Kappelen

Kappelen combines rural calm with close ties to the nearby service centre of Aarberg in a way that reflects its position in Bern’s Seeland. The municipality lies on the Swiss Plateau near the Aare, in a lowland region long defined by farming and water management. Seeland was reshaped by the 19th-century Jura water correction, a major engineering project that reduced flooding and made extensive areas more suitable for cultivation. Today, Kappelen remains a small-scale settlement within this productive agricultural setting, while Bern and Biel/Bienne are within the wider regional network. View additional webcams nearby to better understand how Kappelen’s Seeland setting relates to the Aare plain and the Swiss Plateau.

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