District of Lower Simmental
District of Lower Simmental | |
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Basic data | |
Country: | Switzerland |
Canton : | Bern (BE) |
Main town : | Wimmis |
Area : | 305.46 km² |
Residents: | 21,735 (December 31, 2008) |
Population density : | 71 inhabitants per km² |
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The district of Niedersimmental was an administrative unit of the Canton of Bern until December 31, 2009 . The seat of the governor was Wimmis Castle in Wimmis . The district comprised nine municipalities on 305.46 km²:
Communities
Name of the parish | Population (December 31, 2008) |
Area in km² | Inhabitants per km² |
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Därstetten | 857 | 32.84 | 26th |
Diemtigen | 2145 | 129.94 | 17th |
Erlenbach in the Simmental | 1694 | 36.69 | 46 |
Stock down | 267 | 5.50 | 49 |
Oberstocken | 284 | 4.10 | 69 |
Oberwil in the Simmental | 804 | 46.06 | 17th |
Reutigen | 956 | 11.29 | 85 |
Spiez | 12,453 | 16.69 | 746 |
Wimmis | 2275 | 22.35 | 102 |
Total (9) | 21,735 | 305.46 | 71 |
Changes in the community
- 2010: District change from Niederstocken , Oberstocken and Reutigen from the district of Niedersimmental → administrative district of Thun
- 2010: Change of district of all other 6 municipalities from the Niedersimmental district → Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district
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- Ludwig Samuel von Tscharner: The legal sources of the Canton of Bern, Part Two: Rights of the Landscape, Volume 1: The statutory law of the Simmental until 1798, 2nd half-volume: The Lower Simmental (= Swiss Lawyers Association. Legal Sources Foundation [Ed.]: Collection of Swiss Legal Sources . II . Department). Sauerländer, Aarau 1914, DNB 367722232 ( online ).