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Wengen BE
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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.
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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 3 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Wengen BE is referenced by 236 other articles, and connects out to Lauterbrunnen, Wengernalp railway and Lauterbrunnen–Mürren mountain railway.
Vinony files it under Bernese Oberland, Car-free villages in Switzerland and Ski areas and resorts in Switzerland.
Its subject is documented across 35 Wikipedia language editions.
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cached 229h agoPlace details
- Locality
- Wengen
- Region
- Bern/Berne
- Country
- Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra
- Population
- 0
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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
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 1116
- Area
- 36.4
- Elevation
- 1274
- Official website
- www.lauterbrunnen.ch
- Image
- 1 wengen 2012.jpg
- Dialing code
- 033
- Licence plate code
- BE
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- Commons category
- Wengen (Switzerland)
- postal code
- 3823
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Churches
- Politics
- Transport
- Recreation
- Culture
- Footnotes
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- 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.
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