Spiez
Municipality in Bern, Switzerland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the animated television series, see The Amazing Spiez!
Spiez is a town and municipality on the shore of Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss canton of Bern. It is part of the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district. Besides the town of Spiez, the municipality also includes the settlements of Einigen, Hondrich, Faulensee, and Spiezwiler.
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Spiez | |
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Coordinates: 46°41′N 7°40′E | |
Country | Switzerland |
Canton | Bern |
District | Frutigen-Niedersimmental |
Government | |
• Executive | Gemeinderat with 7 members |
• Mayor | Gemeindepräsident Franz Arnold SPS/PSS (as of 2002) |
• Parliament | Grosser Gemeinderat with 36 members |
Area | |
• Total | 16.8 km2 (6.5 sq mi) |
Elevation (Railway station) | 628 m (2,060 ft) |
Population (31 December 2018)[2] | |
• Total | 12,810 |
• Density | 760/km2 (2,000/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (Central European Time) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time) |
Postal code(s) | 3700 |
SFOS number | 0768 |
ISO 3166 code | CH-BE |
Localities | Einigen, Hondrich, Faulensee, and Spiezwiler |
Surrounded by | Aeschi bei Spiez, Hilterfingen, Krattigen, Oberhofen am Thunersee, Reutigen, Sigriswil, Thun, Wimmis, Zwieselberg |
Website | http://www.spiez.ch SFSO statistics |
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The official language of Spiez is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.