum Hof, Etzelkofen, Grafenried, Limpach, Mülchi, Schalunen and Zauggenried merged into the municipality of Fraubrunnen.
==History== thumb|left|The former Abbey Fraubrunnen is first mentioned in 1267 as Frouwenbrunnen. There are Hallstatt era tumuli (burial mounds) in the Rüdtligenwald and Binelwald near Fraubrunnen. In the middle of the 13th Century, Fraubrunnen Abbey was founded by Cistercian nuns. For a time the Abbey was a powerful landholder in the area that is now the District of Fraubrunnen. However, in 1528 the Abbey was secularization during the Protestant Reformation.