Prêles

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Prêles

Total population

897

Coordinates47.10°, 7.13°

Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Prêles is a former municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

G

Georges Moeckli

Swiss politician and teacher (1889-1974)

Isabelle Morel

Swiss writer and translator

Jules Gilliéron

linguist and dialectologist (1854-1926)

A

Amanda Tröndle-Engel

Swiss painter (1862-1956)

Antoinette Quinche

Swiss suffragist (1896–1979)

Charles Naine

Swiss politician (1874-1926)

C

Claude Berger

Swiss politician (1921-1981)

E

Emile Rodé

Swiss jurist (1854-1898)

F

Florian Imer

Swiss politician (1898-1981)

P

Paul Martig

Swiss reformed theologian (1869-1933)

Alphonse François Lacroix

Swiss protestant missionary (1799–1859)

A

Alfred Quervain

Swiss theologian (1896-1968)

J

Jean Jacques Châtelain

Swiss botanist (1736-1822)

A

Auguste Spichiger

Swiss activist (1842-1919)

N

Nicolaus de Béguelin

Swiss physician, writer, mathematician and jurist

P

Paul Miche

Swiss composer (1886-1960)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Bern

• Ligerz
  1 mi away · pop. 527
• Lamboing
  1.3 mi away · pop. 696
• Wingreis
  2.1 mi away
• La Neuveville
  3 mi away · pop. 3,666
• Tüscherz
  3.1 mi away · pop. 307
• Alfermée
  3.6 mi away
• Lüscherz
  3.8 mi away · pop. 492
• Hagneck
  3.9 mi away · pop. 424
• Täuffelen
  3.9 mi away · pop. 2,437
• Mörigen
  4 mi away · pop. 888
• Sutz-Lattrigen
  4 mi away · pop. 1,358
• Vinelz
  4.7 mi away · pop. 825

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Prêles

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers