Koeniz

Koeniz
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Bern-Mittelland
BFS no. :	0355
Postal code :	3084 Wabern 3095 Spiegel b. Bern 3097 Liebefeld 3098 Köniz 3098 Schliern b. Köniz 3144 Gasel 3145 Niederscherli 3145 Oberscherli 3147 Mittelhäusern 3172 Niederwangen b. Bern 3173 Oberwangen b. Bern 3174 Thörishaus
UN / LOCODE :	CH KNZ (Köniz), CH LFL (Liebefeld), CH WBR (Wabern), CH NWA (Niederwangen), CH CHT (Thörishaus)
Coordinates :	598 221  /  197101 coordinates: 46 ° 55 '30 "  N , 7 ° 24' 55"  O ; CH1903:  598,221  /  197101
Height :	572  m above sea level M.
Height range :	502–938 m above sea level M.
Area :	51.01  km²
Residents:	41,784 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	Error in expression: unrecognized punctuation mark "'" inh. Per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	16.4% (2,014)
Mayor :	Annemarie Berlinger-Staub ( SP )
Website:	www.koeniz.ch
The «castle» in the center of Köniz
Location of the municipality

Köniz ( Bern German Chünitz [ χʏnɪt͡s ]) is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

Köniz is located southwest of the city of Bern and with 42,495 inhabitants (December 31, 2018), including 8,065 foreigners, is the fourth largest municipality in the canton of Bern and the thirteenth largest in all of Switzerland. The municipality has an area of ​​51 km². The municipality is considered to be the largest agglomeration municipality in Switzerland. Despite the high number of inhabitants, the community still has a village-like character, as the inhabitants are spread across many individual villages.

history

Aerial photograph by Walter Mittelholzer (1922)

The current municipality is Altsiedelland ; There are various Bronze Age and Iron Age sites, Roman manors ( villae rusticae ) and early medieval burial grounds .

Köniz was first mentioned in 1011 as In villa Chunicis [court of Cuno or Cunizo]. Today's Reformed parish church (formerly Sankt Peter and Paul ) dates back to around 1100 in its oldest upright parts. Previous buildings are to be assumed, archaeological excavations are missing so far.

The forecast according to the church on a foundation of the Burgundian king Rudolf II. And his wife Bertha to go back [date of the marriage] 922-937 [death of Rudolf]. The parish included not only today's municipality, but also the area of ​​the future city of Bern, around 5 km away . In 1191 it became the parish church of the newly founded town until it was raised to a separate parish in 1276.

Since sources of unused time, probably, was in the mid-12th century. At the church one pin of the Augustinian Canons , which in 1226 by King Henry VII. , The son and deputy of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. , The German Order was handed over. The order established a commander in the parish church , which belonged to the Swabian-Alsace-Burgundy Ballei , as well as a branch in Bern. One of the friars served as pastor. With the establishment of the parish of Bern, the local branch was raised to an independent commander, the head of which was the respective Bernese city ​​pastor .

The Kommende Köniz was secularized in 1528 on the occasion of the Bernese Reformation , but returned to the order in 1552 under pressure from the Catholic cantons . In 1729 the order sold the Kommende to Bern. A bailiwick was established, which existed until the fall of Old Bern in 1798. The political municipality of Köniz in its current form was created in 1846 and corresponds to the area of ​​the former parish .

Love Field Park (2009)

In 1920 the residents' community assembly was replaced by a community parliament, the large municipal council . At the beginning this comprised 30 seats, since 1934 there have been 40. A full-time municipal council was also introduced in 1934 and the number of seats in the municipal council (government) was reduced from 13 to 11. The municipal council, which had already been reduced to 7 seats, was reduced in 2010 to today's 5 full-time members.

In 2012, Köniz was awarded the Wakker Prize of the Swiss Homeland Security (SHS).

politics

executive

Annemarie Berlinger-Staub ( SP ) has been mayor since 2018 . She is the first woman in this position.

