Burgdorf district

Burgdorf district
Basic data
Country:	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Main town :	Burgdorf
Area :	197.30 km²
Residents:	46,127 (December 31, 2008)
Population density :	234 inhabitants per km²
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The Burgdorf district was an administrative unit of the Canton of Bern until December 31, 2009 . The seat of the governor was Burgdorf Castle in Burgdorf . The district comprised 24 communities on 197.30 km²:

Communities

Name of the parish	Population (December 31, 2008)	Area in km²	Inhabitants per km²
Aefligen	1006	2.04	493
Alchenstorf	565	6.57	86
Bäriswil	991	2.73	363
Burgdorf BE	15'238	15.56	979
Ersigen	1483	8.76	169
Hasle near Burgdorf	3081	21.89	141
Heimiswil	1626	23.36	70
Clairvoyant	181	1.48	122
Hindelbank	2006	6.75	297
Höchstetten BE	257	2.64	97
Kernenried	426	3.33	128
Kirchberg BE	5608	9.05	620
Koppigen	2069	6.93	299
Krauchthal	2273	19.43	117
Lyssach	1390	6.05	230
Mötschwil	138	2.95	47
Niederösch	226	4.60	49
Oberburg BE	2846	14.14	201
Oberösch	110	2.10	52
Rüdtligen-Alchenflüh	2169	2.72	797
Rumendingen	81	2.44	33
Rüti near Lyssach	157	1.29	122
Willadingen	181	2.17	83
Wynigen	2019	28.32	71
Total (24)	46,127	197.30	234

Changes in the community

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  Municipalities until 1886

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  Municipalities until 1887

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  Municipalities until 1910

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  Municipalities until 1925

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  Municipalities until 2009

• 1887: Merger of Brechershäusern and Wynigen → Wynigen
• 1888: Alchenstorf and Wil near Koppigen → Alchenstorf merge
• 1911: Merger of Bickigen-Schwanden and Wynigen → Wynigen
• 1911: Change of name Mötschwil-Schleumen → Mötschwil
• 1926: Change of name Rüdtligen → Rüdtligen-Alchenflüh
• 2010: District change from Bäriswil from the Burgdorf district to the Bern-Mittelland administrative district
• 2010: District change of all other 23 municipalities from the Burgdorf district → Emmental district

literature

• Anne-Marie Dubler : The legal sources of the Canton of Bern, Part Two: Rights of the Landscape, Volume 9: The legal sources of the city of Burgdorf and its lordships and the Burgdorf mayor's office (= Swiss Lawyers Association. Legal Sources Foundation [Ed.]: Collection of Swiss Legal Sources . II. Department). Sauerländer, Aarau 1995, ISBN 3-7941-4010-9 ( online ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Statistical Office