RZB Gampelen
Eschenhof 191, 3236 Gampelen · Canton of Bern
No capacity is published for this site.
Listed as at October 2025, by a third party
The canton of Bern publishes no list of its centres. This entry comes from a directory compiled by KKF, a church-run contact point, dated October 2025. We have not confirmed since then that this centre is still in use.
Cantonal return centre (Rückkehrzentrum) at Eschenhof 191, Gampelen, for people whose asylum application was rejected and who are required to leave Switzerland. They receive emergency aid rather than asylum social assistance. It is an open centre, not detention. The directory states that the return centres are run on behalf of the canton's Amt für Bevölkerungsdienste. The canton of Bern publishes no list of its centres, so this entry rests on the October 2025 directory of KKF, the church-run contact point for refugee questions in the canton of Bern. That is a third-party source, not an official one, and it is labelled as such. The directory gives an address and no capacity. Centres open and close, and we have not confirmed each one since that date. The pin is derived from the address using the federal register of building addresses.
Sources
third-party source, not official
Swiss asylum accommodation has two tiers: the Confederation runs the federal asylum centres, and the 26 cantons house people afterwards under 26 different arrangements, with no national register. This is the cantonal tier, and it is covered for two cantons only, Vaud and Bern. The canton of Bern publishes no list of its collective centres. The source here is therefore a third party: the October 2025 directory of KKF, a contact point for refugee questions run by the churches in the canton. It is not an official source and is not presented as one. It gives an address and no capacity, and it is a snapshot: centres open and close, and we have not confirmed each one since that date. The position is derived from the address. No accommodation cost figure exists for the cantonal centres.