Brienz
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,280 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Brienz BE”
- Postal code: 3855
- Neighbors: Grindelwald and Meiringen
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church and Rectory and Brienz West railway station.
Brienz West railway station
Railway stop
Brienz West railway station is a Swiss railway station in the municipality of Brienz and the canton of Bern. Brienz West is a stop on the Brünig line, owned by the Zentralbahn, that operates between Interlaken and Lucerne.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hofstetten bei Brienz and Axalp.
Hofstetten bei Brienz
Village
Photo: Noemieki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hofstetten bei Brienz is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Hofstetten bei Brienz is situated 3½ km east of Brienz.
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 4 km south of Brienz.
Brienz
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Interlaken-Oberhasli, Canton of Bern, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.756° or 46° 45′ 22″ northLongitude
8.0303° or 8° 1′ 49″ eastPopulation
3,280Elevation
563 metres (1,847 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH BEZOpen location code
8FRCQ24J+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 240048614OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Brienz” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Brienz (BE)”
- Albanian: “Brienz”
- Armenian: “Բրինց”
- Basque: “Brienz (BE)”
- Basque: “Brienz”
- Breton: “Brienz”
- Bulgarian: “Бриенц”
- Catalan: “Brienz”
- Cebuano: “Brienz”
- Chinese: “布里恩茨”
- Chinese: “布里恩茲”
- Chuvash: “Бриенц”
- Czech: “Brienz”
- Dutch: “Brienz”
- Esperanto: “Brienz BE”
- Esperanto: “Brinco”
- Esperanto: “Engi”
- Esperanto: “Giessbach”
- Esperanto: “Kienholz”
- Esperanto: “Schwendi”
- Estonian: “Brienz”
- French: “Brienz”
- Galician: “Brienz”
- German: “Brienz BE”
- German: “Brienz”
- Hebrew: “ברינץ”
- Hungarian: “Brienz (BE)”
- Irish: “Brienz”
- Italian: “Brienz”
- Japanese: “ブリエンツ”
- Kazakh: “Бриенц”
- Korean: “브리엔츠”
- Latin: “Brienz”
- Latin: “Brienzola”
- Lombard: “Brienz”
- Luxembourgish: “Brienz BE”
- Luxembourgish: “Brienz”
- Macedonian: “Бриенц”
- Malay: “Brienz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brienz”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brienz”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Brienz”
- Persian: “برینز”
- Piemontese: “Brienz”
- Polish: “Brienz”
- Portuguese: “Brienz”
- Romanian: “Brienz”
- Romansh: “Brienz”
- Russian: “Бриенц”
- Russian: “Брие́нц”
- Russian: “Бринц”
- Scots: “Brienz”
- Sicilian: “Brienz”
- Spanish: “Brienz”
- Swedish: “Brienz”
- Swiss German: “Briens”
- Thai: “เบรียนทซ์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Brienz BE”
- Turkish: “Brienz”
- Ukrainian: “Брієнц”
- Upper Sorbian: “Brienz”
- Venetian: “Brienz”
- Vietnamese: “Brienz”
- Volapük: “Brienz”
- Waray (Philippines): “Brienz”
- Welsh: “Brienz”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Brienz”. Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.