Ferenbalm

Also known as Ferenbalm BE, Feren-Balm

Ferenbalm () is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name: Ferenbalm
Swiss town.image_photo: 2012-04-26 Sense-Sarino (Foto Dietrich Michael Weidmann) 204.JPG
Swiss town.municipality_type: municipality
Swiss town.imagepath_coa: CHE Ferenbalm COA.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_flag: CHE Ferenbalm Flag.svg
Swiss town.canton: Bern
Swiss town.iso code region: CH-BE
Swiss town.district: Bern-Mittelland
Swiss town.postal_code: 3206
Swiss town.municipality_code: 0662
Swiss town.area: 9.18
Swiss town.elevation: 485
Swiss town.population: 1252
Swiss town.populationof: Dec 2011
Swiss town.popofyear: 2011
Swiss town.website: www.ferenbalm.ch
Swiss town.mayor: Ulrich Rohrbach
Swiss town.mayor_asof: 2008

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Demographics
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Ferenbalm () is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

==History== thumb|upright|left|The village church of Ferenbalm, rebuilt after a fire in 1657. Ferenbalm is first mentioned in 1123 as villa de Balmis. Since the 16th century it was called Feren-Balm to differenate it from Oberbalm.

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