Zweisimmen
Sign in to saveZweisimmen (Highest Alemannic: Zwüüsimme) is a municipality in the Obersimmental-Saanen administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Zweisimmen
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Bahnhof Zweisimmen-20140517.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- The railway station with the Rinderberg in background
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Zweisimmen COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Zweisimmen Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Obersimmental-Saanen
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3770
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0794
- Swiss town.area
- 73.1
- Swiss town.elevation
- 947
- Swiss town.lowest_m
- 880
- Swiss town.highest_m
- 2476
- Swiss town.population
- 2947
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2011
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2011
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Zweisimmen (Highest Alemannic: Zwüüsimme) is a municipality in the Obersimmental-Saanen administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
==History== thumb|left|Blankenburg Castle, seat of the Bernese administrator 1386-1798 thumb|left|Ruins of the Lower Mannenberg Castle Zweisimmen is first mentioned in 1228 as Duessimenes. In 1257 it was mentioned as Zweinlixhenun.