Burgäschisee

Burgäschisee is a lake near Aeschi in Switzerland, on the border of the cantons of Bern and Solothurn. The lake has a surface of 21 ha and a maximum depth of 36 m. In 1941 and 1943, the water level was lowered by 2 m. The current surface elevation is 465 m.

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Type: Lake
Description: lake in Aeschi in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland
Also known as: “Burgäschisee (prähistorische Seeufersiedlung)” and “lake Burgäschi (prehistoric lakeside settlement)”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Anna catholic church and Herzogenbuchsee railway station.

St. Anna catholic church

Church

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Herzogenbuchsee railway station

Railway station

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Herzogenbuchsee railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Herzogenbuchsee, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Olten–Bern line of Swiss Federal Railways. Herzogenbuchsee railway station is situated 3 km northeast of Burgäschisee.

Unterer Dorfbrunnen (1898)

Fountain

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Unterer Dorfbrunnen (1898) is a fountain, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Burgäschisee.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aeschi and Steinhof.

Aeschi

Village

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Aeschi is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. Burgäschisee is a lake in the forest on the border with Seeberg.

Steinhof

Village

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Steinhof is a former municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is an enclave in the canton of Bern. The municipality of Steinhof merged on 1 January 2012 into the municipality of Aeschi.

Seeberg

Village

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Seeberg is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The lake Burgäschisee is located on the border with Aeschi. On 1 January 2016 the former municipality of Hermiswil merged into Seeberg.

Burgäschisee

Categories: kettle and body of water
Location: Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude

47.16976° or 47° 10′ 11″ north

Longitude

7.66854° or 7° 40′ 7″ east

Elevation

467 metres (1,532 feet)

Open location code

8FV95M99+WC

GeoNames ID

6691359

Wikidata ID

Q689876

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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Burgäschisee” goes by many names.

Bulgarian: “Бургаесчисе”
Cebuano: “Burgaeschisee”
Chinese: “布蓋希湖”
Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره بورجاسكيسى”
French: “lac de Burgäschi”
French: “Lac de Burgäschi”
German: “Burgäschisee (prähistorische Seeufersiedlung)”
German: “Burgäschisee”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Burgäschisee”
Portuguese: “Lago Burgäschisee”
Swedish: “Burgaeschisee”

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