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BE is the abbreviation for the canton of Bern in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries in the name Grabenf .
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Coat of arms from Graben
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton BernCanton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district : Oberaargauw
BFS no. : 0976i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 3376
Coordinates : 621 398  /  229688 coordinates: 47 ° 13 '4 "  N , 7 ° 43' 16"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred twenty-one thousand three hundred and ninety-eight  /  229688
Height : 455  m above sea level M.
Height range : 416–479 m above sea level M.
Area : 3.16  km²
Residents: 332 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 105 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.graben.ch
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Graben is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

geography

Graben is 455  m above sea level. M. , 4 km north of Herzogenbuchsee and 5 km west of the city of Langenthal and around 13 km from Solothurn (linear distance). The scattered settlement , which has no actual village center, extends on the gravel terrace east of the Önz , just before its confluence with the Aare , in Oberaargau .

The area of ​​the 3.2 km² municipal area covers a section of the northern Bernese Mittelland . The northern border is formed by the Aare, which flows here in a valley that is about 35 m deep into the surrounding Ice Age gravel terraces. The main part of the municipal ban is taken up by this high terrace (on average at 455  m above sea level ), which is divided in two by the 200 m wide and 20 to 30 m sunk valley of the Önz. To the south, the municipality extends into the extensive forests of Tannwald and Gratwald ( 477  m above sea level ); in the east is on the edge of a ground moraine wall of the Ice Age Rhone glacier with 480  m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Graben. In 1997, 6% of the municipal area was settled, 35% forest and woodland, 55% agriculture and a little less than 4% was unproductive land.

Graben consists of the hamlets of Schwendi , Burech , Baumgarten , Chleiholz and Schörlishüseren (all at around 450  m above sea level east of the Önztal) and Hubel ( 447  m above sea level west of the Önztal) and a few individual farms. Neighboring communities of Graben are Aarwangen , Thunstetten , Herzogenbuchsee , Heimenhausen , Berken and Bannwil .

population

With 332 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Graben is one of the small communities in the canton of Bern. 98.7% of the residents speak German, 1.0% speak French and 0.3% speak English (as of 2000). The population of Graben was 325 inhabitants in 1850 and 303 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population decreased to 262 people by 1990. Since then, a slight increase in population has been recorded.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Graben was a village dominated by agriculture . Even today, agriculture and dairy farming as well as forestry have an important place in the income structure of the population. Other important jobs are in local small businesses and in the service sector. Some of the workers are commuters who work mainly in the Langenthal - Herzogenbuchsee region and in Wangen an der Aare .

traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfare on a connecting road from Herzogenbuchsee to Bannwil . The nearest connection to the A1 motorway (Bern-Zurich) is around 6 km from the town center. Graben has no connection to the public transport network.

history

Aerial photo of Graben, Berken and Bannwil from 3000 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1923)

The community area of ​​Graben was settled very early, which could be proven by flint finds at the Hubel and the research of burial mounds from the Hallstatt period in the Riedstiglenwald. The Stadönz court settlement near the confluence of the Önz into the Aare was first mentioned in 1220 under the name Stadonce . Graben appears for the first time in the documents in 1430.

Since the Middle Ages, Graben has been subordinate to the Lords of Önz, who, as vassals of the Kyburgs, held a small rule. In 1385, the village was pledged to the Barons of Grünenberg ( Melchnau ). Graben was sold in 1432 as part of the Aarwangen rule by Wilhelm von Grünenberg to the city of Bern and assigned to the Aarwangen bailiff. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village belonged to the district of Wangen during the Helvetic period and from 1803 to the Oberamt Wangen, which received the status of an official district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831.

Nuclear power plant

Since 1972 trench was as a location for a nuclear power plant of BKW provided. However, the implementation of the project failed, among other things, due to the strong opposition of the population from the region. On April 18, 1975, the Nonviolent Action Graben (GAG) was founded. One of the highlights of the anti-nuclear movement was the “Graben Festival” from August 26th to 28th, 1977: 6000 to 9000 people took part. However, the project was not finally abandoned until the early 1990s (the property, however, was still owned by BKW at that time).

Instead of building a new power plant, Kernkraftwerk-Beteiligungsgesellschaft AG (KBG) established a cooperation with the French EdF via a 15% stake in the Fessenheim nuclear power plant : a consortium of three Swiss companies - with 5% each Energy companies Alpiq , Axpo and BKW Energie .

Local government

Since November 2008, the administrative administration of the municipality of Graben has been run by the municipality of Bannwil .

Attractions

Some characteristic farmhouses of the Bernese country style from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved in the hamlets. Graben does not have its own house of worship, it belongs to the parish of Herzogenbuchsee .

Web links

Commons : Dig BE  - collection of pictures, 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. ↑ Ruedi Bärtschi: A nuclear power plant that was not built. (PDF; 10.9 MB) Jahrbuch des Oberaargaus, 2008, pp. 223–257 , accessed on May 5, 2016 .
  3. ^ Article from 1992 in the then Solothurner Nachrichten
  4. ↑ June 3, 2016, Hans Galli, derbund.ch: Dispute over the shutdown of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant (June 3, 2016)