Surpierre
Surpierre is a municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. In January 2005 Surpierre incorporated the formerly independent municipality of Praratoud, in January 2017 Surpierre incorporated Villeneuve and in January 2021 it incorporated Cheiry.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,230 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Also known as: “CH2044” and “Surpierre FR”
- Postal code: 1528
Places of Interest
Highlights include Baillival Castle and Granges-Marnand railway station.
Baillival Castle
Castle
Photo: WWHenderson20, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Baillival Castle is a bailiff's castle in the municipality of Surpierre of the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Granges-Marnand railway station
Railway station
Photo: Christophe95, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Granges-Marnand railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Valbroye, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Palézieux–Lyss line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Henniez railway station
Railway stop
Henniez railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Henniez, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Palézieux–Lyss line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lucens and Henniez.
Lucens
Photo: Papillon124, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lucens is a city in the Jura region of Western Switzerland. It has its place in Swiss history as the location of an experimental nuclear reactor which was destroyed in a partial meltdown in 1969, Switzerland's most serious nuclear accident to date.
Henniez
Village
Photo: Christophe95, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Henniez is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Broye-Vully.
Cheiry
Village
Photo: Christophe95, CC0.
Cheiry is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. In 2021 the municipality of Cheiry merged into the municipality of Surpierre.
Surpierre
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Broye District, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.7446° or 46° 44′ 41″ northLongitude
6.8608° or 6° 51′ 39″ eastPopulation
1,230Elevation
659 metres (2,162 feet)Open location code
8FR8PVV6+R8OpenStreetMap ID
node 240026591OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7287267Wikidata ID
Q68606
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Surpierre” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Surpierre”
- Basque: “Surpierre”
- Breton: “Surpierre”
- Bulgarian: “Сурпиере”
- Catalan: “Surpierre”
- Cebuano: “Surpierre”
- Chinese: “Surpierre”
- Chinese: “叙皮尔”
- Chinese: “敘皮爾”
- Dutch: “Surpierre”
- Esperanto: “Surpierre”
- Esperanto: “Überstein”
- French: “Praratoud”
- French: “Surpierre”
- German: “Le Sensuis”
- German: “Soreperra”
- German: “Super Petram”
- German: “Superpetra”
- German: “Suprapetra”
- German: “Surpierre”
- German: “Überstein”
- Hungarian: “Surpierre”
- Irish: “Surpierre”
- Italian: “Surpierre”
- Lombard: “Surpierre”
- Malay: “Surpierre”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Surpierre”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Surpierre”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Surpierre”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Surpierre”
- Polish: “Surpierre”
- Portuguese: “Surpierre”
- Romansh: “Surpierre”
- Spanish: “Surpierre”
- Swedish: “Surpierre”
- Swiss German: “Surpierre”
- Tosk Albanian: “Surpierre”
- Turkish: “Surpierre”
- Ukrainian: “Сюрп’єр”
- Upper Sorbian: “Surpierre”
- Venetian: “Surpierre”
- Vietnamese: “Surpierre”
- Volapük: “Surpierre”
- Waray (Philippines): “Surpierre”
- Welsh: “Surpierre”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Surpierre”. Photo: Mbarbey49, CC BY-SA 3.0.