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Habkern
Sign in to saveHabkern is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The municipality includes the settlements of Bohlseiten, Bort, Schwendi and Mittelbäuert.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Habkern
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Habkern-Mittelbaeuert.jpg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Habkern Flag.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Habkern COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Interlaken-Oberhasli
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3804
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0579
- Swiss town.area
- 51.1
- Swiss town.elevation
- 1055
- Swiss town.population
- 638
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2010
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2010
- Swiss town.website
- www.habkern.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Walter Zurbuchen
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Schangnau, Flühli (LU), Oberried am Brienzersee, Niederried bei Interlaken, Unterseen, Beatenberg and Eriz
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Habkern is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The municipality includes the settlements of Bohlseiten, Bort, Schwendi and Mittelbäuert.
==Origin of the name== The name Habkern comes from the Old High German word habuh (“hawk”) and the ending -arra, indicating that something is in large numbers. Habkern is thus “”the place where there are many hawks”.