Konolfingen district

Konolfingen district
Basic data
Country:	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Main town :	Schlosswil
Area :	213.55 km²
Residents:	57,573 (December 31, 2008)
Population density :	270 inhabitants per km²
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The Konolfingen district was an administrative unit of the Canton of Bern until December 31, 2009 . The administrative district with the main town Schlosswil , where the governor resided in Schloss Wil , comprised 30 communities on 213.55 km²:

Communities

Name of the parish	Population (December 31, 2008)	Area in km²	Inhabitants per km²
Aeschlen near Oberdiessbach	301	4.90	61
Allmendingen	498	3.81	131
Arni (BE)	975	10.43	93
Biglen	1740	3.59	485
Bleiken near Oberdiessbach	377	3.40	111
Bowil	1381	14.69	94
Brenzikofen	555	2.19	253
Open greases	406	2.96	137
Grosshöchstetten	3168	3.47	913
Skinned	231	3.07	75
Herbigen	546	2.76	198
Pebbles	789	4.69	168
Konolfingen	4739	12.77	371
Landiswil	641	10.26	62
Linden trees	1326	13.23	100
Mirchel	536	2.34	229
Münsingen	11,023	8.50	1297
Prostrate	647	5.42	119
Oberdiessbach	2880	8.20	351
Oberhünigen	344	6.01	57
Oberthal	804	10.54	76
Oppligen	641	3.40	189
Rubigen	2746	6.92	397
Schlosswil	651	3.46	188
Tagertschi	389	3.62	107
Trim stone	480	3.62	133
Walk wrestling	1822	17.21	106
Wichtrach	4012	11.60	346
Worb	11,359	21.08	539
Zziwil	1566	5.41	289
Total (30)	57,573	213.55	270

Changes in the community

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  Parishes until 1869

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  Municipalities until 1887

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  Municipalities until 1901

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  Municipalities until 1932

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  Municipalities until 1945

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  Municipalities until 1979

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  Municipalities until 1982

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  Municipalities until 1992

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  Municipalities until 2003

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  Municipalities until 2009

• 1870: Name change from Diessbach → Oberdiessbach
• 1888: Merger of Ausserbirrmoos , Perschwand and Schönthal → Ausserbirrmoos
• 1888: Merger of Hauben and Oberdiessbach → Oberdiessbach
• 1902: Name change from Höchstetten → Grosshöchstetten
• 1902: Name change from Wil (BE) → Schlosswil
• 1933: Gysenstein and Stalden merge in the Emmental → Konolfingen
• 1946: Merger of Ausserbirrmoos , Innerbirrmoos and Otterbach → Linden
• 1980: Split from Schlosswil → Oberhünigen
• 1983: Name change from Arni → Arni (BE)
• 1993: Spin-off from Rubigen → Allmendingen near Bern and Trimstein
• 2004: Merger of Niederwichtrach and Oberwichtrach → Wichtrach
• 2010: Aeschlen near Oberdiessbach and Oberdiessbach → Oberdiessbach
• 2010: District change of all 30 municipalities from the Konolfingen district → Bern-Mittelland administrative district

literature

• Ernst Werder: The legal sources of the Canton of Bern, Part Two: Rights of the Landscape, Volume 4: The Law of the Konolfingen Regional Court (= Swiss Lawyers Association. Legal Sources Foundation [Ed.]: Collection of Swiss Legal Sources . II. Department). Sauerländer, Aarau 1950, DNB  453942210 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Bezirk Konolfingen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Anne-Marie Dubler : Konolfingen (district). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Statistical Office