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Diesse coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton BernCanton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district : Bernese Juraw
Residential municipality : Plateau de Diessei2
Postal code : 2517
former BFS no. : 0721
Coordinates : 575 672  /  218304 coordinates: 47 ° 6 '55 "  N , 7 ° 7' 5"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred and seventy-five thousand six hundred and seventy-two  /  218304
Height : 838  m above sea level M.
Area : 9.44  km²
Residents: 438 (December 31, 2013)
Population density : 46 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.diesse.ch
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2014

Until December 31, 2013, Diesse was a political municipality in the Bernese Jura administrative district of the canton of Bern in Switzerland . The former German names Dess , Tess or Tesse are no longer used today. On January 1, 2014 Diesse merged with the two other former municipalities of Lamboing and Prêles to form the new municipality of Plateau de Diesse .

Plateau de Diesse and Chasseral

geography

View from Diesse

Diesse is 838  m above sea level. M. , ten kilometers west of Biel (straight line). The village extends on the northern edge of the Montagne de Diesse (German Tessenberg ) plateau above Lake Biel , in the southern Jura at the foot of Mont Sujet .

Aerial photo (1949)

The area of ​​the 9.4 km² former municipal area comprises a section of the plateau of the Montagne de Diesse, which is drained from the Douanne (German Twannbach ) to Lake Biel. In the south the area extends to the ridge of Prêles. To the north, the community extends to the anticline of Mont Sujet, a ridge of the Jura that is in front of the Chasseral to the south. At 1382  m above sea level M. the highest point of Diesse is reached on the Mont Sujet. Here there are extensive Jura high pastures with the typical mighty spruce trees , which either stand individually or in groups. In 1997, 3% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 49% for forests and woodlands and 48% for agriculture.

The hamlet of La Pierre to the east of the village and some individual farms belong to Diesse . Neighboring communities of Diesse were Prêles , Lamboing and Nods until December 31, 2013 .

population

With 438 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2013) Diesse was one of the smaller communities in the Bernese Jura . 88.3% of the residents are French-speaking, 9.6% German-speaking and 1.2% Spanish-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Diesse was 408 in 1850, and 387 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, a significant decrease to 277 people was registered by 1970. Since then, larger growth rates have been recorded again.

politics

The voting shares of the parties on the occasion of the National Council elections in 2011 were: GPS 24.9%, SVP 21.7%, SP 17.6%, FDP 11.4%, Les Rauraques 5.7%, glp 5.2%, BDP 5, 0%, pirates 1.6%, CVP 1.4%, AL 1.2%, SLB 1.0%, EDU 0.5%, EVP 0.3%.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, this was mainly dominated by agriculture . Since around 1980 the village has gradually developed into a residential community. Numerous very beautiful single-family houses were built in the Mamelon-Vert quarter. It is still not known how the name “Mamelon Vert” (green nipple) came about. Many workers are commuters and work in Biel or in the La Neuveville region .

traffic

The village is located off the major thoroughfares on the cantonal road from Frinvillier to Nods . Diesse is connected to La Neuveville by a post bus course, which also serves the other communities of the Montagne de Diesse.

history

Diesse-Chasseral from Prêles by Leo Wehrli (1945)

Diesse was first mentioned in writing in 1178 under its current name. In 1188 it was mentioned as Mont de Tesson , 1196 Thesson , from 1228 on finally Diesse or in German Tessen . The small landscape, which was already settled in Roman times, passed first to Burgundy, then to the Count of Neuchâtel, who handed it over to the Duchy of Basel in 1112 . From this the administration of Diesse was transferred in 1185 to the Abbey of St. Johann. Some of the sovereign rights of the Counts of Neuchâtel over Diesse were transferred to the Count of Nidau ​​in 1216, and in 1375 the city of Bern became their successor. At the time of the Reformation, Bern also received the right of collature to the parish of Diesse, which it exercised together with its other legal claims together with the bishops of Basel until 1797. In the parish church are the graves of a number of clergymen from the Lecomte dynasty, who descended from the reformer Jean Lecomte (1500–1572) and who provided the church of Bern with twenty pastors until 1800. Several of them also worked in Diesse. In 1577, 360 people fell victim to the plague in Diesse in the course of 3 months. In the 17th century, witch trials were strikingly frequent in Diesse, and no fewer than 60 witches were burned between 1611 and 1617.

Under the rule of Bern, Diesse was the main town of the Meiertum (mairie) Montagne de Diesse until the end of 1797. From 1798 to 1815 Diesse belonged to France and was initially part of the Mont-Terrible department , which was connected to the Haut-Rhin department in 1800 . As a result of the decision of the Congress of Vienna , the place came to the canton of Bern to the district of Erlach in 1815 and to the new district of La Neuveville in 1846 .

Until December 31, 2013, Diesse was an independent municipality .

Attractions

The reformed parish church of Saint-Michel, which appears in the documents as early as 1185, was extensively restored from 1955 to 1956. The nave is from the Romanesque period, the choir is Gothic . The neighboring parishes of Lamboing and Prêles also belong to the parish of Diesse . Some characteristic old farmhouses have been preserved in the town center.

Web links

Commons : Diesse  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.wahlarchiv.sites.be.ch/wahlen2011/target/NAWAInternetAction.do@method=read&sprache=d&typ=21&gem=721.html accessed on March 15, 2012