Guggisberg

Also known as Guggisberg BE

Guggisberg (Bernese German Guggishbärg ) is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the Swiss canton of Bern.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name: Guggisberg
Swiss town.image_photo: Guggisberg Kirche 1.jpg
Swiss town.municipality_type: municipality
Swiss town.imagepath_coa: CHE Guggisberg COA.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_flag: CHE Guggisberg Flag.svg
Swiss town.canton: Bern
Swiss town.iso code region: CH-BE
Swiss town.district: Bern-Mittelland
Swiss town.postal_code: 3158
Swiss town.municipality_code: 0852
Swiss town.area: 54.9
Swiss town.elevation: 1115
Swiss town.population: 1538
Swiss town.populationof: Dec 2011
Swiss town.popofyear: 2011
Swiss town.website: www.gemeinde-guggisberg.ch
Swiss town.mayor: Robin Habenbacher
Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities: Alterswil (FR), Oberwil im Simmental, Plaffeien (FR), Rüschegg, Schwarzenburg

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Guggisberg (Bernese German Guggishbärg ) is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the Swiss canton of Bern.

==History== Guggisberg is first mentioned in 1076 as Mons Guchani. The next earliest reference to the community dates from 1148, when Guggisberg (spelled Cucansperc) was mentioned in a document of Pope Eugene III. In 1423 the territory was divided in two and sold by Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy to Bern and Fribourg. It would remain as two separate entitites until reunified by Napoleon's Act of Mediation in 1803.

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