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Ballmoos coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton BernCanton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district : Bern-Mittellandw
Residential municipality : Jegenstorfi2
Postal code : 3303
former BFS no. : 0531
Coordinates : 602623  /  209981 coordinates: 47 ° 2 '27 "  N , 7 ° 28' 23"  O ; CH1903:  602623  /  209981
Height : 567  m above sea level M.
Area : 1.5  km²
Residents: 53 (December 31, 2009)
Population density : 35 inhabitants per km²
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Ballmoos (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2010

Ballmoos was until December 31, 2009 a municipality in the district of Fraubrunnen in the canton of Bern in Switzerland . With effect from January 1, 2010, Ballmoos merged with Jegenstorf to form the Jegenstorf municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district .

geography

Ballmoos is 567  m above sea level. M. , 11 km north of the canton capital Bern (linear distance). The small village extends on a hill in the southeastern part of the Rapperswil plateau in the Swiss Central Plateau , north of the valley of Moss Lake .

The area of ​​the 1.5 km² former municipal area comprised a section of the central Bernese plateau. The municipality floor extended from the Moos plateau ( 555  m above sea level ) southwards over the moraine hill of Ballmoos to the forest hill of Buechholz (at 580  m above sea level, the highest elevation in Ballmoos) and Rädisried . In the east, the forests of Oberholz and Unterholz as well as the Fuchsacker belonged to Ballmoos. The area is drained by the Moosbach to the east to the Urtenen . In 1997, 4% of the former municipal area was in settlements, 22% in forests and woodlands, 73% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Neighboring communities of Ballmoos were Zuzwil (BE) , Jegenstorf , Urtenen-Schönbühl , Wiggiswil and Deisswil near Münchenbuchsee .

population

With 54 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2008) Ballmoos was one of the smallest communities in the canton of Bern. 98.4% of the residents are German-speaking and 1.6% French-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Ballmoos was 45 inhabitants in 1850 and 78 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population has always fluctuated between 50 and 70 people.

economy

Ballmoos still lives from agriculture , in particular from arable farming , fruit growing and dairy farming . There are no other jobs in the village outside of the primary sector. Some employees are commuters who work in the Bern agglomeration.

traffic

The village is located off the major thoroughfare on a connecting road from Münchenbuchsee to Jegenstorf. The closest connection to the A6 motorway (Bern-Biel) is around 6 km from the town center. Ballmoos has no connection to the public transport network.

history

The Ballmoos area was settled very early, which has been proven by individual finds from the Bronze Age . The first written mention of the place took place in 1269 under the name Banmoos . The names Banemoos (1270), Pannemos (1274), Balmis (1388) and Balmmoss (1437) appeared later .

Since the Middle Ages , Ballmoos was the seat of a family of servants, the Counts of Kyburg , who called themselves von Banmoos. The Johanniterkomturei in Münchenbuchsee also had rich property in the area of ​​the village. Since 1406, sovereignty over the area near Bern was incumbent. After this commandery had been secularized in 1528, Ballmoos was assigned to the Landvogtei Münchenbuchsee in the Zollikofen district court . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village belonged to the Zollikofen district during the Helvetic Republic and from 1803 to the Fraubrunnen Oberamt, which received the status of an official district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831. Today Ballmoos works closely with the neighboring community of Zuzwil. On January 1, 2010 the merger with Jegenstorf took place. Ballmoos does not have its own church, it belongs to the Jegenstorf-Urtenen parish.

Attractions

The village has preserved several characteristic farmhouses of the Bernese country style from the 17th to 19th centuries.

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