Trachselwald district

Trachselwald district
Basic data
Country:	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Main town :	Trachselwald
Area :	191.04 km²
Residents:	23,279 (December 31, 2008)
Population density :	122 inhabitants per km²
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The Trachselwald district was an administrative unit of the Canton of Bern until December 31, 2009 . The seat of the governor was Trachselwald Castle in Trachselwald . The district comprised ten municipalities with 23,279 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2008) on 191.04 km²:

Communities

Name of the parish	Population (December 31, 2008)	Area in km²	Inhabitants per km²
Affoltern in the Emmental	1161	11.51	101
Dürrenroth	1049	14.13	74
Eriswil	1373	11.34	121
Huttwil	4690	17.24	272
Lützelflüh	4123	26.87	153
Rüegsau	3031	15.06	201
Sumiswald	5084	59.34	86
Trachselwald	1038	15.96	65
Walterswil	558	7.90	71
Wyssachen	1172	11.69	100
Total (10)	23,279	191.04	122

Changes in the community

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  Municipalities until 1907

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  Municipalities until 2009

• 1908: Change of name Wyssachengraben → Wyssachen
• 2010: District change Eriswil , Huttwil , Walterswil and Wyssachen from the Trachselwald district → Oberaargau district
• 2010: District change Affoltern im Emmental , Dürrenroth , Lützelflüh , Rüegsau , Sumiswald and Trachselwald from the Trachselwald district → Emmental district

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• Anne-Marie Dubler : The legal sources of the Canton of Bern, Part Two: Rights of the Landscape, Volume 8: The Law of the Emmental Landscape (Signau and Trachselwald districts since 1803) (= Swiss Lawyers Association. Legal Sources Foundation [ed.]: Collection of Swiss legal sources . II . Department). Sauerländer, Aarau 1991, ISBN 3-7941-3107-X ( online ).

Web links

Commons : District Trachselwald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Statistical Office