Orpund [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Orpund
Orpund is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
History.
Orpund is first mentioned in 1255 as "Orpunt". The municipality was formerly known by its unknown name "er Orpondes", however, that name is no longer used.
The oldest traces of settlements in the area were neolithic, Bronze Age and La Tène era artifacts which were discovered during construction of the Nidau-Büren Canal. A horde of Bronze Age items and a Roman era
Reichskommissariat
Reichskommissariat () is the German designation for a type of administrative entity headed by a government official known as a "Reichskommissar" (). Although many different such offices existed primarily throughout the Imperial German and Nazi periods in a number of different fields (ranging from public infrastructure and spatial planning to ethnic cleansing) it is most commonly used to refer to the quasi-colonial administrative territorial entity established by Nazi Germany in several occupied countries during World War II. While officially located outside the German Reich in a legal sense