The executive is a five-member local council , which from 2018 consists of Annemarie Berlinger-Staub (SP), Thomas Brönnimann ( Green Liberals ), Christian Burren (SVP), Hans-Peter Kohler ( FDP ) and Hansueli Pestalozzi ( Greens ).

legislative branch

The legislative branch is the 40-member municipal parliament , whose seats are distributed as follows:

6th

10

3

4th

1

2

6th

8th

6th 10 3 4th 1 2 6th 8th 

A total of 40 seats

• GPS : 6
• SP : 10
• EVP : 3
• glp : 4
• CVP : 1
• BDP : 2
• FDP : 6
• SVP : 8

Political party	1961	1965	1969	1974	1977	1981	1985	1989	1993	1997	2001	2005	2009	2013	2017	2018
SP	12	12	10	10	10	11	9	10	10	12	12	12	10	10	10	10
SVP	11	12	11	10	10	10	8th	9	9	8th	9	8th	8th	9	8th	8th
FDP (including JF )	12	11	11	9	10	9	8th	8th	8th	9	9	9	7th	5	6th	6th
Green 1	-	-	-	-	1	2	2	3	2	2	3	5	5	5	6th	6th
glp	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	3	4th	4th
EPP	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	3	3
BDP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	5	2	2
CVP	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1
Rights 2	-	-	-	3	2	2	5	3	5	3	2	1	-	-	-	-
LdU	1	1	4th	3	2	1	2	2	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-

¹ includes Democratic Alternative / Green Party (1977–1993), Green Free List (1993, 2001, 2005), Green Alliance (1997, 2001, 2005), Green Köniz (since 2009) and Young Greens (since 2013)

² Collective term for the following parties and lists: National Action / Swiss Democrats (1977–1989, 2001), Auto Party (1993), Party for Just Tax Policy (PGSP, 2001), "SD, FPS and PGSP" (1997), " SD and PGSP "(2005)

National elections

The voting shares of the parties on the occasion of the National Council elections in 2019 were: SP 21.8%, SVP 18.2%, GPS 18.2%, glp 13.0%, FDP 9.7%, BDP 6.5%, EPP 4.5 %, CVP 2.5%, EDU (incl. DM) 1.1%.

Villages of the municipality

Koenizer quarters

District of Köniz

The municipality of Köniz consists of numerous localities:

Locality	Residents	BFS code
Wobble	7,997	355001
Koeniz	7,099	355004
Love field	6'214	355003
mirror	4,593	355002
Streak	4,379	355006
Niedererli	2,229	355011
Niederwangen	1,907	355005
Upper cheeks	1,370	355008
reed	1,393	?
Thörishaus	1,181	355010
Dwindling	1,148	?
Middle houses	972	?
Gasel	748	355007
Oberscherli	473	355009
Hahlen	321	?
Liebewil	128	?
Mengestorf	108	?
Ulmiz	106	?
Schlatt	103	?
moss	93	?
Oberried	79	?
Herzwil	53	?
Total	42,694

Attention: Since the FSO codes completely cover the municipality, the towns without a code must be included in one of the eleven areas of towns that have been assigned one.

economy

There are over 1,400 companies in the municipality of Köniz. These include corporations such as Adval Tech Holding or Haag-Streit Holding and numerous small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as various federal companies: Federal Office of Public Health , Federal Office of Topography , Federal Institute for Metrology , State Secretariat for Migration , Federal Office for Food Safety and Veterinary , Agricultural Research Institute ( Agroscope ) and the Institute for Virology and Immunology . The Swisscom has announced the end of January 2020 to leave the site in Köniz.

education

Education in the municipality of Köniz can be completed from kindergarten to grammar school. Thanks to a decentralized school system - 17 school buildings at 15 locations - the ways to school are relatively short. The community also runs a sports and music school and promotes apprenticeships and adult education.

