Langenthal

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Langenthal
Langenthal coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton BernCanton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district : Oberaargauw
BFS no. : 0329i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 4900-4902 Langenthal
4916 Untersteckholz
UN / LOCODE : CH LAN
Coordinates : 626 533  /  229431 coordinates: 47 ° 12 '55 "  N , 7 ° 47' 20"  O ; CH1903:  626533  /  229431
Height : 481  m above sea level M.
Height range : 450-577 m above sea level M.
Area : 17.23  km²
Residents: i15,624 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 907 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		20% (2,013)
Unemployment rate : 3.6% (2,010)
City President : Reto Müller ( SP )
Website: www.langenthal.ch
Langenthal, Marktgasse

Langenthal, Marktgasse
Location of the municipality
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Langenthal train station
Share of the Ersparniss -Casse in Langenthal from the 23rd Christian month 1823
Youth meeting and cultural center Alte Mühle in Langenthal
Information board at the entrance to the town coming from Rothrist

Langenthal ( Bern German Langetau , Langetu or Langete ) is a town and a political municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

On January 1, 2010, the Untersteckholz community merged with Langenthal to form the Langenthal community. On January 1, 1898, the community of Schoren had merged with Langenthal.

geography

Langenthal is located in the Swiss plateau between Olten and Bern on the banks of the Langete river , which flows through the city from south to north.

history

Aerial photograph by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)

Based on archaeological finds, it can be shown that the area dates back to 4000 BC. Was settled. The archaeological investigations on the line of the Bahn 2000 in Langenthal-Unterhard uncovered a burial place with two burial mounds and 123 earth graves, which was used again and again from the Iron Age to the early Middle Ages , i.e. for around 1500 years. Remains of a thermal bath and a villa on the Geissberg and a villa at the Waldhof date from Roman times.

The first documented mention of Langenthal (Langatun) comes from the year 861. When the St. Urban monastery was founded in 1194, large parts of Oberaargau were under his rule, including many farms in Langatun, including the village of Schoren. After the Langatuners were part of a church in Thunstetten until around 1200 , they got their own church in 1197. From around 1255 this was incorporated into the St. Urban monastery. In 1336 the full ownership rights of the St. Urban monastery in the village of Langenthal (called Langaton at that time) were recognized in a document, and the water mats in the area of ​​the Lower Langetental were built.

When they looted the Swiss Plateau, the Guglers also invaded Langenthal in 1375. In 1415, Langenthal fell under Bernese sovereignty through the conclusion of "perpetual castle rights " between the St. Urban monastery and the city of Bern and was assigned to the office of Wangen. The high jurisdiction and the tax sovereignty were now with Bern, the lower jurisdiction still with the monastery of St. Urban. For over 400 years the people of Langenthal were “servants of two masters”. Under Bernese state sovereignty, the Langenthalers became increasingly self-confident and independent. In addition, after the Reformation they now had the church, the parish clerk, the preacher and the choir court in the village. A regular market was approved as early as 1480.

In 1542 about 1/3 of the entire village was destroyed in a major fire. Shortly afterwards, in 1571, Langenthal received permission to hold two annual markets, one eight days before Pentecost and the second ten days after Martini. In 1613, Langenthal received from Bern permission to build the grain store and department store as well as permission to hold a weekly market every Tuesday. The department store above the Langete, in the middle of the inner commons, became a symbol of the village's will to create itself. In 1653, Langenthal was repeatedly the meeting place of the rebellious peasants during the Peasants' War, which brought him a penalty of 2,256 kroner war costs after the suppression of the uprising.

In the 18th century, Langenthal developed from a farming village into a trading center, where important merchants already had trade relations throughout Europe. In 1758 the " Langenthaler Elle " was introduced, which was 2 inches longer than the "Berner Elle" and was in use for the linen trade until the 19th century. An important step for Langenthal trade was the construction of Bern-Zürich-Strasse in 1760. Only two years later, by decree of the gracious gentlemen of Bern, Langenthal was allowed to bring in and trade in foreign goods like the municipal cities, and in 1785 the permit was granted granted for the establishment of a beer brewery, as there was no one between Burgdorf and Aarau. In 1793 Langenthal was finally put on an equal footing with the cities in commercial matters. The bourgeois merchants now had the right to buy goods freely.

