Limpach BE

BE is the abbreviation for the canton of Bern in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Limpach .

Limpach

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Bern (BE)

Administrative district :

Bern-Mittelland

Residential municipality :

Fraubrunnen

Postal code :

3317

former BFS no. :

0542

Coordinates :

604 195 / 217 514 coordinates: 47 ° 6 '31 " N , 7 ° 29' 38" O ; CH1903: 604 195 / 217514

Height :

473 m above sea level M.

Area :

4.4 km²

Residents:

338 (December 31, 2007)

Population density :

77 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.limpach.ch

Limpach with church

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2014

Until December 31, 2013, Limpach was a political municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district of the canton of Bern in Switzerland . On January 1, 2014, Limpach merged with the municipalities of Büren zum Hof , Etzelkofen , Grafenried , Mülchi , Schalunen and Zauggenried to form the municipality of Fraubrunnen .

geography

Limpach lies at 473 m above sea level. M. , twelve kilometers south-southwest of the city of Solothurn (linear distance ). The Haufendorf extends on the southern border of the plane of Limpachtals , on a flat alluvial the village stream that exits here the heights of the northeastern Rapperswiler plateaus, in the Swiss plateau .

The area of the 4.4 km² large municipality covers a section of the Bernese Mittelland. The northern border runs along the canalized Limpach. From here, the municipality extends southward over the approximately 1 km wide Limpachmoos to the adjacent undulating landscape of the Rapperswil plateau. The heights of Buechwald , Schachen ( 509 m above sea level ), Widacher ( 535 m above sea level ) and Buechhubel , at which 550 m above sea level. M. the highest elevation of Limpach is reached, are partly wooded, partly with arable and meadow land. In 1997, 7% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 22% for forests and woodlands and 71% for agriculture.

The Vorimholz settlement ( 500 m above sea level ) on the Schachenhöhe to the east of the village belongs to Limpach . Until December 31, 2013 , neighboring communities of Limpach were Bätterkinden , Schalunen , Büren zum Hof and Mülchi in the canton of Bern and Unterramsern and Aetingen in the canton of Solothurn .

population

With 338 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2007) Limpach was one of the small communities in the canton of Bern. 99.7% of the residents speak German and 0.3% speak Albanian (as of 2000). The population of Limpach was 426 in 1850 and 407 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century the population decreased slowly but continuously by around 25% to 312 people until 1980. Since then, she has always commuted between 300 and 330 inhabitants.

politics

The voting shares of the parties on the occasion of the National Council elections in 2011 were: SVP 52.6%, BDP 23.4%, GPS 6.3%, SP 5.0%, FDP 3.4%, glp 2.9%, Alpine Parliament 2.1 %, EVP 1.1%, CVP 1.1%, EDU 0.2%.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Limpach was a predominantly agricultural village. Even today, arable farming , fruit growing , dairy farming and cattle breeding play an important role in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. Today in Limpach there are companies in the building trade, IT and a roofing company. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many employed people are therefore commuters who work mainly in the larger towns in the area as well as in the Bern agglomeration and in the Solothurn area.

traffic

The village is located off the major thoroughfare of a connecting road from Bätterkinden to Lyss . Limpach is connected to the public transport network through a Postbus course , which runs the route from Bätterkinden to Messen .

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1276 under its current name; The name Linbach has been handed down from 1290 . The place name originally served as a water body name and goes back to the Old High German word linta (linden tree). It means the stream with lime trees .

Since the Middle Ages Limpach has been under the sovereignty of the Counts of Kyburg . In the 13th century, the Cistercian monastery Fraubrunnen acquired the manor and the tithe over Limpach. In 1406 the village came under the rule of Bern and in 1528, after the secularization of the Fraubrunnen Abbey, it was assigned to the Fraubrunnen Landvogtei in the Zollikofen district court . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Limpach belonged to the Zollikofen district during the Helvetic Republic and from 1803 to the Fraubrunnen Oberamt, which was given the status of an administrative district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831.

As early as the 18th century, great efforts were made to counteract the swamping of the Limpach valley. New cultivated land, however, was only during the cross-cantonal land improvement gained in the years 1939-1951. Later pumping stations had to be built to prevent renewed swamping.

Attractions

The Reformed Church of Limpach was built in 1808 in the classicism style on the site of a previous medieval building. It has an interior in the Empire style. The picturesque village center with its numerous farmhouses in the Bernese country style from the 17th to 19th centuries is one of the sites of national importance worth protecting. On the edge of the Limpachmoos is the Taunersiedlung Moosgasse, which was built from the 17th century, fell victim to a fire in 1836 and was subsequently restored.

Reformed Church Limpach
Interior of the church, organ
Half-timbered house in Limpach
Wooden house in Limpach
Village center

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.wahlarchiv.sites.be.ch/wahlen2011/target/NAWAInternetAction.do@method=read&sprache=d&typ=21&gem=542.html accessed on July 11, 2012

[1] ttp://www.wahlarchiv.sites.be.ch/wahlen2011/target/NAWAInternetAction.do@method=read&sprache=d&typ=21&gem=542.html accessed on July 11, 2012