File:1_wengen_2012.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Wengen BE
Sign in to saveAlso known as Wengen, Switzerland
thumb|The Wengeralpbahn leading into the town. The [[Jungfrau is visible in the background. ]] Wengen () is a mountain village in the Bernese Oberland of central Switzerland. Located in the canton of Bern at an elevation of above sea level, it is part of the Jungfrauregion and has approximately 1,300 year-round residents, which swells to 5,000 during summer and to 10,000 in the winter. Wengen hosts the classic Lauberhorn ski races of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup in January.
OverviewAI-generated
Wengen is a village and carfree city located in the municipality of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. It is situated in the canton of Bern at an elevation of 1,274 meters above sea level. The settlement covers an area of 36.4 square kilometers and has a population of 1,116. Its postal code is 3823, and it uses the local dialing code 033. The license plate code for the region is BE.
Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Openweathermap, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Open Meteo, Vinony graph, Geo. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Weather now
cached 348h ago7-day forecast
via Open-Meteo
Place details
- Locality
- Wengen
- Region
- Bern/Berne
- Country
- Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra
- Population
- 0
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Wengen
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Wengen COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- Wengen Flag.jpg
- Swiss town.image_photo
- 1 wengen 2012.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Wengen in June 2012
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Interlaken-Oberhasli
- Swiss town.within_municipality
- Lauterbrunnen
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3823
- Swiss town.population
- 1300
- Swiss town.populationof
- year-round
- Swiss town.area
- 36.4
- Swiss town.elevation
- 1274
via Wikipedia infobox
~9 min read
Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Churches
- Politics
- Transport
- Recreation
- Culture
- Footnotes
- Sources
- External links
thumb|The Wengeralpbahn leading into the town. The [[Jungfrau is visible in the background. ]] Wengen () is a mountain village in the Bernese Oberland of central Switzerland. Located in the canton of Bern at an elevation of above sea level, it is part of the Jungfrauregion and has approximately 1,300 year-round residents, which swells to 5,000 during summer and to 10,000 in the winter. Wengen hosts the classic Lauberhorn ski races of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup in January.
==History== Wengen was first mentioned in official documents in 1268, and the origin of the name is unknown.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wengen BE” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (20)
On the map
3 mapped locations