Adelboden

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Adelboden
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Frutigen-Niedersimmental
BFS no. :	0561
Postal code :	3715
UN / LOCODE :	CH ADL
Coordinates :	609 302  /  149 113 coordinates: 46 ° 29 '36 "  N , 7 ° 33' 35"  O ; CH1903:  609 302  /  149,113
Height :	1350  m above sea level M.
Height range :	1046–3240 m above sea level M.
Area :	87.62  km²
Residents:	3390 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	39 inhabitants per km²
Mayor :	Daniel von Allmen-Gempeler ( SVP )
Website:	www.3715.ch
Adelboden seen from Engstligenalp
Location of the municipality

Adelboden (in the local dialect : [ ˈad̥əlˌb̥od̥ə ]) is a municipality in the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

geography

Adelboden is located in the west of the Bernese Oberland , at the end of the Engstligental , which flows into the Kandertal near Frutigen . Adelboden lies at 1350  m above sea level. M. , the highest point of the municipality is the Grossstrubel with 3242  m above sea level. M  .; the lowest point is in Engstligental at 1045  m above sea level. M. The vegetation is sub-alpine and alpine: the slopes are often forested, the plateaus and terraces serve as pastures.

The main part of the village lies on a south-facing terrace above the Engstligental. The community also includes the farmers Ausserschwand, Boden, Gilbach, Hirzboden and Stigelschwand.

The most striking mountains are Lohner ( 3048  m above sea level ), Tschingellochtighorn ( 2735  m above sea level ), Steghorn ( 3146  m above sea level ), Wildstrubel ( 3242  m above sea level ), Fitzer ( 2458  m above sea level). M. ), Tschenten ( 2025  m above sea level ; with mountain railway) and Gsür ( 2708  m above sea level ).

Climate table

Adelboden, 1981-2010
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     92   3 -5     85   3 -5     94   6th -3     89   9 0     128   14th 4th     148   17th 7th     160   20th 10     154   19th 9     103   16 6th     89   12 3     92   6th -2     105   3 -4 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source:

Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Adelboden, 1981–2010 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 2.6 3.0 5.9 9.3 14.1 17.2 19.7 18.9 15.5 12.1 6.2 3.4 O 10.7 Min. Temperature (° C) −5.2 −5.3 −2.9 0.0 4.3 7.2 9.5 9.4 6.4 3.4 −1.6 −4.2 O 1.8 Temperature (° C) −1.7 −1.6 1.1 4.2 8.8 11.8 14.2 13.7 10.4 7.0 1.8 −0.8 O 5.8 Precipitation ( mm ) 92 85 94 89 128 148 160 154 103 89 92 105 Σ 1,339 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 2.9 3.5 4.0 4.4 4.9 5.4 6.0 5.5 4.9 3.9 2.8 2.5 O 4.2 Rainy days ( d ) 10.6 10.1 12.2 12.2 14.6 14.4 14.0 13.4 10.8 10.3 10.4 11.1 Σ 144.1 Humidity ( % ) 69 70 71 73 75 77 76 78 80 76 74 72 O 74.3 Source:

history

Village church from 1433

The current name of the municipality appears in 1409 (in the Adelboden valley) and probably comes from the plant name Adelgras ' Alpenrispengras ( Poa alpina )', the foreground of which was associated with the generic word soil 'deeper, flat land, valley floor, mountain terrace'. The name Wald has been used for the village since 1350 , until the first half of the 20th century the village was also called Kilchschwand, Innerschwand or (until today) simply Schwand , which indicates its location in a clearing created by clearing.

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1949

The Engstligenalp and Silleren Alps, which belong to Adelboden , were first mentioned in the 13th century. The inhabitants of the Engstligental were called forest people. The people of Adelboden built a church at their own expense in 1433 and 56 housefathers vouched for the pastor's salary. In the 16th century Adelboden joined the Reformation , the Catholic pastor fled over the Hahnenmoospass to the still Catholic Freiburg region .

Until the twentieth century there was no closed village center in Adelboden, the village consisted of scattered settlements in the farmers Hirzboden, Bonderle, Boden, Stiegelschwand, Innerschwand (in the area of ​​today's village center) and Ausserschwand. The only way to Frutigen was high up on the right side of the valley. The smallholder population lived from cattle breeding and dairy farming and moved from the valley to the Alps and back over the course of the year - in the 1920s the two richest farmers in Adelboden had just eight cows each in their stalls. A frequent and very modest additional income was making matchboxes, which poor families, including children, worked on late into the night.

