Pontenet
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Pontenet is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura (Jura Bernois). On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Bévilard, Malleray and Pontenet merged to form the new municipality of Valbirse.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Pontenet
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Vue sur Malleray.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Looking across the fields toward Pontenet village
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Pontenet COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Pontenet Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Jura bernois
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 2733
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0702
- Swiss town.area
- 2.74
- Swiss town.elevation
- 741
- Swiss town.population
- 216
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2011
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2011
- Swiss town.website
- www.valbirse.ch
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Maire
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Encyclopedic overview
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Pontenet is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura (Jura Bernois). On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Bévilard, Malleray and Pontenet merged to form the new municipality of Valbirse.
==History== Pontenet is first mentioned in 1359 as Pontenat.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pontenet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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