Schwarzenburg District
Schwarzenburg District is one of the 26 administrative districts in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its capital, while having administrative power, was the town of Schwarzenburg, located in the municipality of Wahlern.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 6,740 residents
- Description: former district of the canton of Bern
- Also known as: “Amtsbezirk Schwarzenburg” and “CH0855”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Schwarzenburg Castle and Schwarzenburg railway station.
Schwarzenburg Castle
Castle
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Schwarzenburg Castle is a castle in the municipality of Schwarzenburg of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Schwarzenburg railway station
Railway station
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Schwarzenburg railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Schwarzenburg, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is the southern terminus of the standard gauge Bern–Schwarzenburg line of BLS AG.
Grasburg Castle
Castle
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Grasburg Castle is a ruined castle in the municipality of Schwarzenburg of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is the largest castle ruin in the Canton of Bern. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schwarzenburg and Wahlern.
Schwarzenburg
Village
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Schwarzenburg is a municipality in the district of Bern-Mittelland in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It was created on 1 January 2011 through the merger of the municipalities of Wahlern and Albligen.
Wahlern
Village
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Wahlern is a former municipality of the canton of Bern in Switzerland and seat of the Bern-Mittelland administrative district. On 1 January 2011, the former municipalities of Wahlern and Albligen merged in the new municipality of Schwarzenburg.
Heitenried
Village
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Heitenried is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.
Schwarzenburg District
- Category: former district of the canton of Bern
- Location: Bern-Mittelland, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Vietnamese—“Schwarzenburg District” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Amtsbeziak Schwarzenburg”
- Catalan: “districte de Schwarzenburg”
- Catalan: “Districte de Schwarzenburg”
- Chinese: “Schwarzenburg Koān”
- Chuvash: “Шварценбург”
- Dutch: “Schwarzenburg”
- Esperanto: “Amtsbezirk Schwarzenburg”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Schwarzenburg”
- Esperanto: “Schwarzenburg”
- Esperanto: “Schwarzenburgerland”
- French: “district de Schwarzenburg”
- French: “District de Schwarzenburg”
- German: “Amtsbezirk Schwarzenburg”
- German: “Bezirk Schwarzenburg”
- German: “Schwarzenburg”
- German: “Schwarzenburgerland”
- Italian: “distretto di Schwarzenburg”
- Italian: “Distretto di Schwarzenburg”
- Japanese: “シュヴァルツェンブルク郡”
- Latin: “Schwarzenburg”
- Lombard: “Schwarzenburg”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Schwarzenburg Koān”
- Russian: “Шварценбург”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Schwarzenburg”
- Swedish: “Schwarzenburg”
- Swiss German: “Bezirk Schwarzeburg”
- Tosk Albanian: “Bezirk Schwarzenburg”
- Vietnamese: “Schwarzenburg”
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