Epsach
Epsach | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Bern (BE) |
Administrative district : | Zealand |
BFS no. : | 0735 |
Postal code : | 3272 |
Coordinates : | 583140 / 212 874 |
Height : | 465 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 436-544 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 3.41 km² |
Residents: | 317 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 93 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | www.epsach.ch |
Epsach |
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Location of the municipality | |
Epsach (in local dialect [ ˈepsə ]) is a village and a political municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the Swiss canton of Bern . In addition to the upper and lower villages, it also includes the settlements in the Klus and the Baar . In addition to the residents' community, there is also a civic community under the same name .
geography
Epsach is located in the Bernese Seeland . The neighboring communities starting from the north in a clockwise direction are Mörigen , Hermigen , Bühl BE , Walperswil and Täuffelen .
history
The traces of settlement in the municipality go back to the Bronze Age . The place name is attested possibly as Ebza in 1244 , certainly as Epzach in 1345 , and probably goes back to a derivation from the Latin personal name Abidius with the Celtic place name suffix -akos / -acum .
politics
The voting shares of the parties on the occasion of the National Council election in 2019 were: SVP 53.9%, SP 9.8%, BDP 9.6%, glp 7.0%, EDU 2.2%, GPS 7.2%, EVP 3.3 %, FDP 2.7%, DM 1.6%.
See also
literature
- Andres Moser: The art monuments of the canton of Bern. Landband 2: The Erlach district, the Nidau district. Part 1. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Wiese, Basel 1998, (Art Monuments of Switzerland, Volume 90). ISBN 3-909164-63-3 . Pp. 420-428.
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Epsach
- Anne-Marie Dubler : Epsach. 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
- ↑ a b Andres Kristol: Epsach BE (Nidau) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 328.
- ^ Results of the municipality of Epsach. State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern, October 20, 2019, accessed on August 5, 2020 .