Albligen

Albligen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Bern-Mittelland
Residential municipality :	Schwarzenburg
Postal code :	3183
former BFS no. :	0851
Coordinates :	590 792  /  189013 coordinates: 46 ° 51 '8 "  N , 7 ° 19' 4"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred and ninety thousand seven hundred and ninety-two  /  189013
Height :	699  m above sea level M.
Area :	4.28  km²
Residents:	468 (December 31, 2009)
Population density :	109 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.albligen.ch
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2011

Albligen (in local dialect : [ ˈɑu̯b̥lig̊ə ]; French. Albenon ) is a village in the political municipality of Schwarzenburg in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district of the canton of Bern in Switzerland . Before the union with voters on January 1, 2011, Albligen was an independent municipality with the hamlets of Harris , Wallismatt and Änetmoos .

geography

Albligen is located in the Swiss Plateau on a small hill on the Höchi hill (818 m above sea level). The Sense flows in the east on the municipal boundary .

politics

Village center with church

In addition to the residents' community, there are two civic communities : the Dorf-Burgergemeinde and the Harris-Burgergemeinde . There is also an Evangelical Reformed parish called Albligen.

population

Over a period of 70 years there was a slight decrease in the number of inhabitants in Albligen until 1960. In 1880 there were 700 inhabitants. Much of the population decline is due to an exodus from agriculture. Since 1960, the number of inhabitants has been 420 with minor fluctuations, with an increasing trend being recorded in recent years. The population was 468 at the end of 2009.

traffic

Grave sculpture at the community grave

For centuries the connection to the rest of the Schwarzenburg office was arduous. After a first footbridge (1743), the first covered bridge was built over the Sense in 1826, which greatly facilitated traffic on the Schwarzenburg - Albligen - Ueberstorf axis. The current road layout was laid out in 1874. From this year the traffic was handled by a stagecoach, which traveled twice from Flamatt to Schwarzenburg.

The main carrier today is the cantonal road that leads from Flamatt to Schwarzenburg. Post car courses also connect Albligen to the Flamatt train station. A small school bus brings secondary school students from Alblig to Schwarzenburg and back.

The village offers shopping and meeting opportunities. The Gasthof Bären, owned by the Dorfburger parish, was reopened. The village shop with a comprehensive range and fresh bread every day is located in the Bärenscheune and has become an important meeting place for the population.

history

Rectory and Church (1829)

Patrician house in Kurried

The place is first mentioned in 1148 as Albennon . In the 14th century the name initially appears as Albennen / Albenden , from 1346 as Alblingen ; Perhaps it goes back to a vulgar Latin personal name * Albione and was later redesigned to -ingen based on the example of the numerous place names .

As part of the Grasburg lordship, which had been pledged to the Counts of Savoy since 1310, Albligen was subordinate to the cities of Bern and Friborg in the Üechtland after their sale in 1423, and in the Helvetic region came first to the canton of Friborg , then in 1803 to the canton of Bern .

The community ran a tavern (1734) and an oven house. In addition to agriculture, sandstone was mined. In the hamlet of Kurried there is a Freiburg patrician seat built in 1727 (including the Müller family, Praroman ).

In a referendum in the church on September 18, 2008, the population voted extremely tightly, with 101 to 94 votes, in favor of entering into merger investigations with the Bernese neighboring community of Wahlern - after the community council had advocated this, with the one in the canton of Friborg neighboring municipality Ueberstorf to start negotiations on a merger.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Schwarzenburg

Web links

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

• Website of the municipality of Albligen 2010, before the merger with Schwarzenburg
• Anne-Marie Dubler : Albligen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Andres Kristol: Albligen BE (Schwarzenburg) 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. 81.
2. ↑ http://www.wahlern.ch/de/politik-verwaltung-gemeinden/fusionsverhandlungen-albligen-wahlern.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Anne-Marie Dubler : Albligen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .