Aarberg

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Aarberg
Aarberg coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton BernCanton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district : Zealandw
BFS no. : 0301i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 3270
UN / LOCODE : CH ABG
Coordinates : 587630  /  210376 coordinates: 47 ° 2 '39 "  N , 7 ° 16' 33"  O ; CH1903:  587630  /  210376
Height : 455  m above sea level M.
Height range : 439–553 m above sea level M.
Area : 7.93  km²
Residents: 4628 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 584 inhabitants per km²
Mayor : Fritz Affolter ( SVP )
Website: www.aarberg.ch
Aarberg Castle, today's office building

Castle Aarberg
today Amtshaus
Location of the municipality
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Aarberg (in the local dialect : [ ɑrˈb̥æːrg̊ ]) is a political municipality and capital of the administrative district of Seeland in the canton of Bern . Today the city has more than 4000 inhabitants.

The hamlet of Spins is incorporated .

geography

The place is above the Aare at 456  m above sea level. M. at the foot of the Frienisberg. Neighboring communities are Bargen , Kappelen , Lyss , Seedorf and Radelfingen .

history

The city was founded around 1220 by the Burgundian Count Ulrich III. from Neuchâtel . The oldest written town charter dates from 1271. On January 11, 1338, Count Peter von Aarberg signed a castle law contract with Freiburg. On July 26, 1339, Count Peter von Aarberg became field captain of the Freiburg against the Bernese. Count Peter von Aarberg confirmed (receipt) on May 7, 1340 that he had received the wages promised by Freiburg and that Junker Peter von Lobsigen had also been well compensated for the steed he killed by the Bernese. In 1351, Count Peter II of Aarberg , the last lord of the town, pledged Aarberg to the city of Bern for 16,700 guilders . Since the count was no longer able to redeem the pledge, the entire rule finally came to Bern in 1376 through his cousin, Rudolf IV, the count of Neuchâtel zu Nidau.

Aarberg 1744 still flowed around by the Aare

After the city fire of 1477, Aarberg was rebuilt. The market square was built between the rows of houses. The market rights were extended to the salt, iron and cloth trade, which brought the city an economic boom. In 1798 Aarberg was occupied by French troops. In 1803, Aarberg became the capital of the Aarberg district. In 1832 the municipality of Aarberg was established with its own administration.

The correction of the Aare as part of the Jura water correction with the Hagneck Canal changed the location of Aarberg, which was previously on an island. With the construction of the Bern – Biel railway line, which makes a stopover in Lyss, the movement of goods and people shifted from water to rail and from Aarberg to neighboring Lyss.

Cityscape

Historic houses on the town square

The cityscape is shaped by the Middle Ages . On site there are u. a. a late Gothic church and a wooden bridge from 1557.

Attractions

Population development

Population development
year Residents
1764 440
1850 993
1900 1372
1950 2126
1990 3414
2002 3910
2004 3946
2005 4026
2006 4240
2013 4273

politics

The voting shares of the parties in the 2019 National Council election were: SVP 33.7%, SP 14.8%, BDP 12.2%, FDP 9.9%, glp 9.9%, GPS 10.5%, EVP 3.8 %, EDU 1.3%, CVP 0.8%.

Aerial view in 1949 with the sugar factory

Economy and Infrastructure

The Aarberg sugar refinery was founded in 1912 and is the largest company in town.

Aarberg has a public hospital with 24-hour emergency care, it is part of the hospital network Spital Netz Bern.

Personalities

photos

Web links

Commons : Aarberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource Wikisource: Aarberg  - Article of the 4th edition of Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
Wikisource: Arberg in the Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Permanent resident population from STAT-TAB of the BfS , municipalities see also regional portraits 2020 on bfs.admin.ch, accessed on May 29, 2020
  2. ↑ Gabrielle Schmid / Andres Kristol: Aarberg BE (Aarberg) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss municipality names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 73.
  3. ^ A b Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 1: Aa - Emmengruppe . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1902, p. 5, keyword Aarberg   ( scan of the lexicon page ).
  4. ^ Results of the Aarberg community. State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern, October 20, 2019, accessed on August 4, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Thomas Gmür: Clias, Phokion Heinrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .