Bettenhausen BE
BE is the abbreviation for the canton of Bern in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Bettenhausen . |
Bettenhausen | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Bern (BE) |
Administrative district : | Oberaargau |
BFS no. : | 0973 |
Postal code : | 3366 |
Coordinates : | 620999 / 224644 |
Height : | 481 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 466-598 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 3.94 km² |
Residents: | 631 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 160 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | www.betthausen.ch |
Location of the municipality | |
Bettenhausen is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .
On January 1, 2011, the municipality of Bollodingen merged with Bettenhausen.
geography
Bettenhausen lies at 480 m above sea level. M. , 2 km south-south-east of Herzogenbuchsee and 7 km south-west of the city of Langenthal (linear distance). The Strassenzeilendorf extends in the Altachental plain on the northern edge of the Molasse hill country of the higher Mittelland (Buchsiberge), in Oberaargau .
The area of the 2.0 km² municipal area comprises a section of the northern Bernese Plateau with little relief . The southern part of the municipality lies in the approximately 1 km wide plain of the Altachental, with the border on the southern edge running along the edge of the forest that rises to the Humberg . To the north, the municipality extends into the ground moraine landscape , which is only about 10 to 15 m higher on average and which was formed by the Ice Age Rhone glacier . On a wooded moraine wall northwest of the village is 522 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point in Bettenhausen. In the far west the area extends into the valley of the Önz . In 1997, 12% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 15% for forests and woodlands and 73% for agriculture.
The settlement of Holz ( 484 m above sea level ) , which adjoins the village to the west, and the Matten farm ( 472 m above sea level ) in the Önztal belong to Bettenhausen. The neighboring communities of Bettenhausen are Hermiswil , Herzogenbuchsee , Ochlenberg , Steinhof and Thörigen .
population
With 631 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Bettenhausen is one of the small communities in the canton of Bern. 98.1% of the residents are German-speaking, 0.8% French-speaking and 0.4% speak Turkish (as of 2000). The population of Bettenhausen was 433 in 1850 and 390 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population decreased slightly to 355 people by 1980. Since then, the population has increased significantly again.
Water supply
The water supply is the responsibility of the municipal association of water supply on the lower Oenz (WVOe). Like many other water suppliers, the WVOe has to contend with chlorothalonil metabolites . Water samples from 2019 showed that the applicable maximum values were exceeded in four of the WVOe's drinking water catchments. As a result of the heat and drought in 2019 , customers were asked in July of the same year to reduce their water consumption .
economy
Bettenhausen was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . Even today, have agriculture and livestock an important role in the employment structure of the population. Other jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including a carpenter's workshop. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many employed people are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Langenthal-Herzogenbuchsee region.
traffic
The community is located away from the major thoroughfares, but can be easily reached from the Herzogenbuchsee regional center . Bettenhausen is connected to the public transport network by a bus line that serves the route from Herzogenbuchsee to Langenthal .
history
Individual finds from the Neolithic on the Allmend and the Rüti attest to a very early settlement of the municipality of Bettenhausen. The Romans maintained a control room on the moraine hill northwest of the village . The place was first mentioned in a document in 1335 under the name Bettenhusen . Later the names Betenhusen (1361) and Bettelhusen (1415) appeared. The place name goes back to the Old High German personal name Betto or Petto and therefore means in the houses of Betto / Petto .
In the Middle Ages , Bettenhausen belonged to the barons of Aarburg, who sold their rights to the city of Burgdorf in 1429 . The village was assigned to the Burgdorf-controlled Landvogtei Lotzwil , but the high level of jurisdiction was always incumbent on the Bernese Landvogt in Wangen (since 1460 also regulated by contract). The Holz settlement on the western edge of the village was a typical Taun settlement . The rural proletariat used to be assigned their own settlement areas on the outskirts of the village. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Bettenhausen belonged to the district of Wangen during the Helvetic Republic and from 1803 to the Oberamt Wangen, which received the status of an official district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831.
Attractions
The village has preserved some characteristic farmhouses of the Bernese country style from the 18th and 19th centuries. Bettenhausen does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Herzogenbuchsee.
Web links
- Official website of the community of Bettenhausen
- Anne-Marie Dubler : Bettenhausen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Permanent resident population from STAT-TAB of the BfS , municipalities see also regional portraits 2020 on bfs.admin.ch, accessed on May 29, 2020
- ↑ http://www.wasserversorgung-oenz.ch/Versorgungsgebiet.htm
- ↑ https://www.vol.be.ch/vol/de/index/direktion/organisation/kl/publikationen/Mitteilungen.assetref/dam/documents/VOL/KL/de/mitteilungen_result_chlorothalonil.pdf
- ↑ https://www.be.ch/portal/de/index/mediencenter/medienmitteilungen.meldungNeu.html/portal/de/mektiven/mm/2020/02/20200206_0921_chlorothalonil-metabolitenimtrinkwasserkantonpubliziertdiemesswe
- ↑ http://www.wasserversorgung-oenz.ch/view/data/5730/Sparsames%20Umiegen%20mit%20Wasser.pdf