Aegerten

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Aegerten
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Biel / Bienne
BFS no. :	0731
Postal code :	2558
Coordinates :	588 715  /  218819 coordinates: 47 ° 7 '13 "  N , 7 ° 17' 24"  O ; CH1903:  588,715  /  218819
Height :	433  m above sea level M.
Height range :	427-590 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.16  km²
Residents:	2159 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1000 inhabitants per km²
Mayor :	Stefan Krattiger ( SP )
Website:	www.aegerten.ch
Aegerten
Location of the municipality

Aegerten (in local dialect : [ ˈæg̊əɾtə / ˈæg̊əɾd̥ə ]) is a municipality in the Biel / Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland . In addition to the community of residents, there is also a community of citizens under this name.

Surname

The place name appears for the first time in 1214 as a designation of origin for a Rodulfus de Egedun and is later documented several times in the form Egerdon . It is the locativically used dative of the singular from mhd. Egerde / egerte 'fallow land, unsuitable land for arable farming'. In the time of the so-called Aegertenwirtschaft , as the forerunner of the three-field economy, Aegerte (n) referred to a piece of land that, after two years of use as arable land, lay fallow for as long.

geography

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1970

The neighboring communities are Studen , Jens , Port , Brügg and Schwadernau . Aegerten has now grown together with Brügg, Studen and Schwadernau.

population

Aegerten is 90.92% a German-speaking community. 4.21% are French-speaking.

politics

Stefan Krattiger has been mayor since 2010 (as of January 2018).

Aegerten had been investigating mergers with the neighboring municipality of Brügg since around 2004. However, in 2011 it was decided not to pursue the project any further. The following political parties are active in village politics: local association (bourgeois party) and SP-Aegerten with free voters (center / left). The voting behavior of the citizens is rather bourgeois, but Aegerten has a center / left government.

The voting shares of the parties on the occasion of the National Council elections in 2015 were: SVP 38.9%, SP 23.0%, BDP 14.6%, FDP 8.2%, glp 4.1%, EPP 3.2%, GPS 2.4 %, EDU 1.9%, CVP 1.7%.

Impressions

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  Entrance

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  Half-timbered house in the center of the village

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  Goldhubel

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  Aegerten– Brügg railway bridge

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Aegerten

Sports

Aegerten is home to several sports clubs, including the street hockey club SHC Aegerten-Biel and the soccer club SC Aegerten-Brügg.

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Aegerten
• Anne-Marie Dubler : Aegerten. 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: Aegerten BE (Nidau), in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss municipality names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 77. The phonetic transcription given : [ ˈægərtə, ˈægərdə ].
3. ↑ Alfred Helfenstein: The Namengut Pilate territory. Keller, Luzern 1982, ISBN 3-85766-004-X , p. 44 f.
4. ↑ Elections 2015: Results of the municipality of Aegerten. Canton of Bern, accessed on March 22, 2016.