Zweisimmen

Also known as Zweisimmen BE

Zweisimmen (Highest Alemannic: Zwüüsimme) is a municipality in the Obersimmental-Saanen administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Swiss town.subject_name: Zweisimmen
Swiss town.image_photo: Bahnhof Zweisimmen-20140517.jpg
Swiss town.image_caption: The railway station with the Rinderberg in background
Swiss town.municipality_type: municipality
Swiss town.imagepath_coa: CHE Zweisimmen COA.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_flag: CHE Zweisimmen Flag.svg
Swiss town.canton: Bern
Swiss town.iso code region: CH-BE
Swiss town.district: Obersimmental-Saanen
Swiss town.postal_code: 3770
Swiss town.municipality_code: 0794
Swiss town.area: 73.1
Swiss town.elevation: 947
Swiss town.lowest_m: 880
Swiss town.highest_m: 2476
Swiss town.population: 2947
Swiss town.populationof: Dec 2011
Swiss town.popofyear: 2011

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Zweisimmen
Population: 3018
Area: 73
Elevation: 934
Official website: www.zweisimmen.ch
Image: ABt 343 - Be 4-4 5003 - Bt 243 im Bahnhof Zweisimmen neben der Rollbockgrube.jpg
Dialing code: 033
Licence plate code: BE

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Commons category: Zweisimmen
postal code: 3770
external data available at URL: geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/794
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Zweisimmen (Highest Alemannic: Zwüüsimme) is a municipality in the Obersimmental-Saanen administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

==History== thumb|left|Blankenburg Castle, seat of the Bernese administrator 1386-1798 thumb|left|Ruins of the Lower Mannenberg Castle Zweisimmen is first mentioned in 1228 as Duessimenes. In 1257 it was mentioned as Zweinlixhenun.