Guttannen

Guttannen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Interlaken-Oberhasli
BFS no. :	0782
Postal code :	3864
Coordinates :	664 936  /  167 547 coordinates: 46 ° 39 '22 "  N , 8 ° 17' 13"  O ; CH1903:  664 936  /  one hundred and sixty-seven thousand five hundred and forty-seven
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
Gelmersee
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
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 .

Guttannen School

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Guttannen

Impressions from the village

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  church

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  Upper village part

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  Guttannen-Handeck tunnel railway

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  Farmhouse

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  Farmhouses

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  Handeck alpine dairy

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  Hotel Handeck

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.

Grimselsee

View from the top of the pass to Grimselsee, Grimselhospiz and Räterichsbodensee

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

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

• 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

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. ^ History
3. ↑ situation. Oberingenieurkreis I, accessed on September 4, 2015 .