Diemerswil

Diemerswil
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Bern-Mittelland
BFS no. :	0536
Postal code :	3053
Coordinates :	599 196  /  207600 coordinates: 47 ° 1 '10 "  N , 7 ° 25' 41"  O ; CH1903:  599,196  /  207600
Height :	600  m above sea level M.
Height range :	577–673 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.86  km²
Residents:	206 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	72 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.diemerswil.ch
The hamlet of Ufem Moos in the Diemerswil community
Location of the municipality

Diemerswil is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

geography

Diemerswil is 600  m above sea level. M. , 8 km north of the canton capital Bern (linear distance). The small farming village extends on a gently sloping slope on the eastern roof of the Frienisberg plateau, south of the Moosseetal, in the Swiss plateau .

The area of ​​the 2.8 km² municipal area covers a section of the central Bernese plateau. The community soil extends from the outskirts of Münchenbuchsee westward over the slope of Diemerswil with the area of ​​the Mettlenfeld to the heights of the Frienisberg near Cholholz and the Chüewald . At 670  m above sea level M. the highest elevation of Diemerswil is reached above the Cholholz. The northern boundary forms a belonging to the catchment area of the moss Lake Valley Stream, which the Mettlenstrasse field from the forest back bears Ried separates. In 1997, 5% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 20% for forests and woodlands and 75% for agriculture.

Diemerswil consists of the closely spaced groups of houses Dörfli , Wydacker , Riedmatt , Moos and the outlying settlements of Mettlen ( 608  m above sea level ) and Cholholz ( 660  m above sea level ). Neighboring communities of Diemerswil are Münchenbuchsee , Kirchlindach and Schüpfen .

population

With 206 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Diemerswil is one of the small communities in the canton of Bern. 97.6% of the residents are German-speaking, 1.8% French-speaking and 0.6% speak Portuguese (as of 2000). The population of Diemerswil was 245 inhabitants in 1850 and 250 inhabitants in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population decreased by over 40% to 145 people by 1980 due to strong emigration. Since then, a slight increase in population has been recorded.

politics

The voting shares of the parties on the occasion of the National Council elections in 2019 were: SVP 39.0%, FDP 13.5%, GPS 12.5%, glp 12.4%, BDP 9.1%, SP 7.7%.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Diemerswil was a village dominated by agriculture . Even today, arable farming , fruit growing and dairy farming have an important place in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including in a computer science company. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Bern agglomeration .

traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfares on a connecting road from Münchenbuchsee to Meikirch . The closest connection to the A6 motorway (Bern-Biel) is around 4 km from the town center. Diemerswil has no connection to the public transport network; There are bus stops and a train station in nearby Münchenbuchsee.

history

Campagne Diemerswil, Péristyle (around 1900)

The discovery of a barrow from the Hallstatt period with a chariot burial in the fire forest indicates an early settlement of the municipality. The place was first mentioned in a document in 1257 under the name Diemarswile . The names Ditmarswile (1275), Dyemerswil (1299) and Diemerswile (1302) appeared later . The place name goes back to the Old High German personal name Dietmar and therefore means Dietmar's homestead .

Since the Middle Ages, Diemerswil has been under the lordship of the Counts of Kyburg . In the 13th century the manorial power came to the Johanniterkommende Münchenbuchsee . Since 1406, sovereignty over the area was incumbent on the city ​​of Bern . After the Commandery had been secularized in 1528, Diemerswil was assigned to the Landvogtei Münchenbuchsee in the Zollikofen Regional 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. At the community level, there is now a close cooperation with the neighboring Münchenbuchsee.

The Campagne Diemerswil (so-called castle), originally from the 18th century, was destroyed in 1969.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “ Divided by red, with a continuous silver cross, and by silver with a red, gold-covered rose on a green branch. »
	Justification of the coat of arms: The white cross in the red field is the coat of arms of the Order of St. John , which was the landlord of Diemerswil before 1528. The rose is taken from the coat of arms of the von Fellenberg family , who owned the Campagne Diemerswil. The coat of arms was created in 1932.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Diemerswil

In the hamlets there are some characteristic farmhouses in the Bernese country style from the 18th and 19th centuries. Diemerswil does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Münchenbuchsee.

literature

• Hans Sidler: Diemerswil. Review , Diemerswil 1977 (typescript).
• Book of arms of the canton of Bern. The Bernese state coat of arms and the coats of arms of the administrative districts and municipalities , published on behalf of the Bernese government council. by the management of the municipalities, arr. from the Bern State Archives with the assistance of Hans Jenni. Armorial du canton de Berne. Les armoiries de l'Etat de Berne, des districts et des communes , publié par la Direction des affaires communales sur mandat du Conseil-exécutif du canton de Berne, élaboré par les Archives de l'Etat de Berne avec la collaboration de Hans Jenni, Bern 1981.

Web links

Commons : Diemerswil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Diemerswil community
• Anne-Marie Dubler : Diemerswil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent resident population from STAT-TAB of the BfS , municipalities see also regional portraits 2020 on bfs.admin.ch, accessed on May 29, 2020
2. ↑ Elections 2019: Results of the Diemerswil community. Canton of Bern, accessed on November 28, 2019.
3. ↑ Wappenbuch 1981, p. 100.
4. ↑ Wappenbuch 1981, p. 100, Diemerswil municipal archive, GA 94.