Lake Biel
Lake Biel or Lake Bienne is a lake in western Switzerland. Together with Lake Morat and Lake Neuchâtel, it is one of the three large lakes in the Jura region of Switzerland. It lies on the language boundary between German and French speaking areas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake at Biel/Bienne, Canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Bielersee”, “Lac de Bienne”, “Lake Bienne”, and “Lake of Bienne”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Twann railway station and Court Ligerz.
Twann railway station
Railway station
Twann railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Twann-Tüscherz, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Jura Foot line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Täuffelen station
Railway station
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Täuffelen station is a railway station, which is situated 2½ km southeast of Lake Biel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Twann and Bipschal.
Twann
Village
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Twann was a municipality in the district of Nidau in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010 the municipalities of Tüscherz-Alfermée and Twann merged into the municipality of Twann-Tüscherz.
Täuffelen
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Täuffelen is a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Täuffelen is situated 2½ km southeast of Lake Biel.
Lake Biel
- Categories: area not part of a municipality of Switzerland and body of water
- Location: Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Wu Chinese—“Lake Biel” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Լիճ Բիել”
- Bulgarian: “Биелерсе”
- Bulgarian: “Билско езеро”
- Catalan: “llac de Bienne”
- Catalan: “Llac de Bienne”
- Cebuano: “Bielersee”
- Chinese: “比爾湖”
- Chuvash: “Биль кӳлли”
- Czech: “Bielské jezero”
- Dutch: “Meer van Biel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره بيل”
- Esperanto: “Lago de Bielo”
- Finnish: “Bieljärvi”
- French: “lac de Bienne”
- French: “Lac de Bienne”
- Galician: “Lago de Biel/Bienne”
- Galician: “Lago de Biena”
- Georgian: “ბილის ტბა”
- German: “Bielersee”
- Hebrew: “אגם ביל”
- Hungarian: “Bieli-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Biel”
- Italian: “lago di Bienne”
- Italian: “Lago di Bienne”
- Japanese: “ビール湖”
- Korean: “빌호”
- Latin: “Lacus Erliacensis”
- Latvian: “Bīles ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Bylio ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Билско Езеро”
- Mingrelian: “ბილიშ ტობა”
- Northern Frisian: “Bieler Sia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bielsjøen”
- Polish: “Bielersee”
- Portuguese: “Lago de Bienna”
- Romanian: “Lacul Biel”
- Romansh: “Lai da Bienna”
- Russian: “Бильское озеро”
- Serbian: “Билско језеро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bienne (jezero)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bienne”
- Sicilian: “Lacu di Bienne”
- Slovak: “Bielske jazero”
- Slovenian: “Bielsko jezero”
- Spanish: “Lago de Biel/Bienne”
- Swedish: “Bielsjön”
- Swiss German: “Bielersee”
- Tosk Albanian: “Bielersee”
- Turkish: “Biel Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Біль”
- Ukrainian: “Більське озеро”
- Venetian: “Łago de Bienna”
- Welsh: “Llyn Biel”
- Wu Chinese: “比尔湖”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Twannbachschlucht and Gerolfingen station.
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