Oberönz

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Bern (BE)

Administrative district :

Oberaargau

Residential municipality :

Herzogenbuchsee

Postal code :

3363

Coordinates :

619 391 / 225450 coordinates: 47 ° 10 '47 " N , 7 ° 41' 40" O ; CH1903: 619391 / 225450

Height :

465 m above sea level M.

Area :

3.0 km²

Residents:

941 (December 31, 2007)

Population density :

314 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.herhabenbuchsee.ch

map

Parish before the merger on January 1st, 2008

Oberönz is a village in the Herzogenbuchsee municipality in the former district of Wangen in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

On January 1, 2008, the former municipality merged with the municipality of Herzogenbuchsee . The new municipality is called Herzogenbuchsee .

geography

Oberönz lies at 465 m above sea level. M. , one kilometer southwest of Herzogenbuchsee and eight kilometers west-southwest of the city of Langenthal (linear distance ). The village stretches across the broad gravel plain of the Önz , where it emerges from the molasse hills of the higher plateau , in Oberaargau .

The 3.0 km² large former municipal area comprises a weak relief section of the northern Bernese Mittelland . The main part of the area is taken up by the up to 2 km wide plain of the Önz near Herzogenbuchsee. The Önz flows from south to north through the community spell. In the southwest the plain is bounded by the forest hills Aspi ( 490 m above sea level ) and Neuholz . On the north flank of the height of Steinhof is 535 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Oberönz. In the far west, the former municipal area extends into the Chlepfimoos moorland and almost to the banks of Lake Burgäschisee . In 1997, 14% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 38% for forests and woodlands and 48% for agriculture.

The outer settlement of Moos ( 465 m above sea level ) on the northern edge of the Aspi Forest belongs to Oberönz.

population

With 941 inhabitants (at the end of 2007) Oberönz was one of the smaller communities in the canton of Bern. 90.8% of the residents are German-speaking, 3.6% Turkish-speaking and 2.3% speak Albanian (as of 2000). The population of Oberönz was 385 in 1850 and 327 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population increased slowly to 463 people by 1960. After that, a rapid population increase was recorded until 1990. Since then, the population has always been in the range of around 880 people. The settlement area of Oberönz has now grown together seamlessly with those of Herzogenbuchsee and Niederönz.

economy

Up until the second half of the 20th century, Oberönz was a village dominated by agriculture . Even today arable farming, thanks to the fertile soils, as well as cattle breeding and forestry have an important place in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. Today in Oberönz there are construction and transport businesses and an art locksmith's shop. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many employed people are therefore commuters who work mainly in the Langenthal-Herzogenbuchsee region, some also in the Solothurn area .

traffic

The village is very well developed in terms of traffic. It is located near the main road 1 from Bern to Zurich , from which the state road to Solothurn branches off. Oberönz is connected to the public transport network by a bus line that runs from Herzogenbuchsee to Wynigen .

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1139 under the name Oentze . Later the names Onza (1166), Onze (1248), Honzen (1258), Uenzo (1263) and Onz (1278) appeared; only the name of 1356 ( Obernönze ) is clear . Thereafter, the spellings Ober Öntze (1367), Obernöntz and Obren Entz (1378) have been handed down.

In the Middle Ages, Oberönz was initially under the sovereignty of the Dukes of Zähringen, from 1218 under that of the Kyburger and belonged to the court of the Herzogenbuchsee Provost. In 1406, Oberönz came under the rule of Bern and was assigned to the Bailiwick of Wangen. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village belonged to the district of Wangen during the Helvetic period and from 1803 to the Oberamt Wangen, which received the status of an official district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831. On January 1, 2008, the municipality of Oberönz merged with the municipality of Herzogenbuchsee .

Attractions

In the old town center some characteristic farmhouses in the Bernese country style from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved. Oberönz does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish Herzogenbuchsee.