Trachselwald
Sign in to saveTrachselwald 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
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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.