Sutz-Lattrigen
Sutz-Lattrigen is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is home to a number of Neolithic and Bronze Age lake shore archeological sites, including one that is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Sutz-Lattrigen
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Flugaufnahme Sutz-Lattrigen.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Aerial view of Sutz and Lattrigen villages
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Sutz-Lattrigen COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Sutz-Lattrigen Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Biel/Bienne
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 2572
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0750
- Swiss town.area
- 3.6
Article
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- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
- World Heritage Site
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Education
- References
Sutz-Lattrigen is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is home to a number of Neolithic and Bronze Age lake shore archeological sites, including one that is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
==History== thumb|left|Information board at Sutz-Lattrigen showing many of the prehistoric sites in the municipality. thumb|left|upright|Sutz-Lattrigen village church The municipality is situated on the shore of Lake Biel. In 2007, the remains of the oldest known building in Switzerland – a pile dwelling dated to 3863 BC – were discovered in the lake near Sutz-Lattrigen. The shoreline was occupied by a Corded ware culture settlement through the Neolithic and into the Bronze Age. In 2011 the remains of the settlement was included in an UNESCO World Heritage Site.