Hondrich mountain farming school
| Inforama Bernese Oberland | |
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| type of school | Vocational school , agricultural school , |
| founding | 1919 Brienz Alpine School 1952 Hondrich Mountain Farming School 1998 Inforama Bernese Oberland |
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| place | Hondrich near Spiez |
| Canton | Bern |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 618 521 / 169198 |
| carrier | Canton Bern |
| management | Bernhard Berger |
| Website | www.inforama.vol.be.ch |
The Hondrich Mountain Farming School ( Inforama Bernese Oberland since 1998 ) is a competence center for mountain agriculture and housekeeping for all valleys of the Bernese Oberland . It was founded in Brienz in 1919 as an alpine school, relocated to Hondrich near Spiez in 1952 and is one of six regional Inforama locations with various educational focuses in the canton of Bern .
history
Agricultural training began with the Rütti agricultural school founded in 1860 (now Inforama Rütti ) in Zollikofen . The Rütti boarding school was the first state agricultural school in the canton of Bern. It was opened on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the Economic Society . Albert von Fellenberg (1819–1902), editor of the “Bernische Blätter für Landwirtschaft” (today a Swiss farmer ), president of the Economic Society of the Canton of Bern and co-founder of the Swiss Alpine Association (1863) had repeatedly advocated the establishment of a state institute.
Brienz Alpine School
In 1910, the Swiss Alpine Association (SAV) took the initiative to found a technical school for Alpine and mountain agriculture. In 1919 the Brienz Alpine School was set up with school and boarding rooms in a hotel in Brienz. She did not yet have her own land or farm. In 1920 the first alpine dairy course was held with 55 people.
Hondrich mountain farming school
In 1952, the training was relocated to the whole of the Bernese Oberland as the Hondrich mountain farming school . The school building was built in 1951 by the architects Edgar Schweizer, Thun and Steiner, Spiez using a block construction. Like the management building and the show dairy, it has characteristics of the local architecture.
The main concern of the school was to give the farming families a professional background through training and advice and to strengthen them economically. The regional food production should be promoted and thus the decentralized settlement in the mountain regions should be preserved. Agricultural training and advice should support farmers in sustainable management and product quality so that they can produce healthy, competitive and tasty food.
As teachers and consultants in Brienz and Hondrich, father and son Hans Ruch promoted the quality of Bernese alpine cheese from 1919 to 1986. Lessons took place for the students in winter and for the students in summer. It was only with the housekeeping school building erected in 1968/69 that all summer and winter courses could be held.
The six alumni associations of the Brienz-Hondrich housekeeping, Waldhofschülerinnen, Rütti-Seeland-Waldhof, Alpschüler Brienz-Hondrich, Schwand and Bäregg belong to (2011) 13,500 graduates, all of them practicing Bernese farmers.
Inforama Bernese Oberland
The six Inforama locations offer everything from basic vocational training to vocational school to advanced technical college. As a result of the sharp decline in beekeepers and bee colonies, courses have been held in the Inforama Rütti and the Plantahof in Landquart since the end of 2014 to obtain the federal beekeeping certificate. Around 1500 people attend the various courses each year.
The focus of education in the Inforama Bernese Oberland is agricultural (mountain farming) and home economics education and advice as well as a regional advice center. In the summer months it offers space for meetings and courses. Alpine cheese courses are offered in the school's own cheese dairy.
In addition to the school buildings for the mountain farming and housekeeping school and the school cheese dairy, the Hondrich location has a pig and cattle barn, a greenhouse, an advice center, a machine hall, a cattle demo room and a wood and metal workshop.
literature
- Peter Siegenthaler et al .: 75 years of the LBBZ Hondrich mountain farming school in the Bernese Oberland . Anniversary publication 1994.
Web links
- Jungfrau newspaper of March 26, 2004: Completed a school of life. Graduation ceremony of the agricultural school at the Inforama Bernese Oberland
- Jungfrauzeitung from September 5, 2009: Tackling the challenges of the future. 90th anniversary celebrated with a big Hondrich festival
- Jungfrau newspaper from May 15, 2010: 150 years on the pulse of nature. Anniversary and open day in Inforama
- Farmer's newspaper from April 29, 2015, Bern: Inforama-Gutsbetrieb should continue to be an organic farm
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berner Zeitung of January 16, 2010: From breeder to wellness companion
- ↑ Aargauerzeitung from August 3, 2011: The sudden silence of the farmers' lobby
- ↑ Beekeeping School Switzerland: Beekeepers with a federal certificate ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Canton of Bern, Inforama: Inforama locations and educational focuses
