Port BE

BE is the abbreviation for the Canton of Bern in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Port .

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State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Biel / Bienne
BFS no. :	0745
Postal code :	2562
Coordinates :	585 686  /  218 426 coordinates: 47 ° 7 '0'  N , 7 ° 15 '0 "  O ; CH1903:  585 686  /  two hundred and eighteen thousand four hundred and twenty-six
Height :	448  m above sea level M.
Height range :	426–608 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.46  km²
Residents:	3695 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1502 inhabitants per km²
Mayor :	Beat Mühlethaler ( SVP )
Website:	www.port.ch
Port BE
Location of the municipality

Port (in local dialect [ ˈpoːɾt ]) is a municipality in the Biel / Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland . The political municipality, also known as the inhabitant municipality, consists only of the village of the same name, Port. With the same boundaries there is also the civic community of Port. The community belongs to the agglomeration of the bilingual city of Biel / Bienne .

history

Regulating weir with lock

The village, which was built around a late Roman port ( lat. Portum ), was located on the Zihl , which was merged with the Nidau-Büren Canal during the first correction of the Jura waters . The church was first mentioned in a document in 1228.

The Port Regulier weir has been controlling the water flow from Lake Biel since 1939 .

In 1951 the municipality of Port and the city of Biel u. a. merge due to settlement development and economic integration. The Grand Council of the Canton of Bern rejected this merger request, even though the merger was wanted by an absolute majority of both populations and both communities. This represented the second rejection of a desired merger request in the agglomeration of Biel after 1920. Behind both cases was the fear of the Bern parliament that the Biel region could, especially since the industry in the Biel region expanded considerably and the population grew rapidly Canton Bern become too important.

In 2013, the remains of an old Roman estate with a spacious and luxuriously furnished villa were found at the crossing Weiherweg / Hüeblistrasse .

population

83.85% of Port is a German-speaking community. 11% are French-speaking.

politics

The voting shares of the parties on the occasion of the National Council elections in 2015 were: SVP 32.4%, SP 19.7%, FDP 14.6%, BDP 13.7%, GPS 6.0%, glp 5.0%, EPP 3.8 %, CVP 1.7%, EDU 1.1%, pirates 0.8%.

See also

• List of cultural assets in Port

Web links

Commons : Port BE  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Municipality of Port
• Felix Müller, Anne-Marie Dubler : Port. 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. ↑ Wulf Müller / Andres Kristol: Port 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. 712.
3. ↑ Elections 2015: Results of the municipality of Port. Canton of Bern, accessed on March 22, 2016