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Frutigen
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Also known as Frutigen BE

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.

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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)

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Official website

Gemeinde Frutigen

frutigen.ch

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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
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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