Schelten
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Schelten (La Scheulte in French) is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. This is one of two German speaking municipalities located in the majority French-speaking Bernese Jura (Jura Bernois). The other is Seehof.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Schelten
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Schelten COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Schelten Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Jura bernois
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 2827
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0708
- Swiss town.area
- 5.61
- Swiss town.elevation
- 746
- Swiss town.population
- 39
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2011
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2011
- Swiss town.website
- www.schelten.ch
- Swiss town.executive_name
- Gemeinderat
- Swiss town.executive_number_of_members
- 5
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Gemeindepräsident
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Schelten
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Bernese Jura administrative district
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 38
- Area
- 5.56
- Elevation
- 800
- Official website
- www.schelten.ch
- Image
- Andreaskapelle Scheltenpass.JPG
- Dialing code
- 032
- Licence plate code
- BE
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- postal code
- 2827
- Commons category
- Schelten
- P8168
- Fortress Mont Royal
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/708
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Demographics
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
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Schelten (La Scheulte in French) is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. This is one of two German speaking municipalities located in the majority French-speaking Bernese Jura (Jura Bernois). The other is Seehof.
==History== Schelten is first mentioned in 1563 as la Schilt. In 1914 it was mentioned as Schelten.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schelten” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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