Oberaargau: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Oberaargau can be discovered on walks, hikes and bike rides. Anyone looking for such activities on holiday will recognise them as a clear focus of the destination. You can rent a holiday apartment in Oberaargau.

Oberaargau is the easternmost part of the canton of Bern and borders the cantons of Solothurn, Aargau and Lucerne. The regional area extends from the first Jura range to the Aare Valley and up to the Ahorn, a foothill of the Napf.

The Region-Oberaargau Association connects 43 municipalities in the canton of Bern, two municipalities outside the canton and numerous member organisations. Its regional responsibilities also include leisure and tourism.

Nature

Oberaargau is described as a scenic region with villages, valleys, hills, forests and meadows.

The opportunities for walking and hiking range from easy strolls to more challenging hikes.

Culture

In the wider area, Bipp is associated with the castle context and lies approximately 10.6 km as the crow flies north-west of the centre of Oberaargau. If castles are among your travel interests, Bipp is therefore a specific point of reference in the wider area. Other named points of reference are Voliere Solothurn in the zoo context, approximately 15.5 km to the west; Kloster Olten in the monastery context, approximately 21.3 km to the north-east; Ruchen in the mountain context, approximately 19.5 km to the north; Hornbachegg in the hill context, approximately 16.2 km to the south; Sankt Margrete in the church context, approximately 29.3 km to the east; Spitzenflüeli in the hill context, approximately 19.9 km to the north; and Gitzichnubel in the hill context, approximately 24.5 km to the south-east of the centre of Oberaargau. The distances are approximate straight-line distances from the centre of Oberaargau.

During mining and gravel extraction, mammoth remains were found in several municipalities of Oberaargau in the 20th century, including Gondiswil, Langenthal, Ochlenberg and Wynau.

Regional examples of cultural heritage include the ruins of Grünenberg and Erlinsburg, the soldiers' memorial in Huttwil, the historic village centre of Wiedlisbach and the covered wooden bridge in Wangen an der Aare.

If you would like to place Oberaargau in its regional context, you can also use the pages on Signau, Neuenstadt, Trachselwald, Schwarzenburg, Aarwangen, Niedersimmental, Saanen and Bern.

To the higher-level travel overview: Bern.