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Frutigen

Frutigen is a town of 6,900 people in the Canton of Berne and the site of the northern portal of the Lötschberg-Base-Tunnel that opened for railway traffic in 2007.
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  • Type: Village with 6,660 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Frutigen BE”
  • Postal code: 3714
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Frutigen railway station and Tellenburg Castle.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
Frutigen is a railway station in the and municipality of Frutigen. The station is located on the Lötschberg line of the BLS AG, and is the junction point where the routes via the older Lötschberg tunnel and the more recent Lötschberg base tunnel diverge.

Castle
Photo: Chriusha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a ruined castle in the municipality of Frutigen in the in .

Church
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY 3.0.
is a church.

Frutigen

Latitude
46.5874° or 46° 35′ 15″ north
Longitude
7.6444° or 7° 38′ 40″ east
Population
6,660
Elevation
786 metres (2,579 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CH FTN
Open location code
8FR9HJPV+XQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 18477562
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2660707
Wiki­data ID
Q66208
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Frutigen” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Frutigen”
  • Basque: “Frutigen”
  • Belarusian: “Фрутыген”
  • Breton: “Frutigen”
  • Catalan: “Frutigen”
  • Cebuano: “Frutigen (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Frutigen (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Frutigen”
  • Chinese: “弗魯蒂根”
  • Chinese: “弗鲁蒂根”
  • Chuvash: “Фрутиген”
  • Czech: “Frutigen”
  • Dutch: “Frutigen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فروتيجين”
  • Esperanto: “Frutigen”
  • Esperanto: “Hasli”
  • Esperanto: “Innerschwandi”
  • Esperanto: “Kanderbrück”
  • Esperanto: “Ladholz”
  • Esperanto: “Oberfeld-Prasten”
  • Esperanto: “Reinisch”
  • Esperanto: “Winklen”
  • Finnish: “Frutigen”
  • French: “Frutigen”
  • German: “Frutenges”
  • German: “Frutigen BE”
  • German: “Frutigen”
  • Hungarian: “Frutigen”
  • Irish: “Frutigen”
  • Italian: “Frutigen”
  • Japanese: “フルティゲン”
  • Kazakh: “Фрутиген”
  • Korean: “프루티겐”
  • Lombard: “Frutigen”
  • Malay: “Frutigen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Frutigen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Frutigen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Frutigen”
  • Persian: “فروتیگن”
  • Piemontese: “Frutigen”
  • Polish: “Frutigen”
  • Portuguese: “Frutigen”
  • Russian: “Фрутиген”
  • Spanish: “Frutigen”
  • Swedish: “Frutigen”
  • Swiss German: “Frutige”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Frutigen”
  • Turkish: “Frutigen”
  • Ukrainian: “Фрутіген”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Frutigen”
  • Uzbek: “Frutigen”
  • Venetian: “Frutigen”
  • Volapük: “Frutigen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Frutigen”
  • Welsh: “Frutigen”

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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 “Frutigen”. Photo: Chriusha, CC BY-SA 3.0.