Mörigen

Mörigen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Biel / Bienne
BFS no. :	0742
Postal code :	2572
Coordinates :	582 902  /  214928 coordinates: 47 ° 5 '7 "  N , 7 ° 12' 48"  O ; CH1903:  582 902  /  214928
Height :	491  m above sea level M.
Height range :	429-546 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.16  km²
Residents:	879 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	407 inhabitants per km²
Mayor :	Francine Schmid
Website:	www.moerigen.ch
Mörigen
Location of the municipality

Mörigen (in local dialect Mörge [ ˈmœɾg̊ə ], French Morenges ) is a political municipality with its own residents and civic municipality in the Biel / Bienne administrative district of the Swiss canton of Bern .

geography

Mörigen is located in the Bernese Seeland on the south bank of Lake Biel . The neighboring communities starting from the north in a clockwise direction are Sutz-Lattrigen , Hermigen , Epsach and Täuffelen .

population

Mörigen is 92.6% a German-speaking community, 6.1% of the population is French-speaking.

politics

Mayor is Francine Schmid (as of 2019)

The voting shares of the parties on the occasion of the National Council election in 2015 were: SVP 43.3%, FDP 20.2%, BDP 13.7%, SP 7.5%, glp 5.7%, GPS 3.5%, CVP 1.3 %, EVP 1.1%, EDU 0.5%.

traffic

The village has a stop for the Biel-Täuffelen-Ins-Bahn BTI .

schools

The primary school of the first to sixth grade is run together with that of Sutz-Lattrigen.

history

In 1843 Albert Jahn discovered a Bronze Age pile dwelling settlement that lies on the shores of Lake Biel. The discoveries that were made at one time formed the basis of the Schwab Museum in Biel , the Laténium in Hauterive and the Swiss National Museum . The finds, some from later archaeological excavations, include a. Brooches , snaffles , weapons and tools. A Bronze Age sword type has been named after this site (sword of the Mörigen type or Mörigen swords).

Remnants of settlements from Roman times were found on the northern boundary of the municipality, and graves from the early Middle Ages on the lake shore . The place name appears from 1196 as a designation of origin for the personal names Burc (h) ardus / Jacobus de Moringe ( n ) / Moringin / Muͤringen / M ( u ) oringun / Morens / Morans . It is a derivation with the affiliation suffix -ing- from the Latin personal name Maurus / Mauro / Mōro . In 1398 Mörigen came to Bern and belonged to the Lattrigen judicial district of the Landvogtei Nidau .

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Mörigen

photos

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  Quartierstrasse above the train station

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  The Bronze Age moon horns of Mörigen

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  BTI stop

literature

• Andres Moser: The art monuments of the canton of Bern. Landband 2: The Erlach district, the Nidau ​​district. Part 1. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Wiese, Basel 1998, (Art Monuments of Switzerland, Volume 90). ISBN 3-909164-63-3 . Pp. 415-419.

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Mörigen
• Felix Müller, Anne-Marie Dubler : Mörigen. 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. ↑ Municipal Council | Mörigen municipality. Retrieved August 13, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Andres Kristol: Mörigen BE (Nidau) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss municipality names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 591. Given phonetic transcription : [ ˈmœrgə ].
4. ^ Results of the municipality of Mörigen. State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern, October 18, 2015, accessed on October 30, 2016 . 
5. ↑ u. a. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , Volume 33; 1911-1919; Reprint 2006–2010 ( online in Google Book Search)