Krauchthal

This article deals with the municipality of Krauchthal. For the noble family, see Krauchthal (noble family) .

Krauchthal
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Emmental
BFS no. :	0414
Postal code :	3326 Krauchthal 3325 Hettiswil
Coordinates :	609 842  /  206681 coordinates: 47 ° 0 '40 "  N , 7 ° 34' 5"  O ; CH1903:  609,842  /  206681
Height :	585  m above sea level M.
Height range :	533–940 m above sea level M.
Area :	19.43  km²
Residents:	2366 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	122 inhabitants per km²
Mayor :	Beat Lauber ( independent )
Website:	www.krauchthal.ch
Church of Krauchthal
Location of the municipality

Krauchthal is a municipality in the Emmental administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland . The community consists of the localities Krauchthal (with Hub and Dieterswald) and Hettiswil (with Grauenstein and Hängelen).

geography

Lindenzytli Hettiswil

The community is located in the foothills of the Alps in the valley of the Krauchalbach and opens the Emmental from the north. It is located almost exactly between the cities of Bern and Burgdorf . The two localities of Krauchthal and Hub are located in a narrow valley that stretches in an east-west direction. Dieterswald, on the other hand, lies on a slightly sloping plateau. Hettiswil is located to the north with an open view over the Bernese plateau with a view as far as the southern foot of the Jura in moderately hilly terrain.

Krauchthal borders in the north on Mötschwil , in the northeast on Burgdorf , in the east on Oberburg , in the southeast on Lützelflüh , in the south on Vechigen , in the south-west on Bolligen , in the west on Bäriswil and in the north-west on Mattstetten and Hindelbank .

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Krauchthal

Immediately on the eastern edge of the village rises the almost one hundred meter high vertical rock pinnacle Kreuzfluh, on top of which there is a viewing pavilion. At the foot of the Lindenberg, the Ice Age glaciers had washed away caves that were already inhabited by people in the Stone Age. The cave dwellings of the Fluehüsli are located in these today. Thorberg Castle stands on a rock pinnacle southwest of the village . The landmark of Hettiswil is the Lindenzytli monastery bell .

history

Aerial photo (1954)

Kreuzfluh

The names of the localities appear for the first time as follows: Krauchthal 1208, Hettiswil 1107, Hub and Dieterswald 1329 and Thorberg 1196. Krauchthal and Hettiswil were coined by the Thorberg Charterhouse and the Cluniac Priory of Hettiswil until the Reformation (1528) . After the Reformation, Thorberg Castle served as the seat of a Bernese governor and is now home to a cantonal penal institution .

politics

The voting shares of the parties in the 2019 National Council election were: SVP 42.1%, BDP 11.5%, SP 11.9%, FDP 8.0%, GPS 8.1%, EPP 3.1%, glp 6.1 %, EDU 2.2%, SD 1.0%, PdA 0.9%.

Sports

Krauchthal has a women's netball team that plays in the NLA (as of 2010). In Krauchthal there is also a Hornusserverein (National League A) and a floorball club. The floorball club consists of two men's teams and one women's team, who all play floorball on a small pitch. In 2015, the men's team was promoted to the top division for the first time (1st division floorball small field).

Sons and daughters of the church

• Helmut Hubacher (1926–2020), politician (SP), author and columnist
• Fritz Hans Schweingruber (1936–2020), dendrochronologist and professor of forest dynamics and dendro sciences

Partner municipality

• Kamenný Újezd , Czech Republic

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Krauchthal
• Anne-Marie Dubler : Krauchthal. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Anne-Marie Dubler: Hettiswil (settlement). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Kathrin Utz Tremp : Hettiswil (monastery). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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. ↑ Fluehüsli in the municipality of Krauchthal
3. ↑ Results of the Krauchthal community. State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern, October 20, 2019, accessed on July 30, 2020 .