Ballenberg
Ballenberg is an open-air museum in Switzerland that displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country. Located near Brienz in the municipality of Hofstetten bei Brienz, Canton of Bern, Ballenberg has over 100 original buildings that have been transported from their original sites.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Park
- Description: open-air museum in Brienzwiler and Hofstetten near Brienz in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Open-air Museum Ballenberg” and “Schweizerisches Freilichtmuseum Ballenberg (vgl. Brienzwiler/BE)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brienzwiler railway station and Meiringen Air Base.
Brienzwiler railway station
Railway station
Brienzwiler railway station is a Swiss railway station in the municipality of Brienzwiler and the canton of Bern. Brienzwiler is a stop on the Brünig line, owned by the Zentralbahn, that operates between Interlaken and Lucerne.
Meiringen Air Base
Aerodrome
Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Meiringen Air Base, also known as the Unterbach Military Airfield, is a Swiss military airbase located near the hamlet of Unterbach and the town of Meiringen, in the canton of Bern.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brienzwiler and Brienz.
Brienzwiler
Village
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Brienzwiler is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Besides the village of Brienzwiler, the municipality also includes the settlement of Balmhof.
Brienz
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Brienz is located in the Bernese Oberland area of Switzerland at the opposite end of Brienzersee to Interlaken. It is a small village with approximately 3000 inhabitants. Brienz is famous as the Swiss centre for woodcarving.
Axalp
Village
Photo: Hadi, Public domain.
Axalp is a high alpine pasture in the Bernese Oberland, on the northern slope of Axalphorn, overlooking Lake Brienz, today part of Brienz municipality. Axalp is situated 5 km southwest of Ballenberg.
Ballenberg
- Categories: ethnographic museum, memory institution, and open-air museum
- Location: Hofstetten bei Brienz, Interlaken-Oberhasli, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Ballenberg” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Freilichtmuseum Ballenberg”
- Chinese: “巴伦伯格露天博物馆”
- Chinese: “巴伦贝格生态博物馆”
- Chinese: “巴倫伯格露天博物館”
- Chinese: “巴倫貝格生態博物館”
- Czech: “Ballenberg”
- Dutch: “Ballenberg”
- Esperanto: “Ballenberg”
- French: “Ballenberg”
- French: “Musee suisse de l’habitat rural”
- French: “musée suisse de l’habitat rural”
- French: “Musée suisse de l’habitat rural”
- French: “Musée suisse en plein air de Ballenberg”
- German: “Ballenberg Freilichtmuseum der Schweiz”
- German: “Freilichtmuseum Ballenberg”
- German: “Schweizerisches Freilichtmuseum Ballenberg (vgl. Brienzwiler/BE)”
- Italian: “Freilichtmuseum Ballenberg”
- Italian: “Museo all’aperto Ballenberg”
- Japanese: “バレンベルク野外博物館”
- Spanish: “Ballenberg”
- Swedish: “Freilichtmuseum Ballenberg”
- Ukrainian: “Музей під відкритим небом Балленберг”
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