Trachselwald
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Trachselwald is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the Swiss canton of Bern.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Trachselwald
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Trachselwald COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Trachselwald Flag.svg
- Swiss town.image_photo
- 2012-03-04-Trachselwald (Foto Dietrich Michael Weidmann) 072.JPG
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Emmental
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3456
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0958
- Swiss town.area
- 15.98
- Swiss town.elevation
- 685
- Swiss town.lowest_m
- 660
- Swiss town.highest_m
- 1200
- Swiss town.population
- 995
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2012
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2012
- Swiss town.website
- www.trachselwald.ch
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Trachselwald
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Berne
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 977
- Area
- 15.96
- Elevation
- 685
- Capital of
- Trachselwald District
- Official website
- www.trachselwald.ch
- Image
- 2012-03-04-Trachselwald (Foto Dietrich Michael Weidmann) 072.JPG
- Dialing code
- 034
- Licence plate code
- BE
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- Commons category
- Trachselwald
- postal code
- 3456
- P8168
- Blackberry Township
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/958
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Economy
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Politics
- Religion
- Education
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Trachselwald is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the Swiss canton of Bern.
== History == thumb|left|Trachselwald Castle The name of this municipality means "Drechsler-Wald" ("Woodturner-Forest) and was first mentioned in 1131 as Trahselwalt. The village around Trachselwald Castle first belonged to the barons of Trachselwald, then to the barons of Rüti bei Lyssach, and then finally to the barons of Sumiswald until the sovereignty over the village was sold to the city of Bern in 1408. The castle became the sheriffhood.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Trachselwald” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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