Frutigen
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Frutigen () is a municipality in the Bernese Oberland area of the Swiss canton of Bern. It is the capital of the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Frutigen
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Frutigen-BE.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Frutigen COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Frutigen Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Frutigen-Niedersimmental
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3714
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0563
- Swiss town.area
- 71.8
- Swiss town.elevation
- 800
- Swiss town.population
- 6718
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2010
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2010
- Swiss town.website
- www.frutigen.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Adelboden, Diemtigen, Kandergrund, Kandersteg, Reichenbach im Kandertal
- Swiss town.twintowns
- Teteven (Bulgaria)
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Gemeinde Frutigen
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Encyclopedic overview
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- References
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Frutigen () is a municipality in the Bernese Oberland area of the Swiss canton of Bern. It is the capital of the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district.
==History== thumb|upright|left|Ruins of Tellenburg Castle thumb|left|Photochrome postcard of Frutigen thumb|left|Aerial view (1967) The area around Frutigen may have been settled since possibly the Bronze Age or Roman Empire times. It is first mentioned in 1234 as Frutingen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Frutigen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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