Ochlenberg

Ochlenberg
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Oberaargau
BFS no. :	0985
Postal code :	3367
Coordinates :	622 541  /  222 095 coordinates: 47 ° 8 '58 "  N , 7 ° 44' 9"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and twenty-two thousand five hundred and forty-one  /  222095
Height :	580  m above sea level M.
Height range :	512–813 m above sea level M.
Area :	12.12  km²
Residents:	570 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	47 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.ochlenberg.ch
View from Stauffenfeld to Ochlenberg
Location of the municipality

Ochlenberg is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

geography

Ochlenberg lies at 580  m above sea level. M. , 8 km south-southwest of the city of Langenthal (linear distance). The scattered settlement community extends in the Buchsibergen , a molasse hill country between the valleys of Önz in the west and Langete in the east, on a terrace east of the Stauffenbach valley, in Oberaargau .

The area of ​​the 12.1 km² municipal area covers a section of the Bernese Mittelland . The area has a great variety of landscapes with numerous hills and valleys and hardly any flat areas. Through the Stauffenbach with its short side streams, the municipal ban is drained north to the Önz. In the east, the border runs largely on the watershed between the Stauffenbach and the Langete and lies on the forest heights of Dornegggütsch ( 739  m above sea level ) and Weidwald ( 750  m above sea level ). To the south, the communal soil extends into the more strongly reliefed terrain in the headwaters of the Stauffenbach and reaches 808  m above sea level in the Eggstutzwald . M. , at the height of the Lindenberg above Wäckerschwend with 811  m above sea level. M. the highest point of Ochlenberg. In the west and northwest, the area extends over the heights of Oschwand and Spych to the high plateau of the Humberg ( 597  m above sea level ). In 1997, 5% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 33% for forests and woodlands and 62% for agriculture.

A number of hamlets, farm settlements and individual farms belong to Ochlenberg. The important ones are:

• Dornegg ( 606  m above sea level ) on a terrace west of the Dornegggütsch
• Duppetal ( 566  m above sea level ) in a valley west of the Dornegggütsch
• Willershüseren ( 576  m above sea level ) on a terrace east of the Stauffenbach valley
• Stauffenbach ( 541  m above sea level ) on the stream of the same name
• Sulzberg ( 567  m above sea level ) on the slope west of the Stauffenbach
• Humberg (Homberg), consisting of Vorder Humberg ( 572  m above sea level ) and Hinterer Humberg, ( 578  m above sea level ) on the Humberg plateau
• Spych ( 605  m above sea level ) north of the Heidetewald
• Oschwand ( 626  m above sea level ) on a saddle east of the Heidetewald, only the houses east of Dorfstrasse belong to Ochlenberg
• Aspi ( 632  m above sea level ) on the slope west of the Stauffenbach
• Wäckerschwend ( 738  m above sea level ) in the headwaters of the Stauffenbach

Neighboring communities of Ochlenberg are Thörigen , Bleienbach , Rütschelen , Madiswil , Ursenbach , Oeschenbach , Wynigen , Seeberg , Hermiswil and Bettenhausen .

population

With 570 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Ochlenberg is one of the smaller communities in the canton of Bern. 99.4% of the residents are German-speaking, 0.5% French-speaking and 0.1% speak Russian (as of 2000). The population of Ochlenberg was 1093 in 1850, compared to 914 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population decreased by a further 30% due to heavy emigration.

economy

Ochlenberg still lives mainly from agriculture , especially from arable farming , fruit growing as well as from dairy farming and cattle breeding . Outside the primary sector, there are few jobs in the community. Some workers are commuters who mainly work in the Langenthal-Herzogenbuchsee region.

traffic

The community is located off the main thoroughfares, but is easily accessible from Thörigen or Herzogenbuchsee . Ochlenberg has no connection to the public transport network.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1612 under the name Ochliberg . The interpretation of the place name is uncertain. Ochlenberg possibly goes back to the Old High German personal name Achilo and therefore means mountain of Achilo .

Since the Middle Ages, the area of ​​Ochlenberg was under the Kyburgers and belonged to the Egerden court district. In 1406 the village came under Bernese rule and was assigned to the Bailiwick of Wangen. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Ochlenberg belonged to the district of Wangen during the Helvetic Republic and from 1803 to the Oberamt Wangen, which was given the status of an official district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Ochlenberg

In the various hamlets of Ochlenberg, characteristic farmhouses in the Bernese country style with warehouses and sticks from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved. Particularly noteworthy are the court groups of Dornegg, Ochlenberg, Spych, Willershäusern and Wäckerschwend. Ochlenberg does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish Herzogenbuchsee.

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Ochlenberg
• Anne-Marie Dubler : Ochlenberg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Ochlenberg remains Ochlenberg , in: NZZ from April 9, 2016

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