Sorvilier
Also known as Sorvilier BE
Sorvilier (Frainc-Comtou: Sorvelie) 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).
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Sorvilier
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- SorvilierBirse2014.JPG
- Swiss town.image_caption
- The river Birs and the railroad station in Sorvilier
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Sorvilier COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Sorvilier Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Jura bernois
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 2736
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0711
- Swiss town.area
- 7.02
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Sorvilier (Frainc-Comtou: Sorvelie) 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).
==History== thumb|Aerial view (1955) Sorvilier is first mentioned in 1148 as Sorurvilier, though this comes from a 12th-century forgery. In 1179 it was mentioned as Sororviler. The municipality was formerly known by its German name Surbelen, however, that name is no longer used.
On the map
2 mapped locations