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.
- Type: Village with 3,280 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Brinco”, “Engi”, “Giessbach”, “Kienholz”, “Schwendi”, and “布里恩茲”
- Postal code: 3855
- Neighbors: Grindelwald and Meiringen
Places of Interest
Highlights: Church and Rectory and Giessbach.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schwanden bei Brienz and Hofstetten bei Brienz.
Hofstetten bei Brienz
Village
Axalp
Village
Photo: Hadi, Public domain.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″ north
Longitude
8.0303° or 8° 1′ 49″ east
Population
3,280
Elevation
563 metres (1,847 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CH BEZ
Open location code
8FRCQ24J+C4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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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”
- Chuvash: “Бриенц”
- Czech: “Brienz”
- Dutch: “Brienz”
- Esperanto: “Brienz BE”
- 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: “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”
- Swiss German: “Brienz BE”
- Thai: “เบรียนทซ์”
- Turkish: “Brienz”
- Ukrainian: “Брієнц”
- Upper Sorbian: “Brienz”
- Urdu: “برینز”
- Venetian: “Brienz”
- Vietnamese: “Brienz”
- Volapük: “Brienz”
- Waray (Philippines): “Brienz”
- Welsh: “Brienz”
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