Wimmis
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Wimmis () is a municipality in the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Wimmis
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Wimmis COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Wimmis Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Frutigen-Niedersimmental
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3752
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0769
- Swiss town.area
- 22.3
- Swiss town.elevation
- 629
- Swiss town.population
- 2463
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2011
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2011
- Swiss town.website
- www.wimmis.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Aeschi bei Spiez, Diemtigen, Erlenbach im Simmental, Reichenbach im Kandertal, Reutigen, Spiez
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Wimmis
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Niedersimmental District
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 2537
- Area
- 22.35
- Elevation
- 1039
- Capital of
- Niedersimmental District
- Shares border with
- Reichenbach im Kandertal
- Official website
- www.wimmis.ch
- Image
- Fruhling wimmis 02.jpg
- Dialing code
- 033
- Licence plate code
- BE
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- Commons category
- Wimmis
- postal code
- 3752
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/769
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Transport
- Climate
- Education
- References
- External links
Wimmis () is a municipality in the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
==History== thumb|left|Wimmis church and castle thumb|left|Engraving of Niesen mountain and Wimmis from around 1783, engraved by the Swiss painter Ludwig Aberli (1723-1786) thumb|left|Aerial view from 800 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919) Wimmis is first mentioned in 994 as Windemis.
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