Oschwand

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Bern (BE)

Administrative district :

Oberaargau

Residential municipality :

Ochlenberg and Seeberg

Postal code :

3476 Oschwand
3367 Ochlenberg
3365 Seeberg

Coordinates :

620 701 / 221 117 coordinates: 47 ° 8 '27 " N , 7 ° 42' 42" O ; CH1903: 620,701 / two hundred twenty-one thousand one hundred and seventeen

Height :

626 m above sea level M.

Oschwand, Spych, Riedtwil, Hermiswil, Thörigen v. SO from 3000 m. Photo by Walter Mittelholzer , 1923

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Oschwand is a hamlet in the Molasse hill country of the Buchsiberge mountains in the Bernese administrative district of Oberaargau in Switzerland.

The hamlet of Oschwand is divided between the communities of Seeberg BE and Ochlenberg . On the Ochlenberg side there was a school that was closed in 2012. The travel writer Lina Bögli was born in Oschwand in 1858. The painter Cuno Amiet (member of the " Brücke ") lived on the Seeberger side for sixty years and died here in 1961.

Marianne von Werefkin : Mountain landscape near Oschwand. (1915/1917)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Oschwand. Seeberg community, archived from the original on June 19, 2016 ; accessed on January 24, 2019 (original website no longer available).
^ Oschwand school building. Ochlenberg community, accessed on June 11, 2017 .
↑ Lina Bögli is back in her home country. In: bernerzeitung.ch . Espace Media Groupe / Tamedia , January 21, 2011, p. 1 , accessed June 11, 2017 .

[seeberg-1] Oschwand. Seeberg community, archived from the original on June 19, 2016 ; accessed on January 24, 2019 (original website no longer available).

[2] Oschwand school building. Ochlenberg community, accessed on June 11, 2017 .

[3] Lina Bögli is back in her home country. In: bernerzeitung.ch . Espace Media Groupe / Tamedia , January 21, 2011, p. 1 , accessed June 11, 2017 .