
Frutigen
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Frutigen () is a municipality in the Bernese Oberland area of the Swiss canton of Bern. It is the capital of the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Frutigen
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Frutigen-BE.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Frutigen COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Frutigen Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Frutigen-Niedersimmental
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3714
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0563
- Swiss town.area
- 71.8
- Swiss town.elevation
- 800
- Swiss town.population
- 6718
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2010
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2010
- Swiss town.website
- www.frutigen.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Adelboden, Diemtigen, Kandergrund, Kandersteg, Reichenbach im Kandertal
- Swiss town.twintowns
- Teteven (Bulgaria)
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Gemeinde Frutigen
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Frutigen
- Population
- 6923
- Area
- 72.28
- Elevation
- 918
- Official website
- www.frutigen.ch
- Image
- Frutigen Ortsansicht 01 09.jpg
- Dialing code
- 033
- Licence plate code
- BE
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- Commons category
- Frutigen
- postal code
- 3714
- P8168
- Björn Michel
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/563
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Frutigen () is a municipality in the Bernese Oberland area of the Swiss canton of Bern. It is the capital of the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district.
==History== thumb|upright|left|Ruins of Tellenburg Castle thumb|left|Photochrome postcard of Frutigen thumb|left|Aerial view (1967) The area around Frutigen may have been settled since possibly the Bronze Age or Roman Empire times. It is first mentioned in 1234 as Frutingen.
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