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Lazy Lake
Faulensee coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton BernCanton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district : Frutigen-Niedersimmentalw
Residential municipality : Spiezi2
Postal code : 3705
Coordinates : 620 184  /  169 376 coordinates: 46 ° 40 '31 "  N , 7 ° 42' 9"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and twenty thousand one hundred eighty-four  /  one hundred and sixty-nine thousand three hundred and seventy-six
Height : 560  m above sea level M.
Residents: 1320 (2016)
Website: www.faulensee.ch
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Faulensee on Lake Thun

Faulensee is a village on Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland . It belongs to the political municipality of Spiez in the canton of Bern .

history

Aerial view of Faulensee with Stockhorn (1952)

First mentioned around 660, Faulensee was an imperial fiefdom in the High Middle Ages , including the barons of Thun-Unspunnen , Oberhofen, Strättligen , Wädenswil and Eschenbach , then the dukes of Zähringen and the counts of Kyburg , until the fiefdom of Habsburg Austria was withdrawn. Like the entire Thun region, Faulensee has been Bernese since the late 14th century .

Until the 19th century Faulensee owned an early medieval Kolumbank chapel (first mentioned in 1330), which was dependent on Spiez and was built over Bronze Age graves. The ruins of the chapel were demolished in the 1890s. The foundations of the Kolumbank Chapel were uncovered by the architect and sculptor Erwin Friedrich Baumann during excavations on the occasion of the overall planning of a new church 1960–1961. The foundations of a medieval castle (according to ceramic finds dating from the 11th to 13th centuries) were found over a burial ground with 41 graves. Unfortunately, the foundations of the Kolumbank Chapel were destroyed in 1961 when today's church was built.

Model of the Kolumbank Chapel in the garden of Ernst Turtschi in Faulensee, built by Ernst Amstutz (1910–1975) to a scale of 1:10

Former branches of business were arable, fruit and vine growing, fishing and shipping. The connection to the Thunerseestrasse in the 1830s, the scheduled shipping (station since 1876) and the Spiez – Interlaken -Bahn (1893) opened up tourism to the climatically preferred location .

Population numbers

  • 1764: 0317 inhabitants
  • 1993: 0904 inhabitants
  • 2005: 1250 inhabitants
  • 2012: 1323 inhabitants
  • 2013: 1211 inhabitants
  • 2016: 1320 inhabitants

Place name

Faulensee is named after a former lake that was called the 'fulenden [d. H. rotting, stinking "lake".

economy

Today, additional hotels, excursion (catering) and transit traffic are equally important. There is also small business; the agriculture is declining. The wine is experiencing a renaissance in recent years.

Artillery plant

The artillery plant consisted of four gun emplacements camouflaged as agricultural buildings with cannons of 10.5 cm. The reason for this construction method was that on the left side of Lake Thun there are no rocky areas in which the bunkers could have been built in the mountain. The battery was combined on a front width of 200 m and was connected to one another underground.

Web links

Commons : Faulensee  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welcome to Spiez »Faulensee. In: www.spiez.ch. Retrieved January 10, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Cf. Place Name Book of the Canton of Bern , Vol. I, pp. 121 and 174f.
  3. ↑ Spiez vineyards