page_title: Sumiswald
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Sumiswald / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Sumiswald, view from the tower of Castle Trachselwald, canton of Bern, Switzerland Esperanto: Sumiswald, rigardo de turo de la Kastelo Trachselwald, Kantono Berno, Svislando Deutsch: Sumiswald, Blick vom Turm des Schlosses Trachselwald, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Sumiswald is a municipality in the district of the Emmental administrative district in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It is mostly known for being the manufacturing location of the Swiss railway clock.
context_section_description: Sumiswald consists of three villages (Sumiswald, Grünen and Wasen), two hamlets (Gammenthal and Griesbach) and scattered farm houses and alpine meadows in the lower Emmental. It is one of the largest municipalities in the canton.
  Sumiswald has an area of 59.34 km² (22.91 sq mi).  As of the 2006 survey, a total of 28.44 km² (10.98 sq mi) or 47.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 27.45 km² (10.60 sq mi) or 46.3% is forested.   Of rest of the municipality 3.05 km² (1.18 sq mi) or 5.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.38 km² (0.15 sq mi) or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and 0.06 km² (15 acres) or 0.1% is unproductive land.
  From the same survey, housing and buildings made up 2.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.7%.  A total of 43.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 11.3% is used for growing crops and  25.0% is pasturage and 10.9% is used for alpine pastures.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
  On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Trachselwald, the municipality's former district, was dissolved.  On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Emmental.
caption: Sumiswald, view from the tower of Castle Trachselwald
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