In the middle of the 19th century bad harvests and animal diseases caused great hardship and as a result many Adelboden residents emigrated.

In 1873 the first guesthouse was built, today's Hotel Hari im Schlegeli. In 1884 the new access road along the Engstlige was completed, in 1887 the Hotel Wildstrubel was built and soon afterwards other hotels, initially only for summer operation. In 1901 the Grand Hotel first introduced a winter season, and in the following years tourism led to a marked increase in the population. The cable car to Engstligenalp was built in the 1930s.

population

Population development
year	1764	1850	1900	1910	1930	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000	2010
Residents	1051	1513	1564	2163	2417	2873	2881	3326	3276	3347	3634	3563

languages

The language is German , more precisely Adelbodetütsch, one of the highest Alemannic local dialects of the Bernese Oberland .

Denominations

• Reformed 81.54%
• Roman Catholic 4.77%
• Free churches 13.63%

Frutenland is one of the Bernese regions in which Protestant free churches play an essential role.

politics

Legislative is the twice-yearly parish meeting. The executive is the municipal council with nine members, all of whom are volunteers.

The voting shares of the parties in the 2015 National Council election were: SVP 46.1%, EDU 23.6%, EPP 6.8%, BDP 6.3%, FDP 5.3%, SP 4.7%, glp 3.5 %, GPS 1.8%, CVP 0.4%.

economy

In Adelboden there is a mixture of agriculture , trade (construction companies, mineral spring Adelboden mineral ) and tourism . There are jobs in the hospitality industry (approx. 490 people), other services (approx. 500 people), construction (approx. 310 people), car trade (approx. 30 people), at the mineral spring (approx. 45 people) and in agriculture (Full-time employment approx. 45 people).

Agriculture

Farmhouse from 1771 in Adelboden Ausserschwand

Adelboden still has many farms today, mainly cattle breeding and dairy farming, with the majority of farmers also doing a sideline. There are 3000 head of cattle in the municipality, most of which spend the summer on the numerous Alps belonging to the municipality, such as Silleren , Engstligenalp or Furggi . The cattle rights of these Alps are in great demand and, in contrast to other areas, the Alps are all catered for. Berner Alpkäse is made in the Alps, a hard cheese that is known as sliced ​​cheese after two years of storage . Most of it is sold directly to private customers, some in local restaurants and shops - it is not available outside of Adelboden.

tourism

Adelboden around 1900

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In Adelboden there are 24 hotels with 1,291 beds, 800 holiday apartments with 10,000 beds, 28 group accommodations with 830 beds, 3 campsites and 40 restaurants. What is special for a Swiss holiday resort is that three hotels belong to the VCH - Association of Christian Hotels and together provide 25% of hotel beds and 33% of overnight stays.

In summer there are 300 km of hiking trails, from walks to alpine via ferrata. Numerous mountain railways lead up. Additional offers exist in the form of mountain bike routes, model aircraft construction, paragliding, tennis courts, wellness offers and other things.

On July 9, 2005, Adelboden was certified as the first alpine wellness holiday destination in Switzerland.

Adelboden as seen from Chuenisbärgli in winter

The Adelboden-Frutigen-Lenk ski region comprises 56 transport systems with more than 170 km of slopes of all levels of difficulty, including the World Cup giant slalom slope on the Chuenisbärgli . There are also 23 km of cross-country ski trails, 74 km of winter hiking trails and the leisure and sports arena, an ice rink with an ice rink for ice hockey , figure skating and curling , a separate ice rink with 4 curling rinks, a climbing hall with a bouldering room, a bowling facility and a restaurant. Furthermore, the «Kuonisbergli» (Chuenisbärgli) in Adelboden has been one of the venues for the FIS Ski World Cup since 1956 .

Adelboden is home to the Our Chalet scout center, one of the four world centers of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts .

The dialect song " Vogel-Lisi ", which was composed in Adelboden in the 1950s, is considered to be the tourist trademark of Adelboden . Many things in Adelboden are named after the song.

traffic

Adelboden is at a dead end, so there is no through traffic. The Adelboden valley can be reached from Spiez (A6 motorway from Bern ) or Kandersteg (car transport from Wallis / Italy ) on the main road in the direction of Frutigen – Adelboden.