With the sinking of old Bern in 1798, Langenthal was under French occupation for seven weeks. Then the oath was taken on the new Helvetian constitution under the tree of freedom. The citizens (355 voters) had accepted it. Langenthal counted 1581 souls.

The first federal officers' party took place in Langenthal in 1822 and is shown in the so-called “Traffelet Hall” (named after the painter F. Traffelet) of the Hotel Bären. The Swiss officers 'society is founded in Langenthal at this officers' party.

In 1823 the Ersparniskasse Langenthal is founded (the oldest known Swiss bank shares are from the Ersparniskasse), in 1867 the Leihkasse Langenthal (later Bank Langenthal).

In his famous Langenthal speech around 1826, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi dealt with the problems of popular education in the coming factory age and thus set the starting signal for a Swiss-wide educational reform. A short time later (1833) the second secondary school was founded in the canton of Bern (after Kleindietwil ). The first hospital (emergency room) was set up in the city's tithe warehouse in 1835.

In 1857, Langenthal received the rail connection to the SCB line Olten-Herzogenbuchsee, which at that time still ran far north of the village. A dynamic industrial development began: in 1862 the textile company Gugelmann was founded, in 1869 the machine factory Ammann, 1881 the company Ruckstuhl, 1889 the linen weaving mill Langenthal and 1906 the porcelain factory Langenthal; the latter received the world's first electric tunnel furnace in 1937.

With the "Oberaargauer Tagblatt" Langenthal received its own newspaper in 1865 (from 1920 "Langenthaler Tagblatt").

There has been a municipal water supply in Langenthal since 1894; since 1896 the community has been supplied with electricity from the Wynau power station. In 1903, Langenthal, together with other Upper Aargau municipalities, acquired the Aktiengesellschaft Elektrizitätswerke Wynau (it was sold to the Bernische Kraftwerke BKW in 2006).

The city ​​theater was inaugurated in 1916 and the Waldhof cantonal agricultural school in 1922. In 1930 Langenthal received a modern swimming pool, and in 1951 the first large wastewater treatment plant in the Canton of Bern. As early as 1957, the population reached the statistical city limit of 10,000 inhabitants (Langenthal has only officially designated itself as a city since 1997). The Oberaargauische Musikschule opened in 1969 and the Langenthal Regional Library opened in the same building in 1974.

After pressure from various insurance companies, the flood of the century in 1975 led to the construction of the Langete relief tunnel near Madiswil, which was opened in 1991 .

In 2011 the city celebrates its 1150th anniversary. The festival activities are themed to inspire, move, enliven, meet and educate .

In 2019 the city of Langenthal receives the Wakker Prize .

Attractions

gallery

  • Department store ("Choufhüsi")

  • St. Urbanstrasse

  • reformed Church

  • Catholic Church

  • Langenthal Museum

  • Office building

  • Former brewery ("Braui")

  • Water distributor ("Brütsche") in the "Wässermatten"

  • Langete river

politics

legislative branch

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A total of 40 seats

The legislature consists of the forty-member city ​​council . The graphic on the right shows the distribution of seats in the city council after the election on September 25, 2016.

executive

The executive consists of a seven-member municipal council . The city president is Reto Müller ( SP , as of 2017). Other members are: Roberto Di Nino (SVP), Markus Gfeller (FDP), Bernhard Marti (SP), Pierre Masson (SP), Helena Morgenthaler (SVP) and Michael Witschi (FDP).

