Kirchberg BE

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Kirchberg
Kirchberg coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton BernCanton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district : Emmentalw
BFS no. : 0412i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 3422
UN / LOCODE : CH KHB
Coordinates : 611 199  /  215 022 coordinates: 47 ° 5 '10 "  N , 7 ° 35' 10"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and eleven thousand one hundred and ninety-nine  /  two hundred and fifteen thousand and twenty-two
Height : 505  m above sea level M.
Height range : 493–635 m above sea level M.
Area : 9.05  km²
Residents: 5965 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 618 inhabitants per km²
Mayor : Marianne Nyffenegger ( SVP )
Website: www.kirchberg-be.ch
Aerial photo of Kirchberg, taken from a balloon on April 16, 2011

Aerial photo of Kirchberg, taken from a balloon on April 16, 2011
Location of the municipality
Brienzersee Kanton Luzern Kanton Solothurn Kanton Solothurn Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland Verwaltungskreis Interlaken-Oberhasli Verwaltungskreis Seeland Verwaltungskreis Thun Verwaltungskreis Oberaargau Aefligen Affoltern im Emmental Alchenstorf Bätterkinden Burgdorf BE Dürrenroth Eggiwil Ersigen Hasle bei Burgdorf Heimiswil Heimiswil Hellsau Hindelbank Höchstetten BE Kernenried Kirchberg BE Koppigen Krauchthal Langnau im Emmental Lauperswil Lützelflüh Lützelflüh Lützelflüh Lyssach Mötschwil Oberburg BE Oberburg BE Oberburg BE Röthenbach im Emmental Rüderswil Rüdtligen-Alchenflüh Rüegsau Rumendingen Rüti bei Lyssach Schangnau Signau Sumiswald Trachselwald Trub Trubschachen Utzenstorf Wiler bei Utzenstorf Willadingen Wynigen ZielebachMap of Kirchberg
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Kirchberg ( Bern German Chiupberg ) is a municipality in the Emmental administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland . It is located about 24 km northeast of the city of Bern .

geography

Kirchberg is on the right-hand side of the Emme , which is crossed by major traffic routes. The Ösch flows through the eastern part of the community area . Of the approximately 905 hectares of the community area, 135 hectares are settlements, 458 hectares are agricultural land and about 301 hectares are forest.

Neighboring communities are the town of Burgdorf in the south, Lyssach and Rüdtligen-Alchenflüh in the southwest and Utzenstorf , Ersigen and Rumendingen in the north.

history

Aerial photograph by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)

The name of the village comes from the church on the Kirchhoger , a hill near Höchfeld, which has existed since the early Middle Ages . The current church dates from 1506.

The village is first mentioned in a document in 994. At that time the village belonged to the Seltz monastery in Alsace . In 1481 Kirchberg was bought by the city of Bern. In Helvetic , the land was then given away to the legal owners, and the shared forests and commons went into private ownership. As early as the 18th century, factories were operating in Kirchberg that produced for export.

population

The population has more than tripled since the beginning of the 20th century. On December 31, 2016, the municipality had 5,914 inhabitants (January 1, 2001: 5,326, December 31, 2005: 5,526, December 31, 2006: 5,614).

Population development
year 1850 1880 1888 1900 1910 1920 1930 1941
Residents 1092 1535 1512 1733 2069 2316 2498 2581
year 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2017
Residents 2776 3304 3595 3966 4760 5244 5579 5940

politics

The voting shares of the parties in the 2019 National Council election were: SVP 30.3%, BDP 13.5%, SP 15.5%, FDP 12.0%, glp 11.0%, GPS 8.2%, EVP 3.3 %, CVP 1.3%, EDU 1.1%, pirates 0.9%.

traffic

Kirchberg is located on the Bern - Zurich motorway , which has a connection west of the village , and on the Burgdorf - Solothurn railway line  ( BLS , formerly Regionalverkehr Mittelland ) with the Kirchberg-Alchenflüh train station on the left side of the Emme.

Since 2001, a bypass road has relieved the community of feeder traffic to the Kirchberg motorway junction. At the beginning of 2001 there were 19,800 vehicles per day, after the opening there are still 10,700 vehicles driving through the center of Kirchberg. The bypass leads over a new Emme bridge.

The new railway line Mattstetten – Rothrist crosses under the Emme near Kirchberg in the Emmetunnel .

Sports

Sports hall «Grossmatt»

In 2005 the triple gym "Grossmatt" was completed, in which international games of national teams in the sports of handball and floorball have been played since the opening . In 2007, the Swiss elite table tennis championships and the U-19 floorball world championships took place here. On the final day of the games for 3rd place Switzerland - Finland and the subsequent Czech Republic - Sweden final, the hall was sold out with 1,300 spectators. The hall is often occupied by the Kirchberg gymnastics club as well as fistball, floorball and handball clubs in the region, which also host championship games in the hall.

Attractions

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Panorama towards Jura (left: Kirchberg BE municipality; Ersigen municipality right)

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Kirchberg  - 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. ↑ Numbers and facts. Kirchberg BE municipality, December 31, 2016, archived from the original on June 8, 2017 ; accessed on July 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Results of the Kirchberg community. State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern, October 20, 2019, accessed on July 30, 2020 .
  4. ^ Michael Gerber: The parish church Kirchberg, Canton Bern. (= Swiss Art Guide, No. 597). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1996, ISBN 978-3-85782-597-2 .