The cantonal road from Frutigen to Adelboden was completed in 1884 with the Hoher Steg bridge over the deeply cut Engstlige and further expanded in the 20th century. It replaced the single-lane, old Adelbodenstrasse, which was steep and winding in places and led east of the Engstlige to Adelboden and is still used today as an access route, mainly for residents. The new road was laid to Frutigen west of the Engstlige through a steep slope area of ​​the Niesen chain that is affected by rockfalls, debris flows and avalanches. The road was largely protected from natural hazards with high retaining walls, rockfall nets, avalanche barriers, bridges and the Lintertunnel. In the winter of 1999, the road was interrupted by avalanches for 13 days and in January 2018 by a debris flow for 3 days.

Frutigen is a station on the Lötschberg line . From there there is usually an hourly connection with the Frutigen-Adelboden car transport company (AFA). Adelboden has numerous mountain railways and local bus routes to Ausserschwand, Stigelschwand and Boden-Unter dem Birg (-Engstligenalp). You can walk from Engstligenalp (mountain railway) via the Chindbettipass to the Gemmipass and into the Valais, via the Hahnenmoospass (mountain railway) into the Simmental or via the Bunderchrinde into the Kandertal.

Art and culture

See also : List of cultural assets in Adelboden

• late Gothic village church from the 15th century with frescoes from the 15th century and stained glass windows by Augusto Giacometti from 1936.

music

• Chamber music festival
• Alpine country meeting Engstligenalp (last Sunday in August)

schools

There is a primary school , secondary school and secondary school in Adelboden .

Scenic sights

Lower Engstligenfall

• Engstligen Falls : The Engstlige falls almost 400 m and forms one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the Bernese Oberland. The alpine lift is impressive in summer, when 350 cows and cattle pull up the narrow mule track through the rock face next to the waterfall.
• Engstligenalp : plateau at 2000 m altitude, wheelchair-accessible circular route
• Cholerenschlucht: deeply cut, accessible
• Chuenisbärgli , is considered the most difficult giant slalom slope of the Alpine Ski World Cup , 2005/06 newly built chairlift with mountain station, cozy mountain restaurant
• Furggi , the highest alp

Floodplain areas

There have been three protected floodplain areas of national importance in the Adelboden area since 2003 :

• Engstligenalp (alpine flood plain), No. 1352
• Hornbrügg at the end of the Gilbachtal (subalpine flood plain ), No. 323
• Lochweid rear part of Tschentental (montane flood plain), No. 324

Personalities

• Carlo Pellegrini (1866–1937), painter, active in Geneva and Adelboden
• Alfred Bärtschi (1890–1976), Swiss teacher, author and editor of the Adelboden book
• Carmen Mory (1906–1947), Gestapo agent , during World War II
• Fritz Tschannen (1920–2011), ski jumper
• Willy Klopfenstein (1921–2002), ski jumper
• Jakob Aellig (1922–2007), author and editor of the Adelboden letter of origin
• Fred Rubi , (1926–1997) ski racer, spa director, mayor and SP National Councilor
• Frieda Dänzer (1930–2015), ski racer
• Josy Doyon-Hofstetter (1932–2011), mountain farmer and writer
• Margrit Fankhauser (* 1935), Protestant Reformed pastor and author
• Hildi Hari-Wäfler (* 1935), Salvation Army officer and author
• Christian Bärtschi (* 1939), educator, author, columnist and co-editor Heimatbrief
• Konrad Hari (* 1940), hotelier and EPP Councilor
• Adolf Rösti (* 1947), ski racer
• Annerösli Zryd (* 1949), ski racer
• Erwin Josi (* 1955), ski racer (downhill)
• Peter Aellig (* 1956), ski racer (slalom) and farmer
• Urs Bärtschi (* 1957), ice hockey player and coach
• Erwin Burn (* 1957), civil engineer, entrepreneur and EDU Councilor 1994–2011
• Jürg Zimmermann (* 1957), medicinal chemist and inventor of the cancer drug Glivec
• Hans Pieren (* 1962), ski racer, entrepreneur and FIS race director
• Hans Burn (* 1965), disabled skier
• Marlies Oester (* 1976), ski racer
• Konrad Hari (* 1978), ski racer
• Tanja Pieren (* 1978), ski racer
• Karin Maurer (* 1980), paraglider pilot
• Chrigel Maurer (* 1982), paraglider pilot (with championship titles and records)
• Schmid brothers, ski pioneers (Peter, Sepp, Hans, Christian and Albert)

