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Also known as Oberstocken BE

Oberstocken is a former municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Oberstocken, Niederstocken and Höfen merged into the new municipality of Stocken-Höfen.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name
Oberstocken
Swiss town.municipality_type
former
Swiss town.image_photo
Oberstocken-von-Stockhorn.jpg
Swiss town.image_caption
Oberstocken village from the peak of the Stockhorn
Swiss town.imagepath_coa
CHE Oberstocken COA.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_flag
CHE Oberstocken Flag.svg
Swiss town.canton
Bern
Swiss town.iso code region
CH-BE
Swiss town.district
Thun
Swiss town.postal_code
3632
Swiss town.municipality_code
0765
Swiss town.area
4.1
Swiss town.elevation
691
Swiss town.population
277
Swiss town.populationof
Dec 2011
Swiss town.popofyear
2011
Swiss town.website
www.oberstocken.ch
Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
Därstetten, Erlenbach im Simmental, Höfen, Niederstocken, Pohlern

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
village
Located in
Canton of Berne
Official language
German
Area
4.12
Elevation
691
Official website
www.oberstocken.ch
Image
Oberstocken-von-Stockhorn.jpg
Dialing code
033
Licence plate code
BE
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Commons category
Oberstocken
postal code
3632
replaced by
Stocken-Höfen
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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Geography
  • Coat of arms
  • Demographics
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Religion
  • Education
  • Civil Defense
  • References

Oberstocken is a former municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Oberstocken, Niederstocken and Höfen merged into the new municipality of Stocken-Höfen.

==History== thumb|Aerial view of Amsoldinger Lake, Höfen and Oberstocken (1952)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oberstocken” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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