"Heimberg (CH)" not part of results

When searching for “heimberg” with country bias Switzerland (CH), there are only results for “heimberg” in Germany. Only when explicitely searching for “heimberg (ch)”, the location (“osm_id”:1682472) is among the results.

Why is that?

voilà:

https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=heimberg&countrycodes=CH&addressdetails=1&format=json&accept_language=de

It is countrycodes, not countryCodes (check the differences to your first example link). The query parameter keys don’t use camelCase…