Saanen district

This article should not be confused with the Saane district in the heart of the canton of Friborg . For the history of the Saanen district see the article Saanenland .

Saanen district
Basic data
Country:	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Main town :	Saanen
Area :	240.96 km²
Residents:	8732 (December 31, 2008)
Population density :	36 inhabitants per km²
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The Saanen district was an administrative unit of the Canton of Bern until December 31, 2009 . The administrative district with the main town Saanen comprised three communities with 8732 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2008) on 240.96 km²:

Communities

Name of the parish	Population (December 31, 2008)	Area in km²	Inhabitants per km²
Gsteig	959	62.41	15th
Lauenen	812	58.49	14th
Saanen	6961	120.06	58
Total (3)	8732	240.96	36

Changes in the community

• 

  Municipalities until 2009

• 2010: District change of all 3 municipalities from the Saanen district → Obersimmental-Saanen district

swell

• Hermann Rennefahrt: The legal sources of the Canton of Bern, Part two: Rights of the landscape, Volume 3: The statutory law of the Saanen landscape until 1798 (= Swiss Lawyers Association. Legal Sources Foundation [Ed.]: Collection of Swiss legal sources . II. Department). Sauerländer, Aarau 1942 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Saanen District  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Anne-Marie Dubler : Saanen (Vogtei). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Statistical Office