Guttannen
Guttannen | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Bern (BE) |
Administrative district : | Interlaken-Oberhasli |
BFS no. : | 0782 |
Postal code : | 3864 |
Coordinates : | 664 936 / 167 547 |
Height : | 1057 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 758–4271 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 200.85 km² |
Residents: | 263 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 1 inhabitant per km² |
Website: | www.guttannen.ch |
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Location of the municipality | |
Guttannen is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .
history
Guttannen is a field name that became a place name. It is a short form of ze den guoten tannen (by the good firs). It was first mentioned in writing as Guotontannon in 1377 . In 1723 and 1803 two fires destroyed almost the entire village. Only a few houses survived this catastrophe. An avalanche on March 3, 1830 killed 5 men from the village, including Arnold Abbühl, who was there on the first ascent of the Finsteraarhorn on August 16, 1812.
On August 22, 2005 , a debris flow spilled the cantonal road and blocked the Aare , which then looked for a new route through the village and caused great damage in the Schattseite district.
geography
Guttannen is in the Bernese Oberland near the Grimsel Pass . The neighboring communities starting from the north in a clockwise direction are Innertkirchen , Obergoms , Goms , Fieschertal and Grindelwald .
With an area of 200.77 square kilometers, Guttannen is a huge mountain community by Swiss standards (eighth largest in Switzerland). The municipality is larger than the entire canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden . 90% of the area is barren land.
The Aare rises from the Guttannen glaciers . The water is used intensively to generate electricity, there are four lakes: the Oberaarsee , the Grimselsee , the Räterichsbodensee and the Gelmersee .
The Schreckhorn , Lauteraarhorn , Finsteraarhorn and Ritzlihorn are on the western border of the municipality .
The Finsteraar Glacier , the Lauteraar Glacier , the Unteraar Glacier , the Oberaar Glacier , the Grueben Glacier and the Bächli Glacier also belong to the community .
Natural hazards
Guttannen is threatened by various natural hazards. The village is threatened by avalanches in winter and debris flow activity has increased significantly for several years .
Avalanches
In the avalanche winter of 1999 , Guttannen was cut off from the environment for weeks because the road was closed due to the acute danger of avalanches .
Debris flows
For the debris flow of August 22, 2005 see above .
From 2009 to 2011, several large debris flow events in the Spreitgraben mobilized a considerable load of bed load and transported it into the Aare.
politics
The community president is Hans Abplanalp-Imbaumgarten (as of 2016). Guttannen is a community of residents without a civic community . There is also an Evangelical Reformed parish . There are two farming communities in Guttannen (Boden & Guttannen).
population
Population development | ||||||||||||
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year | 1764 | 1850 | 1880 | 1900 | 1930 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 |
Residents | 288 | 503 | 463 | 345 | 391 | 557 | 430 | 394 | 384 | 374 | 328 | 310 |
school
At the Guttannen School, students in grades 1–6 Class (comprehensive school) taught around 10 children. There was a day school offer between August 2007 and June 2012. In 1971 the school in Boden, a hamlet 3 km below Guttannen, was closed; the schoolhouse built in 1956 is now used as a kindergarten.
In cooperation with the Bern University of Education , the Guttannen School was one of the first primary schools in Switzerland to carry out a 1: 1 computing project with netbooks and later tablets for several years from 2010 .
Attractions
Impressions from the village
Others
The missionary Oskar Rose in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play Die Physiker , who is on his way to a mission station on the Marianas in the Pacific, was previously a pastor in Guttannen.
Personalities
- Eduard Langhans (1832–1891), Protestant clergyman and university professor
literature
- Daniel Wolf, Jost von Allmen: Ernst E. Anderegg . Selected buildings in the Interlaken-Oberhasli region. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 887/888, series 89). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-85782-887-4 .
Web links
- Official website of the community of Guttannen
- Anne-Marie Dubler : Guttannen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Spreitgraben. Oberingenieurkreis I, accessed on September 4, 2015 .
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
- ^ History
- ↑ situation. Oberingenieurkreis I, accessed on September 4, 2015 .