Bitzighofen

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Bitzighofen is a district or a district in the municipality of Sarnen in the canton of Obwalden .

geography

The Bitzighofen residential and commercial area is located on the northern edge of the village of Sarnen and is separated from it by the Sarner Aa . The clearly delimited quarter is surrounded by agricultural land. To the southwest the terrain rises towards Ramersberg . The quarter is bounded to the north by the Juchgraben, the Bitzighoferbach flows through the settlement. The brook burst its banks on June 12, 1997 after a violent thunderstorm in the Ramersberg area, flooding Bitzighofen and causing damage of around 15 million francs. The Wuhrgenossenschaft Ramersbergerbächer then built the brook at a cost of 3.8 million francs.

situation

The quarter consists of a few streets with a closed, low development, which is dominated by the Bitzighofen high-rise built in 1963 .

There used to be a covered wooden bridge to cross the Saarner Aa between Sarnen and Bitzighofen . Today there is a concrete bridge at this point.

economy

There are a few shops in Bitzighofen. A large timber construction company with several halls delimits the quarter towards Brünigstrasse. In the middle of Bitzighofen is since 1972 the production and sales site of the dairy Seiler founded in 1928, the year (as of 2013) of 10 million kilograms of milk (10,000 tons ) total 1,000 tonnes of cheese varieties raclette , fried cheese , Sarnerli ( cream cheese ), Sharp Teufel und Grotto ( grotto cheese ) (since 2012). There is also a warehouse for 23,000 cheese loaves at the Bitzighofen location. The main warehouse for the maturation of the raclette and grotto cheeses has been located on the Panoramastrasse in Giswil between Rudenz and Kleinteil since 2004 . Up to 95,000 cheeses are stored in the former military tunnel for different maturing times.

Holy Cross Chapel

The Heiligkreuz chapel, located a little above Bitzighofen, dates from 1863 and was inaugurated on September 14, 1864. Remigius Spichtig (* 1801), who entered the Neapolitan military service with like-minded people in 1827, is considered the initiator of the chapel. On the journey from Genoa to Naples , he got into a 32-day distress and survived. Spichtig was in the service of King Victor Emmanuel II and later moved to the Palace of the Kingdom of Piedmont . According to tradition, he came into possession of a Holy Cross relic certified by Bishop Josef Castellani in 1852. After he returned to Switzerland in 1880, he presented this relic and three pictures of the "grave linens of Turin" in the Holy Cross chapel.

Attractions

Transport links

The quarter borders on Brünigstrasse, which connects Sarnen with Alpnach via Kägiswil . The post bus connection from Sarnen to Alpnach uses the Bitzighofen stop .

Trivia

When he briefly took up residence in Obwalden at the end of the 1970s, the football emperor Franz Beckenbauer lived in the Bitzighofen skyscraper and subsequently described Sarnen as “a divine area”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bitzighoferbach is tamed , article in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung from November 12, 2007
  2. ↑ Sarner Aa-Brücke, Sarnen Bitzighofen , information page on swiss-timber-bridges.ch, accessed on September 12, 2013
  3. ↑ Seiler Käserei AG on the website of the Swiss Cooperative of Soft and Semi-Hard Cheese Manufacturers, accessed on September 23, 2013
  4. ↑ Seiler Grotto  ( page no longer available , 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. , on the website Lebensmittelpraxis.de, accessed on September 23, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lebensmittelpraxis.de  
  5. ^ Website of the Seiler cheese dairy
  6. ↑ Cheese instead of rockets in the bunker , article by Zentralschweiz on Sunday, September 22, 2013
  7. ↑ Bitzighofer celebrate their little church , article in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung from September 12, 2013
  8. ↑ Jo mei, I bin a Ami , article in Spiegel 37/1977 from September 5, 1977
  9. ^ The efficient hiker Franz Beckenbauer , article in the Jungfrau Zeitung of July 9, 2007

Coordinates: 46 ° 54 '11.9 "  N , 8 ° 14' 47.8"  E ; CH1903:  661 562  /  195006