Worb Castle

Worb Castle is a castle in the municipality of Worb of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

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Type: Castle
Description: castle in Worb in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
Also known as: “Altes Schloss Worb” and “Old Worb Castle”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Worb New Château and Worb Dorf railway station.

Worb New Château

Castle

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Worb New Château is a castle, which is situated 340 metres southeast of Worb Castle.

Worb Dorf railway station

Railway station

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Worb Dorf railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Worb, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is the eastern terminus of the 1,000 mm gauge Worb Dorf–Worblaufen line of Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn. Worb Dorf railway station is situated 380 metres west of Worb Castle.

Old secondary school building (1908)

School building

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Old secondary school building (1908) is situated 360 metres southwest of Worb Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Worb and Vechigen.

Worb

Town

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Worb is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Vechigen

Village

Vechigen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. Until the administrative centralization of 1966, it was composed of four semi-autonomous communities: Vechigen, Sinneringen with Boll and Dentenberg, Utzigen with Lindental, and Berg with Littewil and Radelfingen.

Rüfenacht

Suburb

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Rüfenacht is a locality in the municipality of Worb in the district of Konolfingen in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It developed as an agricultural village whose farms practiced communal grain cultivation and shared common land and forests. Rüfenacht is situated 2½ km west of Worb Castle.

Worb Castle

Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Worb, Bern-Mittelland, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude

46.93117° or 46° 55′ 52″ north

Longitude

7.56733° or 7° 34′ 2″ east

Open location code

8FR9WHJ8+FW

OpenStreetMap ID

way 54690463

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=castle

Wikidata ID

Q682449

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Turkish—“Worb Castle” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Kasteel Worb”
French: “Château de Worb”
French: “Vieux Château de Worb”
German: “Altes Schloss Worb”
German: “Schloss Worb”
Italian: “vecchio castello di Worb”
Turkish: “Worb Kalesi”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Kirchgemeindehaus and Poststelle 3076 Worb.

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