National elections

The results of the 2019 National Council elections were: SVP 23.6%, SP 20.9%, FDP 15.2%, Greens 12.1%, glp 10.7%, BDP 6.2%, EPP 4.3%, EDU (incl. DM) 2.0%, CVP 1.5%.

economy

Aerial photo of Walter Mittelholzer's brickworks (1924)

Langenthal is a regional economic and industrial location. Companies such as Ammann , Motorex Bucher (lubricating oil technology), KADI AG ( French fries ), the porcelain factory Langenthal , Ruckstuhl (textile floor coverings), Lantal Textiles , Création Baumann (interior furnishing textiles ), Güdel AG and Hector Egger Holzbau AG are based here Thanks to its location on the railway line from Olten to Bern, Langenthal, as the center of the Oberaargau, has considerable economic potential.

Test market

From 1986 to 2005, GfK Switzerland operated a test market in Langenthal. It offered the opportunity to test product launches in a real market representative of German-speaking Switzerland.

Healthcare

Public hospital

Langenthal has a public hospital with 24-hour emergency care. It belongs to the hospital network of the Spital Region Oberaargau (SRO AG).

Private hospital clinic SGM

On the initiative of the doctor Kurt Blatter, the Foundation for Holistic Medicine SGM was founded in 1980 with the aim of helping people in a clinic on a Christian basis. The clinic was built in 1986 and opened in 1987. In 2000 the surgical activity was given up and the focus was on the areas of psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics. A day clinic was opened in 2007. In 2008 the SGM Clinic received the "HOPE Award" for its tireless, holistic commitment to mentally ill people. The clinic was renovated and expanded from 2013 to 2015. In 2014 a family doctor's practice was integrated and the Im Hard restaurant opened. An outpatient clinic was opened in Bern in 2016.

traffic

Langenthal is located at the SBB - railway line Olten-Bern and has half hourly connections to Bern and Olten, hourly to Zurich. The S23 to Baden and the S29 to Turgi run on the SBB railway line. In addition, Langenthal station is the end point of lines S6 and S7 of the Lucerne S-Bahn . The Langenthal-Huttwil-Wolhusen route is part of the BLS AG route network, formerly VHB . The terminal station of two meter-gauge railway lines of the Aare Seeland mobil (ASm), formerly Langenthal-Jura-Bahn and Langenthal-Melchnau-Bahn , is also integrated into the SBB train station . The ASm offers rail connections to St. Urban and Solothurn via Niederbipp, Oensingen. In addition to the SBB train station, Langenthal has three other train stations: Langenthal Süd (operated by BLS AG), Langenthal Gaswerk and Industrie Nord (ASm).

In the Langenthal area, ASm operates two city bus routes and two intercity routes:

51 (Grossdietwil -) Melchnau - Obersteckholz - Langenthal - Bützberg - Herzogenbuchsee - Wangen ad Aare
52 Thunstetten - Langenthal - Bleienbach - Thörigen - Bettenhausen - Bollodingen - Herzogenbuchsee
63 Langenthal, Bahnhof - Industrie Nord - Langenthal, Bahnhof - Tell / Kantonalbank - Spital - Tell / Kantonalbank - Langenthal, Bahnhof (city bus)
64 Lotzwil, Unterdorf - Tell / Kantonalbank - Langenthal, train station - Schoren - Langenthal, train station - Tell / Kantonalbank - Lotzwil, Unterdorf (city bus)

The Langenthal airfield in Bleienbach is primarily used for sports aviation.

culture and education

In addition to the Kunsthaus Langenthal , the Design Center Langenthal is also one of the nationally respected cultural institutes.

Cultural center and restaurant "Chrämerhuus" in Langenthal

In addition, the following cultural institutions should be mentioned:

Primary school centers ( primary level and lower secondary level ):

Upper secondary level :

  • Langenthal Education Center (bzl)
    • Commercial and industrial vocational school Langenthal (gibla)
    • Vocational School Langenthal (bfsl)
    • Gymnasium Oberaargau (gymo)
    • Commercial Vocational School Langenthal (kbsl)

Events

  • Langenthal Carnival
  • The Designers' Saturday , an event that was initiated in 1987, opens every two years for both commercially and privately interested parties. The presentations of the collections of the internationally renowned designers take place in the premises of the local companies. The 13th Designers' Saturday in 2010 drew almost 18,000 visitors to Langenthal.

