Epsach

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Epsach
Coat of arms of Epsach
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton BernCanton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district : Zealandw
BFS no. : 0735i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 3272
Coordinates : 583140  /  212 874 coordinates: 47 ° 4 '0'  N , 7 ° 13 '0 "  O ; CH1903:  583140  /  two hundred twelve thousand eight hundred seventy-four
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

Epsach

Location of the municipality
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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

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

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. ↑ 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.
  3. ^ Results of the municipality of Epsach. State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern, October 20, 2019, accessed on August 5, 2020 .