page_title: Gerzensee
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Gerzensee / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial view, looking southeast, of the Belpberg mountain at the conjunction of the Aare and Gürbe valleys. To the right, Belp and Berne Airport.
context_page_description: Gerzensee is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
  The town is named after its lake: Gerzensee.
context_section_description: Gerzensee has an area of 7.81 km² (3.02 sq mi). As of 2012, a total of 5.28 km² (2.04 sq mi) or 67.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.58 km² (0.61 sq mi) or 20.3% is forested.  The rest of the municipality is 0.7 km² (0.27 sq mi) or 9.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.28 km² (0.11 sq mi) or 3.6% is either rivers or lakes.
  During the same year, housing and buildings made up 6.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.1%. A total of 18.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 39.3% is used for growing crops and 25.7% is pasturage, while 2.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the water in the municipality, 1.8% is in lakes and 1.8% is in rivers and streams.
  The municipality stretches from the south-east edge of Belpberg mountain to the Aare river. The village of Gerzensee is located on a terrace above the Gerzensee Lake. It consists of the village of Gerzensee and the scattered settlements of Sädel, Vorderchlapf and Hinterchlapf.
  The municipalities of Gelterfingen, Gerzensee, Kirchdorf, Mühledorf and Noflen are considering a merger on 1 January 2017 into the new municipality with an, as of 2014, undetermined name.
  On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Seftigen, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland.
caption: Aerial view of the Belpberg and Gürbetal. The Gerzensee lake is visible in the center
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