Grafenried BE

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Grafenried
Grafenried coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton BernCanton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district : Bern-Mittellandw
Residential municipality : Fraubrunneni2
Postal code : 3308
former BFS no. : 0539
UN / LOCODE : CH GFR
Coordinates : 605 695  /  214242 coordinates: 47 ° 4 '45 "  N , 7 ° 30' 49"  O ; CH1903:  605 695  /  214242
Height : 520  m above sea level M.
Area : 4.7  km²
Residents: 947 (December 31, 2007)
Population density : 201 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.grafenried.ch
Grafenried

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2014

Grafenried was a political municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district of the canton of Bern in Switzerland until December 31, 2013 . On January 1, 2014 Grafenried merged with the municipalities of Büren zum Hof , Etzelkofen , Limpach , Mülchi , Schalunen and Zauggenried to form the municipality of Fraubrunnen .

geography

Grafenried lies at 520  m above sea level. M. , nine kilometers west-north-west of Burgdorf and 15 kilometers north-north-east of the canton capital Bern (as the crow flies). The scattered village extends in a valley in the eastern part of the Rapperswil plateau in the Swiss Plateau .

The area of ​​the 4.7 km² former municipal area covers a section of the central Bernese plateau. The main part of the area is taken up by the wide Grafenried basin, which is drained to the northeast to the Urtenen and is surrounded on the other three sides by extensive forests. To the north, the municipality extends into the forest of the Eichsberg ( 547  m above sea level ), to the west over a gently rising slope of the Rapperswil plateau to the height of the Buech-Ischlag , on which at 592  m above sea level. M. the highest point of Grafenried is reached. In the south and southeast parts of the Hambüelwald ( 546  m above sea level ) and the Loonwald ( 544  m above sea level ) belong to the municipal ban . In 1997, 10% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 35% for forests and woodlands and 55% for agriculture.

Grafenried includes the residential quarter Nüechteren ( 550  m above sea level ) on the eastern slope of the Rapperswil plateau, the hamlets Buechhof ( 542  m above sea level ) and Stöckgass ( 531  m above sea level ) in the Mulde southwest of the village, the quarter Bachtelen slightly increased west of the village and some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Grafenried were until December 31, 2013 Fraubrunnen , Zauggenried , Jegenstorf , Iffwil and Etzelkofen .

population

With 947 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2007) Grafenried was one of the smaller communities in the canton of Bern. 95.9% of the residents speak German, 1.7% speak French and 0.3% speak Italian (as of 2000). The population of Grafenried was 640 in 1850, compared to 556 in 1900. During the 20th century the population slowly increased. Since 1980 (648 inhabitants) a significant increase in population has been recorded.

politics

The voting shares of the parties in the 2011 National Council elections were: BDP 25.0%, SVP 20.2%, SP 15.4%, GPS 8.4%, EPP 7.8%, glp 6.8%, FDP 6.0 %, EDU 4.5%, CVP 2.1%.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Grafenried was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today, arable farming , fruit growing , dairy farming and forestry have an important place in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. In Grafenried today there are companies in the electrical industry, the building trade, IT, wood processing, horticulture and mechanical workshops. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Bern agglomeration .

traffic

Grafenried is very well developed in terms of traffic. The village is on the old main road from Bern to Solothurn . The nearest connection to the A1 motorway (Bern-Zurich) is around 6 km from the town center. On April 10, 1916, the Zollikofen-Solothurn section, which is now operated by the local transport company Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn , was put into operation with a train station in Grafenried. The trains run to Bern and Solothurn every half hour.

history

Aerial photo (1958)
Photo of Grafenried Church, 1914–1918
Grafenried Church
Rectory

Excavations of tumuli from the Hallstatt period in the Eichsbergwald and presumably the remains of a Roman estate on the Wittenbergfeld testify to the early settlement of the Grafenried area. The first written mention of the place took place in 1258 under the name Gravenriet ; from 1262 the name Riede and from 1272 Gravinriet is handed down. The place name goes back to the Old High German word riod (clearing). The qualifier Grafen- was introduced to differentiate between neighboring places of the same name (Zauggenried, Kernenried). It relates to the property of the Counts of Thierstein .

Grafenried had been in the possession of the Counts of Thierstein since the Middle Ages , but in the second half of the 13th century it came under the ownership of the Fraubrunnen Monastery and thus under the Kyburger Kastvogtei . From 1406 Grafenried was under Bernese sovereignty and in 1528, after the secularization of the Fraubrunnen Abbey, it was assigned to the Landvogtei Fraubrunnen in the Zollikofen district court . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798) Grafenried belonged to the district of Zollikofen during the Helvetic Republic and from 1803 to the Oberamt Fraubrunnen, which received the status of an official district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831.

In 1850, seven houses burned down in a village fire in Oberdorf (Bernstrasse 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17 and Dorfstrasse 1). In 1916, four farmhouses burned down in a village fire in the Hinterdorf (Hinterdorf 1, 2, 4 and 6).

Attractions

The Reformed parish church stands on a hill north of the village, close to the border with Fraubrunnen. It essentially goes back to a building from the 8th century, has belonged to the Fraubrunnen monastery since 1258 and has been the parish church of Fraubrunnen and Grafenried since 1535 (demolition of the monastery church). The church was given its present form when it was rebuilt in 1747. It houses baroque choir stalls and a baptismal font from the same era. Together with the rectory (1737) and today's parish hall, a pfrundhaus from 1813-14 that was rebuilt in 1978, it forms a remarkable group of buildings.

The center of Grafenried is one of the sites of national importance worthy of protection and has numerous characteristic farmhouses in the Bernese country style from the 17th to 19th centuries.

Web links

Commons : Grafenried  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Fritz König, Pauls Zryd; Origin of real estate in the municipality of Grafenried in the Bernese district of Fraubrunnen and its changes over the past 400 years Reprint from the "Swiss Journal for Surveying and Cultural Technology" of the Swiss Geometer Association, 1939 Issue No. 6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.wahlarchiv.sites.be.ch/wahlen2011/target/NAWAInternetAction.do@method=read&sprache=d&typ=21&gem=539.html accessed on July 11, 2012
  2. ↑ Construction inventory of the municipality of Grafenried 2001, description of the Oberdorf district
  3. ↑ Construction inventory of the municipality of Grafenried 2001, description of the Hinterdorf district