Lohnstorf

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Bern (BE)

Administrative district :

Bern-Mittelland

Residential municipality :

Thurnen

Postal code :

3127

former BFS no. :

0874

Coordinates :

605490 / 183 948 coordinates: 46 ° 48 '24 " N , 7 ° 30' 38" O ; CH1903: 605490 / 183,948

Height :

570 m above sea level M.

Area :

1.8 km²

Population density :

126 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.lohnstorf.ch

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2020

Until December 31, 2019, Lohnstorf was a political municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district of the canton of Bern in Switzerland . On January 1, 2020, Lohnstorf merged with the former parishes of Kirchenthurnen and Mühlethurnen to form the new municipality of Thurnen .

geography

Lohnstorf lies at 570 m above sea level. M. , 11 km northwest of the city of Thun (linear distance). The farming village extends on the lower eastern slope of the Längenberg, slightly elevated around 20 m above the valley level of the Gürbe .

The area of the 1.8 km² former municipal area includes a section of the central Gürbe valley . The eastern part of the municipality lies in the agriculturally intensively used level of the Gürbe valley ( 550 m above sea level ) which is about 1.5 km wide here. The eastern boundary runs along a dirt road almost exactly in the middle of the valley floor, east of the canalised Gürbe. To the west, the municipality extends over the relatively gently rising slope of Lohnstorf, with the southern border in the area of the promontory of Schönegg. At 780 m above sea level M. , the highest point in Lohnstorf is reached on the eastern slope of Egghölzli . In 1997, 7% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 2% for forests and woodlands and 90% for agriculture; just over 1% was unproductive land.

A few individual farms belong to Lohnstorf. The neighboring communities of Lohnstorf were Mühlethurnen , Kirchdorf (BE) , Burgistein and Riggisberg .

population

With 227 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Lohnstorf was one of the small communities in the canton of Bern. Of the residents, 99.0% spoke German and 1.0% spoke French (as of 2000). The population of Lohnstorf was 170 inhabitants in 1850 and 189 inhabitants in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population has always fluctuated between 160 and 190 people.

politics

The voting shares of the parties in the 2015 National Council elections were: SVP 49.0%, SP 12.3%, BDP 11.0%, GPS 9.6%, FDP 6.1%, glp 3.7%, EDU 3.2 %, PdA 1.7%, ALP 1.1%.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Lohnstorf was a village dominated by agriculture . Even today, arable and vegetable growing (especially cabbage planting) in the Gürbetal, as well as dairy farming and cattle breeding on the slopes, have an important role in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including in a painting shop and in a carpenter's shop. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community thanks to its attractive location. Many employed people are therefore commuters who work mainly in the larger towns in the area, in the agglomeration of Bern or in the Thun area.

traffic

Lohnstorf is very well developed in terms of traffic. It is located on the main road from Bern through the Gürbetal to Thun . Lohnstorf itself has no connection to the public transport network. However, the Thurnen train station on the Gürbetalbahn in Mühlethurnen is easily accessible .

history

The municipality of Lohnstorf was inhabited early on, which could be proven by means of some wall remains of a Roman settlement in Brühl. The first written mention of the place took place in 1148 under the name Lonestorf . Later, the names Lonstorf (1330), Lonesdorf (1345) and Lonsdorf (1354) appeared. The place name goes back to the Old High German personal name Lono and therefore means village of Lono .

In the Middle Ages , Lohnstorf first belonged to the monastery of Rüeggisberg , then to various Bernburg families before it was sold to the Interlaken Monastery in 1343 . The sovereignty over Lohnstorf came to Bern in 1388. Since then, the village has been subordinate to the Seftigen district court. After the Reformation , in 1528 direct rule came from the monastery to the city of Bern, which Lohnstorf assigned to the Thurnen court (from the 18th century the Mühlethurnen court of the Venner).

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Lohnstorf belonged to the Seftigen district during the Helvetic Republic and from 1803 to the Seftigen District Office, which received the status of an official district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831. Since the middle of the 19th century, the Gürbe has been corrected in several stages and the valley, which had previously been affected by floods almost every year, was largely drained. In the course of time, valuable cultivated land was gained. On the night of November 10, 1904, seven houses were badly affected by a major fire. Lohnstorf does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Kirchenthurnen .

Web links

Commons : Lohnstorf - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Elections 2015: Results of the community of Lohnstorf. Canton of Bern, accessed on March 19, 2016.

[1] Elections 2015: Results of the community of Lohnstorf. Canton of Bern, accessed on March 19, 2016.