Aarberg District

Aarberg District
Basic data
Country:	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Main town :	Aarberg
Area :	152.68 km²
Residents:	34,229 (December 31, 2008)
Population density :	224 inhabitants per km²
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The district of Aarberg is an administrative unit in the canton of Bern with the capital Aarberg . The Bernese administrative districts were assigned to the administrative regions and administrative districts on January 1, 2010, but are still anchored in the cantonal constitution. It includes twelve parishes. The district had 34,229 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2008) on 152.68 km².

history

Aarberg Castle, seat of the bailiff of Aarberg, aquatint by Jakob Samuel Weibel (around 1825)

Aarberg Castle (2010)

Landvogtei Aarberg

The Office Aarberg was from 1358 a bailiwick of the city and Republic of Berne in Switzerland . It consisted of the town of Aarberg and the parishes of Affoltern, Bargen, Kappelen, Kallnach, Lyss and Radelfingen. Count Peter II pledged «1351 his town, castle and county Aarberg to the city of Bern». The remaining claims and pledges had to be bought. 1379 by the Countess von Thierstein , born von Nidau, and by the Countess von Kyburg , also born von Nidau. Since the purchase of the bailiwick was not completely correct from the start due to these claims, the bailiff was initially not administered by a local bailiff, but by the mayor of Bern . Not until 1395 was a bailiff sent to Aarberg.

See also : List of the bailiffs of Aarberg

Communities

Name of the parish	Population (December 31, 2008)	Area in km²	Inhabitants per km²
Aarberg	3963	7.93	500
Barges (BE)	986	7.86	125
Big mouths	2823	15.08	187
Kallnach	1513	10.60	143
Kappelen	1194	10.97	109
Lyss	11'423	11.80	968
Meikirch	2380	10.23	233
Niederried near Kallnach	286	4.59	62
Radelfingen	1178	14.71	80
Rapperswil	2120	18.20	116
Scoop	3374	19.84	170
Seedorf (BE)	2989	20.87	143
Total (12)	34,229	152.68	224

Changes in the community

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  Parishes until 1859

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  Municipalities until 2009

• 1860: Change of name from Affoltern → Grossaffoltern
• 2010: Change of district of Meikirch from the Aarberg district → Bern-Mittelland administrative district
• 2010: District change of all other 12 municipalities from the Aarberg district → Seeland administrative district

literature

• Anne-Marie Dubler : Aarberg (rule, district). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Statistical Office
2. ↑ KV (BSG 101.1), Art. 3, Paragraph 2 ( online ).
3. ↑ Hans Jacob Leu : General Helvetisches, Eydgenössisches or Schweitzerisches Lexicon , Volume 1, Zurich, 1747, p. 318 f. ( Google Books ).