Köniz

municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland

Place municipality_of_switzerland Q64058

Facts

21 properties

Identity

Instance of: municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, statistical territorial entity^[8]^[9]
Official website: www.koeniz.ch^[36]
Official name: Köniz

Location

Country: Switzerland^[4]
Coordinate location: 🗺️ 46.925°, 7.415°
Located in or next to body of water: Sense, Aare^[5]^[6]
Located in the administrative territorial entity: Bern-Mittelland administrative district, Bern District, Canton of Berne^[2]^[3]
Shares border with: Bern, Kehrsatz, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Oberbalm, Schwarzenburg, Ueberstorf, Wald, Spiegel, Wabern bei Bern, Liebefeld^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]

Population and size

Area: +51.01
Elevation above sea level: +572, +651
Population: 44k (2.1k–44k, n=44)^[37]^[38]^[39]^[40]^[41]^[42]^[43]^[44]^[45]^[46]^[47]^[48]^[49]^[50]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 39,375 · 41,507 · 41,772 · 37,782 · 2,115 GeoNames 42,044 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code: 031^[35]
Postal code: 3.2k (3.1k–3.2k, n=10)^[24]^[25]^[26]^[27]^[28]^[29]^[30]^[31]^[32]^[33]

More facts +8

Contains settlement: Niederwangen, Wabern bei Bern, Schliern, Liebefeld, Oberwangen, Niederscherli, Oberscherli, Herzwil, Gasel, Mittelhäusern, Thörishaus, Spiegel, Gurtendörfli, Gurten-Gartenstadt, Mengestorf, Köniz
Has list: list of mayors of Köniz
Head of government: Annemarie Berlinger-Staub, Tanja Bauer^[7]
Licence plate code: BE^[34]
List of monuments: list of cultural properties in Köniz
Official language: German^[10]
On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Govdirectory
Twinned administrative body: Prijepolje, Blatten^[22]^[23]

🏷️ Also known as

en Koeniz en villa Chunicis en Köniz BE en Köniz en Koniz ar كوينز cs villa Chunicis da villa Chunicis de villa Chunicis el Κόνιτς el Κένιτς el Κιόνιτς en-gb villa Chunicis es Koniz es villa Chunicis fa کونیز fi villa Chunicis fr Koniz fr villa Chunicis hi कोनित्स

🔖 Identifiers · 28

VIAF cluster ID: 144320251
Library of Congress authority ID: n85287736
GND ID: 4098666-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Koeniz Schloss.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID: 1507
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID: 19849
External data available at URL: geo.ld.admin.ch
Facebook location ID: 110804202281382
FactGrid item ID: Black Sea Naval Force
Freebase ID: /m/0d31r1
GADM ID: CHE.6.3.6_1
GeoNames ID: 7286216

Show all 28 identifiers +16

HDS ID: 000213
IdRef ID: 175392803
Museum-digital place ID: 97708
MusicBrainz area ID: 2f0a3259-923a-4d48-8fc6-2b92c1e117cc
NL CR AUT ID: ge477751
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007567127605171
OpenStreetMap relation ID: 1682518
Ortsnamen.ch ID: 802000355
SPAP ID: p/171ef1e0-af2f-4a99-bbbe-9a4bb86ff9a8
Swiss Enterprise Identification Number: CHE-114.891.300
Swiss municipality code: 355
Topic's main category: Category:Köniz
UN/LOCODE: CHKOZ
Who's on First ID: 404567993
WorldCat Entities ID: E39PBJfh7QMyvP8mbjmbqp3PcP
Yale LUX ID: place/5a7ded43-5d0e-4301-b362-16c97518652c

📚 Sources · 1

GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Located in time zoneP421

Europe/Zurich 2026-09-26 A/ADM3 · CH GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26

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🔗 Connections

Shares border with 9

Bern, Muri bei Bern, Kehrsatz, Wald, Neuenegg, Oberbalm, Ueberstorf, Schwarzenburg +1 more

← Shares border with 9

Bern, Muri bei Bern, Kehrsatz, Wald, Neuenegg, Oberbalm, Ueberstorf, Schwarzenburg +1 more

← Headquarters location 6

Federal Office of Topography, Federal Office of Public Health, FC Köniz, Floorball Köniz, Volley Köniz, Adval Tech Holding

Contained subdivisions 5

Gurten, Federal Institute of Metrology, Wabern bei Bern, Floorball Köniz, PTT Archive

