Orpund

Orpund

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Biel / Biennew
BFS no. :	0744i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	2552
Coordinates :	589 969 / 220 888 coordinates: 47 ° 8 '20 " N , 7 ° 18' 23" O ; CH1903: five hundred eighty-nine thousand nine hundred sixty-nine / 220,88847.138893 7.306394 483
Height :	483 m above sea level M.
Height range :	426-550 m above sea level M.
Area :	3.97 km²
Residents:	2800 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	705 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	17.8% (2,015)
Mayor :	Jürg Räber ( independent )
Website:	www.orpund.ch
Orpund village center
Location of the municipality
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Orpund (in local dialect Orpung [ ˌɔɾˈpuŋ / ˈoːɾpuŋ ], French Orpond (es) ) is a municipality in the Biel / Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland . The political community, also known as the community of residents , includes the village of Orpund, the former Premonstratensian monastery of Gottstatt and the hamlet of Zihlwil . Orpund is a civic community with the same borders .

geography

The neighboring communities of Orpund in the north, starting clockwise, are Safnern , Scheuren , Schwadernau , Brügg and Biel / Bienne . The Aare in the Nidau-Büren Canal forms the southern municipal boundary .

history

Aerial photo of Gottstatt and Orpund (1950)

Finds in various places in the municipality attest to the permanent presence of people since the Neolithic . The place has been documented as Orpunt / Orpont / Or ( t ) variegated since 1255 . The place name is derived from a Latin addition * (ad) aur (e) um pontem , "at the golden yellow bridge".

population

Population development
year	1850	1900	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000	2005	2010	2015
Residents	446	624	891	1,258	2,013	2,321	2,530	2,530	2,620	2,680	2,675

As of 2015, 476 of the 2,675 inhabitants were foreigners (17.8%).

The population growth of Orpund is relatively low, the municipality has only increased by a little over 2% in inhabitants in the last 5 years.

languages

Orpund is 86.6% a German-speaking community. 7% are French-speaking.

religion

The former Premonstratensian Gottstatt on the Nidau-Büren Canal is today's church in Orpund and part of the Evangelical Reformed parish of Gottstatt, to which a large part of the population belongs.

politics

The voting shares of the parties on the occasion of the National Council elections in 2015 were: SVP 37.0%, SP 24.5%, BDP 10.9%, FDP 7.8%, GPS 5.0%, EPP 4.1%, glp 3.6 %, EDU 3.2%, CVP 1.7%.

In Orpund, two parties with local groups are currently (as of 2017) active, the SVP and the SP .

Others

The Royal Arena Festival music festival takes place in Orpund in August .

Partner municipality

Orpund has had a partner municipality in the Czech Republic , Brtnice , since 1991 .

Attractions

photos

Gottstatt monastery church
Interior view of the Gottstatt Church
Kornhaus Gottstatt, seat of the Orpund municipal administration
Bridge over the Nidau-Büren Canal between Orpund and Scheuren
Place-name sign referring to the community partnership with Brtnice

Personalities

Georg Simon Ohm (1789–1854), German physicist, was a math teacher in the former Gottstatt monastery
Emanuel Friedli (1846–1939), Swiss teacher, pastor and dialectologist, was a pastor in Gottstatt for some time
Hausi Straub (* 1928), Swiss musician
Meta Antenen (* 1949), Swiss athlete
Patrick von Gunten (1985), Swiss ice hockey player

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Permanent resident population from STAT-TAB of the BfS , municipalities see also regional portraits 2020 on bfs.admin.ch, accessed on May 29, 2020
↑ Staff: Community search . Population. In: Official website of the FSO. Federal Statistical Office FSO , 2015, accessed on August 27, 2017 (input from Orpund ).
↑ ^a ^b Wulf Müller / Andres Kristol: Orpund BE (Nidau) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community 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. 685f.
↑ Elections 2015: Results of the Orpund municipality. Canton of Bern, accessed on March 22, 2016
↑ http://svp-orpund.ch
↑ Home - SP Plus Orpund. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .

[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] Staff: Community search . Population. In: Official website of the FSO. Federal Statistical Office FSO , 2015, accessed on August 27, 2017 (input from Orpund ).

[muel/ks-3] Wulf Müller / Andres Kristol: Orpund BE (Nidau) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community 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. 685f.

[4] Elections 2015: Results of the Orpund municipality. Canton of Bern, accessed on March 22, 2016

[5] ttp://svp-orpund.ch

[6] Home - SP Plus Orpund. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .