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.Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 2,960 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Postal code: 3855
- Neighbors: Grindelwald and Meiringen
Notable Places in the Area
Brienz West railway station
Brienz West railway station is a Swiss railway station in the municipality of Brienz and the canton of Bern.Localities in the Area
Hofstetten bei Brienz
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
Photo: Hadi, Public domain.
46°43′08″N 8°02′16″E / 46.71889°N 8.03778°E Axalp and Lake Brienz seen from below… 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
2,960Elevation
563 metres (1,847 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH BEZOpen Location Code
8FRCQ24J+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 240048614OpenStreetMap Feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2661398Wikidata ID
Q65268Brienz Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Brienz (BE)
- Albanian: Brienz
- Arabic: Brienz
- 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
- English: Brienz BE
- Esperanto: Brienz BE
- Esperanto: Brinco
- Esperanto: Engi
- Esperanto: Giessbach
- Esperanto: Kienholz
- Esperanto: Schwendi
- Estonian: Brienz
- French: Brienz
- German: Brienz
- German: Brienz BE
- 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
- Luxembourgish: Brienz BE
- Macedonian: Бриенц
- Malay: Brienz
- Norwegian Bokmål: Brienz
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Brienz
- Occitan (post 1500): Brienz
- Persian: برینز
- Piemontese: Brienz
- Polish: Brienz
- Portuguese: Brienz
- Romansh: Brienz
- Russian: Бриенц
- Russian: Бринц
- Scots: 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. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Brienz. Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.