Heimenhausen

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Heimenhausen
Heimenhausen coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton BernCanton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district : Oberaargauw
BFS no. : 0977i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 3372 Wanzwil
3373 Heimenhausen
3373 Röthenbach near Herzogenbuchsee
Coordinates : 619 802  /  228787 coordinates: 47 ° 12 '35 "  N , 7 ° 42' 0"  O ; CH1903:  619 802  /  228787
Height : 455  m above sea level M.
Height range : 430–497 m above sea level M.
Area : 5.84  km²
Residents: 1143 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 196 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.heimenhausen.ch
Half-timbered house in Röthenbach near Herzogenbuchsee

Half-timbered house in Röthenbach near Herzogenbuchsee
Location of the municipality
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Heimenhausen is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

On January 1, 2009, the merger of Heimenhausen with Röthenbach near Herzogenbuchsee and Wanzwil to form the new community of Heimenhausen became legally binding.

geography

Heimenhausen is 452  m above sea level. M. , 2.5 km north of Herzogenbuchsee and 7 km west of the city of Langenthal (as the crow flies). The former street line village extends on the gravel terrace west of the lower Önztal, and south of the Aareniederung , in Oberaargau .

The area of ​​the 3.2 km² municipal area covers a section of the northern Bernese Mittelland . The area is subdivided by the parallel running streams of the Önz and the Seebach (outflow of the Inkwilersee ). While the former has sunk a 15 to 20 m deep and 200 m wide valley into the gravel plain over time, the latter flows on the plateau and only gradually deepens into the gravel terrace in the extreme north. East of the Önztal lies only a small part of the municipality with the Ischlag and the plateau near Schwerzi. To the north and northwest, the municipality extends into the extensive forests of Griengrubenwald , Tannhubel and Bergwald . The mountain forest covers a ground moraine wall of the Ice Age Rhone glacier and reaches 487  m above sea level. M. the highest elevation of Heimenhausen. In 1997, 10% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 40% by forests and woodlands and 50% by agriculture.

Heimenhausen includes the hamlet of Schwerzi ( 443  m above sea level ) on the plateau east of the Önztal as well as the villages of Wanzwil ( 455  m above sea level ) and Röthenbach near Herzogenbuchsee ( 462  m above sea level ) west of the Önztal.

Since the merger , neighboring communities of Heimenhausen have been Berken , Graben , Herzogenbuchsee , Niederönz , Inkwil , Wangenried and Walliswil bei Wangen .

population

With 1143 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) Heimenhausen is one of the small communities in the canton of Bern. 98.5% of the residents speak German, 0.7% speak Serbo-Croatian and 0.2% speak French (as of 2000). The population of Heimenhausen was 388 in 1850 and 416 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century the population decreased by more than 30% to 287 people by 1980 due to strong emigration. Since then, the population has increased significantly again.

Water supply

The water supply is the responsibility of the municipal association of water supply on the lower Oenz (WVOe). Like many other water suppliers, the WVOe has to contend with chlorothalonil metabolites . Water samples from 2019 showed that the applicable maximum values ​​were exceeded in four of the WVOe's drinking water catchments. As a result of the heat and drought in 2019 , customers were asked in July of the same year to limit their water consumption .

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Heimenhausen was a village dominated by agriculture . Even today, have agriculture and animal husbandry and forestry an important role in the employment structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Langenthal - Herzogenbuchsee region.

traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfare on a connecting road from Herzogenbuchsee to Berken . The nearest connection to the A1 motorway (Bern-Zurich) is around 6 km from the town center. Heimenhausen is connected to the public transport network by a bus line that runs from Herzogenbuchsee via Wangen an der Aare to Farnern .

history

Old coat of arms of Heimenhausen

The municipality of Heimenhausen was settled very early. A shallow grave from the Latène period and various traces of settlements and roads from the Roman period were found. The place was first mentioned in a document in 1328 under the name Heimenhusen . Later the names Heimhusen (1347) and Heymenshusen (1385) appeared. The place name is derived from the Old High German personal name Heimo (a short form of Heimwalt ) and thus means for the houses of Heimo .

Since the Middle Ages Heimenhausen has been under the rule of the Kyrgyz family Herzogenbuchsee and shared their fate. In 1406 the village came under the rule of Bern and was assigned to the Landvogtei Wangen and in it the court place Herzogenbuchsee. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Heimenhausen belonged to the district of Wangen during the Helvetic Republic and from 1803 to the Oberamt Wangen, which was given the status of an official district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831. At the community level, there is now close cooperation with the neighboring villages of Röthenbach near Herzogenbuchsee and Wanzwil, and the merger with these communities was completed on January 1, 2009.

Attractions

In the old town center some characteristic farmhouses in the Bernese country style from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved. The Heidenstöckli, which dates back to the 16th century, is one of the oldest wooden storehouses in Oberaargau. Heimenhausen does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Herzogenbuchsee .

Web links

Commons : Heimenhausen  - collection of images, 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. ↑ http://www.wasserversorgung-oenz.ch/Versorgungsgebiet.htm
  3. ↑ https://www.vol.be.ch/vol/de/index/direktion/organisation/kl/publikationen/Mitteilungen.assetref/dam/documents/VOL/KL/de/mitteilungen_result_chlorothalonil.pdf
  4. ↑ https://www.be.ch/portal/de/index/mediencenter/medienmitteilungen.meldungNeu.html/portal/de/mektiven/mm/2020/02/20200206_0921_chlorothalonil-metabolitenimtrinkwasserkantonpubliziertdiemesswe
  5. ↑ http://www.wasserversorgung-oenz.ch/view/data/5730/Sparsames%20Umiegen%20mit%20Wasser.pdf