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Orpund
Sign in to saveOrpund is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Orpund
- Swiss town.image_photo
- 2012-05-26-Seeland (Foto Dietrich Michael Weidmann) 171.JPG
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Gotthouse Monastery Church in Orpund
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Orpund COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Orpund Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Biel/Bienne
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 2552
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0744
- Swiss town.area
- 4.0
- Swiss town.elevation
- 483
- Swiss town.population
- 2628
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2011
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2011
- Swiss town.website
- www.orpund.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Biel/Bienne, Brügg, Safnern, Scheuren, Schwadernau
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Orpund is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
==History== thumb|left|upright|Interior of the Gottstatt Monastery church. thumb|left|Aerial view of Gottstatt and Orpund (1950) Orpund is first mentioned in 1255 as Orpunt. The municipality was formerly known by its unknown name er Orpondes, however, that name is no longer used.