Kandergrund
Kandergrund is a village in Kandergrund, Frutigen-Niedersimmental, Canton of Bern and has about 945 residents and an elevation of 808 metres. Kandergrund is situated nearby to the locality Büelweid, as well as near Büelmatta.- Type: Village with 945 residents
- Also known as: “Kendergrund”
- Postal code: 3716
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kandergrund power station and Blausee.
Kandergrund power station
Industrial building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kandergrund power station is an industrial building.
Blausee
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Blausee is a lake in Bernese Oberland, Kandergrund, Switzerland. It is located near the Kander river. The lake has an elevation of 887 metres and an area of 0.64 hectares.
Felsenburg
Castle
Photo: Ba-glauchau, Public domain.
Felsenburg Castle is a ruined castle in the municipality of Kandergrund of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mitholz and Kandersteg.
Mitholz
Hamlet
Photo: Draemmli, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mitholz or Blausee-Mitholz is a village in Kandergrund municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, with 170 inhabitants as of 2020. Blausee-Mitholz is a station on the Lötschberg railway line.
Kandersteg
Frutigen
Photo: Chriusha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Frutigen is a town of 6,900 people in the Swiss Canton of Berne and the site of the northern portal of the Lötschberg-Base-Tunnel that opened for railway traffic in 2007.
Kandergrund
- Category: locality
- Location: Kandergrund, Frutigen-Niedersimmental, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.5423° or 46° 32′ 32″ northLongitude
7.66237° or 7° 39′ 45″ eastPopulation
945Elevation
808 metres (2,651 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH KDGOpen location code
8FR9GMR6+WWOpenStreetMap ID
node 240109258OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2660192
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Russian—“Kandergrund” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “坎德格倫德”
- Kazakh: “Кандергрунд”
- Russian: “Кандергрунд”
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