literature

• Adelboden Tourism: Adelboden: Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow. 600 years. Egger, Frutigen 2010, ISBN 978-3-9520760-7-1 (preface by Peter Loosli and Christian Bärtschi, illustrated by Peter Klopfenstein, contributions by Reto Koller).
• Jakob Aellig, Christian Bärtschi: Adelbodetütsch. Egger, Frutigen 2006, ISBN 3-9520760-4-X .
• Jakob Aellig: 125 years of Hotel Hari im Schlegeli. 1873-1998.
• Sigi Amstutz, Christian Bärtschi: It's always here. Stories from the Frünschland and Saanenland with illustrations by the painter Angelo Molinari (1914–1966). In The Field.
• Alfred Bärtschi: The Adelboden book. Paul Haupt, Bern 1966.
• Christian Bärtschi: Ds Nieseliecht: Erlabts un Ersinets us em Frutigtal. Egger, Frutigen 2014, ISBN 978-3-9520760-8-8 .
• Christian Bärtschi: Ä Welbi. Adelbodetütschi history. Egger, Frutigen 2015, ISBN 978-3-9520760-9-5 .
• Christian Bärtschi: The Haaggestäcke. Wyteri adelbodetütischi history. Egger, Frutigen 2017, ISBN 978-3-033-06393-8 .
• Josy Doyon-Hofstetter : In the shadow of the wage earner. From the life of a 102 year old woman from Adelboden. Blaukreuz, Bern 1974 (biography of the mountain farmer Rösi Hari, who lived 1874–1976).
• Josy Doyon-Hofstetter: Gray gold. Story from the Engstligental. Blaukreuz, Bern 1976, ISBN 3-85580-054-5 .
• Josy Doyon-Hofstetter: Flowers for a Sunday child. Story from Adelboden. Blaukreuz, Bern 1982, ISBN 3-85580-140-1 .
• Margrit Fankhauser: The man with the trumpet. A crime story. Berchtold Haller, Bern 2003.
• Alfred Gutknecht, Albert Schranz: 575 years of Adelboden Church. Reformed parish Adelboden, 2008.
• Hildi Hari-Wäfler: Rocky, barren and hopeful green. A childhood in Adelboden . Neufeld Verlag , Schwarzenfeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-937896-86-1 (novel-like biography of a childhood in the 1930s and 1940s in Adelboden).
• Isn't my valley emitts. Maria Lauber (1891–1973). Reading book. Edited by the Frutigland Cultural Property Foundation. Zytglogge, Bern 2016.
• Max Lüscher and Peter Klopfenstein: 100 Years of Light and Water Works Adelboden AG 1902–2002. 2002.
• Christian Bärtschi, Toni Koller, Fredi Lerch: Adelboden Volume 2 (Adelboden in the 20th century). Adelboden municipality, 2016.
• Peter Klopfenstein, Christian Bärtschi, Toni Koller: Adelboden in old views. Werd & Weber Verlag, Thun 2018.
• Christian Bärtschi, Toni Koller: Adelbodmer dictionaries. Photo Klopfenstein, Adelboden 2019.

Web links

Commons : Adelboden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality of Adelboden
• Anne-Marie Dubler : Adelboden. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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. ↑ ^{a b} Gabrielle Schmid: Adelboden BE (Frutigen) 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 , pp. 74f.
3. ↑ Climate table. In: meteoschweiz.admin.ch. meteoschweiz, accessed on June 1, 2018 . 
4. ^ [History] Municipality of Adelboden. Retrieved November 23, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Jakob Aellig: 125 years of Hotel Hari in Schlegeli. 1873-1998.
6. ↑ Jakob Aellig and Christian Bärtschi: Adelbodetütsch. 3rd edition, Egger, Frutigen 2006, ISBN 3-9520760-4-X .
7. ↑ Results of the Adelboden community. State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern, October 18, 2015, accessed on October 30, 2016 . 
8. ^ Adelboden leisure and sports arena
9. ↑ weltcup-adelboden.ch ( Memento from September 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDbMilCWKWA
11. ↑ When Adelboden was unreachable for two weeks. In: Nau , January 5, 2018
12. ↑ World Cup race in Adelboden secured - road can be used in one lane ( memento from January 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
13. ^ Carlo Pellegrini. In: Sikart , accessed January 15, 2016.
14. ↑ Christoph Zürcher: Bärtschi, Alfred. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
15. ↑ The lifesaver from Adelboden . Article in Der Bund of July 20, 2009
16. ↑ hiimatbrief.wordpress.com