Lauenen

Lauenen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Obersimmental-Saanen
BFS no. :	0842
Postal code :	3782
Coordinates :	590 622  /  140598 coordinates: 46 ° 25 '0 "  N , 7 ° 19' 0"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred ninety thousand six hundred and twenty-two  /  140598
Height :	1252  m above sea level M.
Height range :	1144-3247 m above sea level M.
Area :	58.49  km²
Residents:	827 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	14 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.lauenen.ch
Church and village center of Lauenen
Location of the municipality

Lauenen ( French Lauvine ) is a municipality in the Obersimmental-Saanen administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

Besides the resident community there is no civic community. There is also a parish of the Reformed Churches Bern-Jura-Solothurn .

Surname

Lauenen (Romanesque lavina ) is known as a place with landslides and a high risk of avalanches. Lauenen is first mentioned historically in 1296 as on the lowinon .

Lake Lauenen

View of Lauensee and Lauenen

geography

Lauenen is located in the Bernese Oberland in the Lauenen Valley. The neighboring communities starting from the north in a clockwise direction are Saanen , Lenk , Ayent , Savièse and Gsteig near Gstaad .

The mountains in the south of the municipality, z. B. the Wildhorn ( 3248  m above sea level. M. ), form the border to Valais . The lowest point of the community is at 1153  m above sea level. M. (Engewald) in a southerly direction, the Wildhorn is the highest peak.

The Tungel Glacier , the Gelten Glacier and the Lauenen Lake are located in Lauenen .

Of the total area of ​​58.71 km² (29.59 km²), more than half is agricultural land, 12.77 km² is forest and only 0.23 km² is settlement area.

politics

The voting shares of the parties at the 2015 National Council election were: SVP 67.0%, BDP 7.1%, FDP 6.2%, SP 5.7%, EDU 5.2%, GPS 2.7%, EVP 2.2 %, glp 2.0%, CVP 1.1%.

Partner municipality

• Babylon , Czech Republic

Personalities

• Julius Stadler (1828–1904), Swiss architect and university professor, died in Lauenen
• Ernst Friedrich Langhans (1829–1880) worked from 1855 to 1858 in Lauenen as a Reformed pastor
• Gottfried Strasser (1854–1912), pastor and poet (born in Lauenen)
• Bertha Züriche r (1869–1949), painter and writer often stayed in Lauenen.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Lauenen

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Lauenen
• Anne-Marie Dubler : Lauenen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Lauenen in: Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland (1902)

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. ↑ [1]
3. ↑ Results of the community of Lauenen. State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern, October 18, 2015, accessed on October 30, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Partner municipality Babylon (CZ) on www.lauenen.ch. In: www.lauenen.ch. Retrieved August 9, 2016 .