Associations and institutions

There are over 200 clubs and cultural institutions in the municipality of Köniz.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Köniz

• Reformed Church of Köniz
• lock
• Reformed Church in Wabern near Bern
• Furnace house
• Gird
• Ulmizberg observation tower

Personalities

• Rudolf von Diesbach (1734–1797), Vogt von Köniz
• Otto Rudolf Salvisberg (1882–1940), architect
• Werner Schwarz (1918–1994), artist
• Linda Geiser (born 1935), actress
• Fritz Nydegger (1937–1993), actor and director
• Lukas Hartmann (* 1944), writer
• Luc Mentha (* 1952), mayor and councilor (SP)
• Ueli Studer (* 1953), politician (SVP)
• Simonetta Sommaruga (* 1960), Federal Councilor (SP)
• Thomas Wegmüller (* 1960), cyclist
• Thomas Staubli (* 1962), Catholic theologian
• Marco Streit (* 1975), Swiss-Italian ice hockey goalkeeper
• Marco Wölfli (* 1982), goalkeeper for BSC Young Boys
• Stefan Tschannen (* 1984), ice hockey player
• Mujinga Kambundji (* 1992), athlete, lives in Liebefeld

literature

General

• Koeniz . Kulturbuchverlag, Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-905939-11-8
• Akzent Baukultur: Köniz , Bern: Berner Heimatschutz, 2012, ISSN  1664-6843

history

• Anne-Marie Dubler : Köniz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Armand Baeriswyl: Archaeological investigations in the castle in Köniz: New results and hypotheses on the type of construction and function of the knight commander. In: Mittelalter, Zeitschrift des Schweizerischen Burgenverein 6, 2001, pp. 81–94.
• Otto Büssard: Köniz, pictures from the past, local history contribution to the village history of Köniz , local association Köniz, 1979
• Helvetia Sacra Abt. IV, The Orders with Augustinian Rule . Vol. 7: The Servites, the Pauline Hermits, the Lazarite and Lazarite Sisters, the Templars, the Johanniter and the Teutonic Order in Switzerland . Basel 2006, ISBN 978-3-7965-2153-9 .
• Peter Mosimann: On historical paths. Köniz and the surrounding area . Stämpfli, Bern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7272-1201-7 .
• Susanne Ritter-Lutz: Church and Castle Köniz , Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 2012. ISBN 978-3-03797-058-4

Web links

Further content in the sister projects of Wikipedia:
	Commons	- multimedia content
	Wikidata	- knowledge database

• Official website of the municipality of Köniz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Facts & Figures. Retrieved January 28, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Permanent resident population from STAT-TAB of the BfS , municipalities see also regional portraits 2020 on bfs.admin.ch, accessed on May 29, 2020
3. ↑ Köniz key figures. Population. In: admin.ch. Federal Statistical Office, 2014, accessed on March 14, 2015 . 
4. ^ The members of the parish council. In: koeniz.ch. Municipality of Köniz, accessed on January 8, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Otto Büssard: Köniz, pictures from the past, local history contribution to the village history of Köniz , local association Köniz, 1979, pp. 43–48
6. ↑ Köniz celebrated the Wakker Prize 2012. Municipality of Köniz, 2012, accessed on May 6, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Elections 2017 . ( koeniz.ch [accessed on October 22, 2017]).
8. ↑ Elected candidates. (PDF) Municipality of Köniz, September 24, 2017, accessed on September 29, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Allocation of seats to the parties in the Köniz Parliament from 1920 to 2013. (PDF, 21 kB) (No longer available online.) Municipality of Köniz, archived from the original on May 6, 2016 ; accessed on May 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Allocation of seats, Parliament Köniz 2017. Municipality of Köniz, September 24, 2017, accessed on September 26, 2017 . 
11. ↑ https://www.koeniz.ch/politik/gemeindeparlament/gemeindeparlament.page/777 , PDF historical seat distribution 1920–2021
12. ↑ Elections and Votes. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Facts & Figures. Municipality of Köniz, accessed on January 24, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Business location Köniz. Municipality of Köniz, accessed on May 6, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Swisscom curbs jobs - a heavy blow for Köniz. In: srf.ch. January 30, 2020, accessed January 30, 2020 . 
16. ↑ 1200 Swisscom employees have to curb. In: cash.ch. January 30, 2020, accessed January 30, 2020 . 
17. ^ School system in the municipality of Köniz
18. ↑ Associations. Retrieved September 19, 2019 . 
19. ^ Susanne Ritter-Lutz: Church and Castle Köniz. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 910, Series 91). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2012, ISBN 978-3-03797-058-4 .
20. ↑ René Moeri: Köniz. Church, castle. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 214). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1976, ISBN 978-3-85782-214-8 .