Sornetan
Sornetan is a former municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura.Photo: Thierry A., CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 139 residents
- Description: village and former municipality in Petit-Val in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Sornetan BE”
- Postal code: 2716
Places of Interest
Highlights include Reformed Church and Moron.
Moron
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Moron is a mountain of the Jura, located north of Malleray in the canton of Bern. East of the summit is located a 30-metre-high observation tower designed by Mario Botta. Moron is situated 4 km east of Sornetan.
Cave of Sainte-Colombe, archaeological site of the Bronze Age, the Roman period and the Middle Ages
Cave
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cave of Sainte-Colombe, archaeological site of the Bronze Age, the Roman period and the Middle Ages is situated 3½ km north of Sornetan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Le Pichoux and Monible.
Monible
Hamlet
Monible is a former municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura.
Châtelat
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Châtelat was a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura, however a majority of the residents in Châtelat are German speaking.
Sornetan
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Petit-Val, Bernese Jura, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.27512° or 47° 16′ 30″ northLongitude
7.21717° or 7° 13′ 2″ eastPopulation
139Elevation
839 metres (2,753 feet)Open location code
8FV976G8+2VOpenStreetMap ID
node 1559640759OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2658546Wikidata ID
Q67389
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Sornetan” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Sornetan”
- Catalan: “Sornetan”
- Cebuano: “Sornetan”
- Chinese: “索爾內坦”
- Chuvash: “Сорнетан”
- Dutch: “Sornetan”
- Esperanto: “Le Pichoux”
- Esperanto: “Sapran”
- Esperanto: “Semplain”
- Esperanto: “Sornetan”
- Esperanto: “Sornethal”
- French: “Sornetan”
- German: “Gorges du Pichoux”
- German: “Sornetain”
- German: “Sornetan”
- German: “Sornethal”
- Hungarian: “Sornetan”
- Irish: “Sornetan”
- Italian: “Sornetan”
- Kazakh: “Сорнетан”
- Lombard: “Sornetan”
- Malay: “Sornetan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sornetan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sornetan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sornetan”
- Russian: “Сорнетан”
- Spanish: “Sornetan”
- Swedish: “Sornetan”
- Swiss German: “Sornetan”
- Tosk Albanian: “Sornetan”
- Turkish: “Sornetan”
- Upper Sorbian: “Sornetan”
- Vietnamese: “Sornetan”
- Volapük: “Sornetan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sornetan”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Salle de paroisse réformée de Sornetan and Stand de tir.
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