Located in the administrative territorial entity 3

Canton of Berne, Bern-Mittelland administrative district, Bern District

People born here 3

Otto Rudolf Salvisberg, Linda Geiser, Nikolaj Hänni

People who died here 3

Johann David Wyss, Karl Huber, Alfred Fankhauser

Located in or next to body of water 2

Aare, Sense

Twinned administrative body 2

Prijepolje, Blatten

← Twinned administrative body 2

Prijepolje, Blatten

Contains settlement 1

Wabern bei Bern

Country 1

Switzerland

FactGrid item ID 1

Black Sea Naval Force

Instance of 1

municipality of Switzerland

Official language 1

German

On focus list of Wikimedia project 1

WikiProject Govdirectory

Topic's main category 1

Category:Köniz

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Köniz

← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1

Bern-Mittelland administrative district

← Municipal affiliation of a Swiss national 1

Ursula Wyss

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Summary

Köniz is a Municipality of Switzerland^[1].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

[7] ↑ Köniz — head of government (P6): Tanja Bauer. koeniz.ch. koeniz.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Köniz — country (P17): Switzerland. archINFORM. Retrieved 2018-08-06. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Köniz — instance of (P31): city of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Köniz — instance of (P31): statistical territorial entity. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Köniz — official language (P37): German. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Köniz — shares border with (P47): Bern. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Köniz — shares border with (P47): Kehrsatz. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Köniz — shares border with (P47): Muri bei Bern. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Köniz — shares border with (P47): Neuenegg. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Köniz — shares border with (P47): Oberbalm. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Köniz — shares border with (P47): Schwarzenburg. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Köniz — shares border with (P47): Ueberstorf. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Köniz — shares border with (P47): Wald. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Köniz — shares border with (P47): Spiegel. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Köniz — shares border with (P47): Wabern bei Bern. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Köniz — shares border with (P47): Liebefeld. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Köniz — located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): Bern-Mittelland administrative district. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Köniz — located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): Canton of Berne. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ Köniz — twinned administrative body (P190): Prijepolje. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ Köniz — twinned administrative body (P190): Blatten. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Köniz — located in or next to body of water (P206): Sense. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Köniz — located in or next to body of water (P206): Aare. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ Köniz — postal code (P281): 3084. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ Köniz — postal code (P281): 3095. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ Köniz — postal code (P281): 3097. wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ Köniz — postal code (P281): 3098. wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ Köniz — postal code (P281): 3144. wikidata.org.
[29] ↑ Köniz — postal code (P281): 3145. wikidata.org.
[30] ↑ Köniz — postal code (P281): 3147. wikidata.org.
[31] ↑ Köniz — postal code (P281): 3172. wikidata.org.
[32] ↑ Köniz — postal code (P281): 3173. wikidata.org.
[33] ↑ Köniz — postal code (P281): 3174. wikidata.org.
[34] ↑ Köniz — licence plate code (P395): BE. wikidata.org.
[35] ↑ Köniz — local dialing code (P473): 031. wikidata.org.
[36] ↑ Köniz — official website (P856): https://www.koeniz.ch. wikidata.org.
[37] ↑ Köniz — population (P1082): 39,375. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved 2014-06-04. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[38] ↑ Köniz — population (P1082): 41,507. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved 2019-01-12. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[39] ↑ Köniz — population (P1082): 41,772. bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved 2019-04-11. bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[40] ↑ Köniz — population (P1082): 37,782. Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. hls-dhs-dss.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[41] ↑ Köniz — population (P1082): 2115. Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. hls-dhs-dss.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[42] ↑ Köniz — population (P1082): 6886. wikidata.org.
[43] ↑ Köniz — population (P1082): 34,040. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved 2020-06-15. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[44] ↑ Köniz — population (P1082): 34,703. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved 2020-06-15. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[45] ↑ Köniz — population (P1082): 35,270. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved 2020-06-15. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[46] ↑ Köniz — population (P1082): 35,504. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved 2020-06-15. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[47] ↑ Köniz — population (P1082): 35,636. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved 2020-06-15. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[48] ↑ Köniz — population (P1082): 35,664. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved 2020-06-15. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[49] ↑ Köniz — population (P1082): 35,724. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved 2020-06-15. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[50] ↑ Köniz — population (P1082): 35,516. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved 2020-06-15. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Köniz is an instance of Municipality of Switzerland (Q70208) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

17d ago · Horgner · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Population → {'amount': '+39375'}, {'amount': '+41507'}, {'amount': '+41772'} +41

Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'ar', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cs', 'cv', 'cy',

Sitelink count → 62

Claims rich → —

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19w ago · Lehmannro · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Located in or next to body of water → Sense, Aare

Topic's main category → Category:Köniz

Official language → German

Population → {'amount': '+39375'}, {'amount': '+41507'}, {'amount': '+41772'} +41

+ 26 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

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