Spiez
Spiez is a town and municipality on the shore of Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss canton of Bern. It is part of the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 12,000 residents
- Description: Municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Spiez (Switzerland)” and “Spiez BE”
- Postal code: 3700
Places of Interest
Highlights include Spiez Castle and Spiez railway station.
Spiez Castle
Museum
Photo: Yesuitus2001, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Spiez Castle is a castle in the municipality of Spiez of the Swiss canton of Bern. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Spiez railway station
Railway station
Photo: Hoff1980, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Spiez is a railway station in the town of Spiez, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is on the Thunersee line of the BLS AG, which connects Thun and Interlaken, and is the junction for the same company's busy Lötschberg line, as well as the Spiez-Erlenbach-Zweisimmen line.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wimmis and Sigriswil.
Wimmis
Village
Photo: Sgruenig, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wimmis is a municipality in the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Wimmis is situated 3½ km southwest of Spiez.
Sigriswil
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sigriswil is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Sigriswil is situated 4 km northeast of Spiez.
Reutigen
Village
Photo: Rene.kernen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Reutigen is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2024 the former municipality of Zwieselberg merged to form the municipality of Reutigen. Reutigen is situated 4 km west of Spiez.
Spiez
- Categories: city of Switzerland, municipality of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Frutigen-Niedersimmental, Canton of Bern, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.6919° or 46° 41′ 31″ northLongitude
7.6775° or 7° 40′ 39″ eastPopulation
12,000Elevation
595 metres (1,952 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH SPZOpen location code
8FR9MMRG+QXOpenStreetMap ID
node 18477599OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Spiez” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Spiez”
- Arabic: “سبيز”
- Armenian: “Շպից (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Շպից”
- Basque: “Spiez”
- Belarusian: “Шпіц”
- Breton: “Spiez”
- Catalan: “Spiez”
- Cebuano: “Spiez”
- Chinese: “Spiez”
- Chinese: “施皮茨”
- Czech: “Spiez (Switzerland)”
- Czech: “Spiez”
- Danish: “Spiez”
- Dutch: “Spiez”
- Esperanto: “Spiez”
- Finnish: “Spiez”
- French: “Spiez”
- German: “Spiez (Switzerland)”
- German: “Spiez”
- Hebrew: “שפיץ”
- Hungarian: “Spiez”
- Irish: “Spiez”
- Italian: “Spiez”
- Japanese: “シュピーツ”
- Kazakh: “Шпиц”
- Korean: “슈피츠”
- Kurdish: “Spiez”
- Lithuanian: “Špycas”
- Lombard: “Spiez”
- Malay: “Spiez”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Spiez”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Spiez”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Spiez”
- Norwegian: “Spiez”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Spiez”
- Ossetian: “Шпиц (Швейцари)”
- Ossetian: “Шпиц”
- Persian: “سپیه”
- Piemontese: “Spiez”
- Polish: “Spiez”
- Portuguese: “Spiez”
- Russian: “Шпиц”
- Sicilian: “Spiez”
- South Azerbaijani: “سپیه”
- Spanish: “Spiez”
- Swedish: “Spiez”
- Swiss German: “Spiez”
- Thai: “ชเปียทซ์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Spiez”
- Turkish: “Spiez BE”
- Turkish: “Spiez”
- Ukrainian: “Шпіц”
- Upper Sorbian: “Spiez”
- Venetian: “Spiez”
- Volapük: “Spiez”
- Waray (Philippines): “Spiez”
- Welsh: “Spiez”
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