Aefligen

Aefligen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Emmental
BFS no. :	0401
Postal code :	3426
Coordinates :	608 994  /  215900 coordinates: 47 ° 5 '39 "  N , 7 ° 33' 26"  O ; CH1903:  608994  /  215900
Height :	497  m above sea level M.
Height range :	483–500 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.04  km²
Residents:	1090 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	495 inhabitants per km²
Mayor :	Urs Frank ( SVP )
Website:	www.aefligen.ch
Aefligen, taken from a balloon on April 16, 2011
Location of the municipality

Aefligen (in local dialect : [ ˈæflig̊ə ]) is a municipality in the Emmental administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

geography

Aefligen is located in the lower Emmental , in the northwest corner of the former administrative district of Burgdorf . The village is located directly on the Emme and the Burgdorf - Solothurn railway line . Aefligen borders on the communities Rüdtligen-Alchenflüh , Fraubrunnen , Bätterkinden , Utzenstorf and Kirchberg .

politics

The voting shares of the parties in the 2019 National Council election were: SVP 45.2%, SP 11.9%, BDP 11.7%, glp 6.8%, GPS 5.4%, EVP 6.5%, FDP 4.3 %, EDU 2.4%, DU 1.4%, SD 1.1%.

traffic

The community is located on the cantonal road from Fraubrunnen to Utzenstorf and Kirchberg, where the A1 motorway runs . The BLS operates run a train station from where trains to Burgdorf and Solothurn in Aefligen.

history

Historic aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer from 1933

The first mention of the place as Efflingen goes back to a land register of the Counts of Kyburg from 1261 / '63 and is received in a copy from the 15th century. The place name, which appeared in 1267 as Effelingin , 1279 as Eflingen and 1280 / '82 as Afflingen , is derived from an Old High German personal name with the affiliation suffix -ing - and means something like ' among the people of * Affilo / * Effilo '. 

In 1429 the administrative rights of the Kirchberg farm (today Kirchberg parish) passed to the city of Bern, which took over the entire area in 1481. From now on, Aefligen was militarily part of the Burgdorf district and civil law to the Lower Court of Bätterkinden in the Landshut district. In 1798 it was fully assigned to the Burgdorf district. In 1910 the last major flood occurred through the Emme. After various flood disasters, which Jeremias Gotthelf also described, dams were built on both sides of the Emme from the middle of the 19th century. 

See also

• List of cultural assets in Aefligen

Web links

Commons : Aefligen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Aefligen.
• Anne-Marie Dubler : Aefligen. 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} Andres Kristol: Äfligen BE (Burgdorf) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community 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. 76. Quoted phonetic transcription : [ ˈæfligə ].
3. ^ Results of the community of Aefligen. State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern, accessed on July 21, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Aefligen and its history .