Fraubrunnen (district)
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Fraubrunnen District was one of the 26 administrative districts
in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
. Its capital was the municipality of Fraubrunnen
. The district has an area of 124 km² and consists of 27 municipalities
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Districts of Switzerland
In contrast to centrally organised states, in the federally constituted Switzerland each canton iscompletely free to decide its own internal organisation. Therefore there exists a variety of structures and terminology for the subnational entities between canton and municipality, loosely termed...
in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
. Its capital was the municipality of Fraubrunnen
Fraubrunnen
Fraubrunnen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.-History:Fraubrunnen is first mentioned in 1267 as Frouwenbrunnen. There are Hallstatt era tumuli in the Rüdtligenwald and Binelwald near Fraubrunnen. In the middle of the 13th...
. The district has an area of 124 km² and consists of 27 municipalities
Municipalities of Switzerland
Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,596 . While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities...
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- Population is as of December 2007, includes population and area of BallmoosBallmoosBallmoos was a municipality in the district of Fraubrunnen in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010 the municipaliy of Ballmoos merged into the municipality of Jegenstorf.-History:...
which merged into Jegenstorf in 2010