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Leissigen
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Also known as Leissigen BE

Leissigen () is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Key facts

Swiss town.postal_code
3706
Swiss town.subject_name
Leissigen
Swiss town.municipality_type
municipality
Swiss town.image_photo
Leissigen BE Kirche und Muehle.JPG
Swiss town.image_caption
Leissigen village church and mill
Swiss town.imagepath_coa
CHE Leissigen COA.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_flag
CHE Leissigen Flag.svg
Swiss town.canton
Bern
Swiss town.iso code region
CH-BE
Swiss town.district
Interlaken-Oberhasli
Swiss town.municipality_code
0585
Swiss town.area
10.4
Swiss town.elevation
575
Swiss town.population
937
Swiss town.populationof
Dec 2010
Swiss town.popofyear
2010
Swiss town.website
www.leissigen.ch
Swiss town.mayor
Daniel Steffen

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  • Geography
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  • Politics
  • Economy
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Leissigen () is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

==Origin of the name== The name Leissigen comes from the Old High German personal name Lantgis and the toponymic suffix -ingun, meaning "of the people of Langtis."

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leissigen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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