Sports

Town twinning

Langenthal maintains two town partnerships: with the Valais community of Brig-Glis and with the Italian town of Neviano . The town twinning with Neviano developed from the high proportion of Italian guest workers who found work in Langenthal, including at the Langenthal porcelain factory, Creation Baumann, Ammann Maschinenbau, and Langenthal linen weaving mill. There used to be a student exchange every year, where the Langenthal students went to Italy in autumn and the Nevianesi came to Switzerland in winter.

Personalities

literature

  • Marianne Ramstein, Chantal Hartmann: Langenthal, Unterhard. Burial ground and remains of settlements from the Hallstatt and Latène times, the Roman era and the early Middle Ages. Rub Media, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-907663-13-4 .
  • Valentin Binggeli, Max Jufer, Fritz Lyrenmann, Hans Zaugg: Langenthal. A local history picture documentation with scientific contributions to geography and history. Foundation for the promotion of scientific and local history research on the village and community of Langenthal, Langenthal 1981.
  • Samuel Hermann (text), Jaroslav Cap (pictures): Walk in Langenthal. Langenthal 2008, ISBN 978-3-905817-07-2 .
  • Barbara Frutiger, Ruedi Bösch, Valentin Binggeli: Langenthal. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 646). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1998, ISBN 978-3-85782-646-7 .
  • Langenthaler Heimatblätter. Published by the Foundation for the Promotion of Scientific and Local History Research on the Village and Community of Langenthal. Merkur Druck, Langenthal 1935/1937/1964/1968/1970/1974/1978/1982/1986/1990/1994/1998/2001/2004/2007/2010.

Web links

Commons : Langenthal  - 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. ^ Community search . Population. (No longer available online.) In: bfs.admin.ch. Federal Statistical Office, 2011, archived from the original on July 30, 2012 ; accessed on September 21, 2012 (entry Langenthal ). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfs.admin.ch
  3. ^ Community search . Job. (No longer available online.) In: bfs.admin.ch. Federal Statistical Office, 2011, archived from the original on July 30, 2012 ; accessed on September 21, 2012 (entry Langenthal . Annual average). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfs.admin.ch
  4. ↑ StiASG , Urk. II 239. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 25, 2020.
  5. ↑ History of the savings fund. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
  6. ^ End of the savings fund for the Aarwangen office. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Rudolf Merki: The water protection in Oberaargau. In: Jahrbuch des Oberaargaus , 1974, p. 82
  8. ↑ 1150 . In: Project management 1150 years Langenthal . Archived from the original on November 3, 2011. Retrieved on May 4, 2011.
  9. ↑ election results City Council. (PDF) City of Langenthal, accessed on October 29, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Election results of the municipal council. (PDF) City of Langenthal, accessed on October 29, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Elections and Votes. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Kathrin ter Hofte-Fankhauser, Hans F. Wälty: market research. 3rd edition, Compendio Bildungsmedien AG, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7155-9470-5 , p. 92.
  13. ↑ Sven Reinecke, Simone Janz: Marketing Controlling. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-17-018404-6 , p. 198.
  14. ↑ Company history . In: GfK Switzerland . Retrieved July 12, 2013.
  15. ↑ http://www.klinik-sgm.ch/index.php/geschichte.html
  16. ↑ Urs Byland: SGM Langenthal: A hospital builds on miracles and is trendy , az Langenthaler Tagblatt, June 14, 2012
  17. ↑ Almost 18,000 visitors to the design metropolis Langenthal (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: bueroffice.ch . Retrieved September 21, 2012.
  18. ^ Champagne in Oberwil, Belp and Langenthal . In: Swiss Street Hockey Association SSHA . Retrieved on May 2, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ssha.ch