Canton of Bern
Bern-Mittelland
Schwarzenburg District

Wahlern

Wahlern is a former municipality of the canton of Bern in and seat of the . On 1 January 2011, the former municipalities of Wahlern and merged in the new municipality of .
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  • Type: Village with 6,210 residents
  • Description: former municipality of Switzerland in Bern
  • Also known as: “Walern”
  • Postal code: 3150
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Reformierte Kirche Wahlern and Schwarzenburg railway station.

Church
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is a church.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of , in the canton of . It is the southern terminus of the standard gauge Bern–Schwarzenburg line of BLS AG.

Castle
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is a castle in the municipality of of the in . It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Schwarzenburg and Albligen.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of in the canton of in . It was created on 1 January 2011 through the merger of the municipalities of Wahlern and .

Village
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is a former municipality in the in the canton of in . On 1 January 2011, the former municipalities of Wahlern and merged into the new municipality of . is situated 4 km northwest of Wahlern.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg in . It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg. is situated 4 km west of Wahlern.

Wahlern

Latitude
46.82706° or 46° 49′ 37″ north
Longitude
7.35307° or 7° 21′ 11″ east
Population
6,210
Elevation
825 metres (2,707 feet)
Open location code
8FR9R9G3+R6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240126153
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2658076
Wiki­data ID
Q869534
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Western Panjabi—“Wahlern” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Wahlern”
  • Cebuano: “Wahlern”
  • Chuvash: “Валерн”
  • Dutch: “Wahlern”
  • Esperanto: “Wahlern”
  • French: “Wahlern”
  • German: “Wahlern”
  • Irish: “Wahlern”
  • Italian: “Wahlern”
  • Japanese: “ヴァーレルン”
  • Lombard: “Wahlern”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wahlern”
  • Piemontese: “Wahlern”
  • Portuguese: “Wahlern”
  • Russian: “Валерн”
  • Spanish: “Wahlern”
  • Swedish: “Wahlern”
  • Turkish: “Wahlern”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wahlern”
  • Vietnamese: “Wahlern”
  • Volapük: “Wahlern”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wahlern”
  • Western Panjabi: “واہلرن”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wahlern”. Photo: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0.