Wichtrach railway station

railway station in Wichtrach in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
Place architectural_structure Q31454354
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

Wichtrach railway station is an architectural structure[1]. It draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (architectural structure category, ranking #199 of 1,822).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Wichtrach[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Transport network: Bern S-Bahn[5]
  • Instance of: railway station[6], architectural ensemble[7]
  • Connecting line: Bern–Thun railway line[8]
  • Commissioned by: Schweizerische Centralbahn[9]
  • Owned by: Swiss Federal Railways[10]
  • Operator: Swiss Federal Railways[11]
  • Adjacent station: Kiesen railway station[12], Münsingen railway station[13]
  • Location: Oberwichtrach[14]
  • Station code: WCH[15]
  • Part of: list of cultural properties in Wichtrach[16]
  • Commons category: Wichtrach railway station[17]
  • Inception: 1865[18]
  • Official website: https://www.sbb.ch/content/internet/sbb/de/bahnhof-services/bahnhoefe/bahnhof-finden/bahnhof.7007.html[19]
  • Described at URL: https://denkmalpflege.apps.be.ch/de/collection/item/30264/[20]
  • Track gauge: standard-gauge railway[21]
  • Number of platform tracks: 2[22]
  • Connecting service: S1 (Bern)[23]
  • Heritage designation: class B Swiss cultural property of regional significance[24]
  • Official name: Wichtrach[25]
  • Elevation above sea level: 530 m[26]
  • Appears in the heritage monument list: list of cultural properties in Wichtrach[27]
  • Number of platform faces: 2[28]
  • State of use: in use[29]

Why It Matters

Wichtrach railway station is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . s-bahn-bern.ch. s-bahn-bern.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of Regional Significance, February 2017. wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of Regional Significance, February 2017. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . s-bahn-bern.ch. s-bahn-bern.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . s-bahn-bern.ch. s-bahn-bern.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . denkmalpflege.apps.be.ch. Retrieved . denkmalpflege.apps.be.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of Regional Significance, February 2017. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Wichtrach railway station. Retrieved October 19, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/wichtrach-railway-station
MLA “Wichtrach railway station.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 19 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/wichtrach-railway-station.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_wichtrach-railway-station_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Wichtrach railway station}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/wichtrach-railway-station}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-19}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Wichtrach railway station — https://4ort.xyz/entity/wichtrach-railway-station (retrieved 2026-10-19)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/wichtrach-railway-station · Last refreshed:

Edit History

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.

  1. 3d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14976 → D703DA22-C30C-4B34-B242-682EFC43EDDE
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14976: D703DA22-C30C-4B34-B242-682EFC43EDDE, swissNAMES3D ID from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  2. 5d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'commons', 'en', 'eo', 'ko']
    Official name → {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Wichtrach'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||2 */ source for position, official name from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  3. 5w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/53825|batch #53825]]: redundant value: it should not have a time zone"
  4. 6w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Commissioned by → Schweizerische Centralbahn
    Connecting service → S1 (Bern)
    Location → Oberwichtrach
    Part of → —
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/51993|batch #51993]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.