Rohrbach BE

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

Rohrbach
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Oberaargau
BFS no. :	0338
Postal code :	4938
Coordinates :	628 468  /  220 792 coordinates: 47 ° 8 '15 "  N , 7 ° 48' 50"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred twenty-eight thousand four hundred sixty-eight  /  220,792
Height :	584  m above sea level M.
Height range :	568–728 m above sea level M.
Area :	4.08  km²
Residents:	1480 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	363 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.rohrbach-be.ch
Rohrbach BE
Location of the municipality

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

Under the name there is a community of residents , an evangelical-reformed parish and a civil parish .

geography

Rohrbach is located in Oberaargau in the Swiss plateau on the Langete . The neighboring communities are Auswil , Huttwil , Rohrbachgraben and Madiswil .

history

Aerial photo from 400 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1922)

Rohrbach is one of the oldest villages in the canton of Bern. Rohrbach - or Rorpah back then - was first mentioned in a document in 795. At that time, the Kelnhof Rohrbach belonged to the St. Gallen Abbey . In the late Middle Ages the rule belonged to the local barons of Rüti until 1309, whose representative Dietrich von Rüti, who was involved in the regicide of Albrecht I in 1308 , was declared to have lost his offices and fiefs by the Dukes of Austria: the st. Gallic Bailiwick and the Meieramt over the Hof zu Rohrbach and its Trachselwald Castle . The reign of Rohrbach subsequently came to the Barons of Signau.

Baron Ulrich III. von Signau pledged the estate together with his son Matthias for 700 Florin Gulden to Count Hartmann III. von Kyburg and his brothers. When Ulrich III. died after 1362, his son Matthias became a pawnman opposite the Count House Neu-Kyburg. Due to financial difficulties, the counts wanted to sell the Rohrbach pledge, for which Matthias von Signau gave his consent within nine years on December 7, 1370 in Basel, subject to a right of redemption. The sale then took place on February 2, 1371 for the same pledge sum - 700 Florin Gulden - to Matthias von Signau's cousin, Baron Berchtold I from the family of the Barons von Grünenberg . The rule includes the village and the office with people, property, high and low courts, twing and ban , wood and field. Rohrbach proved to be an important link between Madiswil and the small town of Huttwil, which later became Grünberg again for his family . After Berchtold I died soon afterwards, his brother Johann II the Grimme von Grünenberg inherited the Rohrbach pledge. Under his rule, the nine-year redemption right of the barons of Signau lapsed, so that from around 1380 Rohrbach can be regarded as Grünberg property. The high and low courts of Eriswil also belonged to the Rohrbach rule .

After the death of Johann II the Grimmen before February 3, 1384, his son of the same name, Johann III. the Grimme ruled Rohrbach, which remained his property until his death in 1429. About his daughter Magdalena, the village came to his son Hermann von Eptingen was him as an Austrian partisans in the Old Zurich War of Bern but busy. In 1449 the city of Bern gave Rohrbach back to Magdalena von Grünenberg († before November 21, 1468). Their heirs, Hans Rudolf von Luternau and his wife Barbara von Mülinen, sold Rohrbach to Bern in 1504. The place retained special rights such as its own court district and its own mass.

The Kelnhof of the St. Gallen monastery remained in existence all the time. In 1414 Baron Thomas von Falkenstein acquired it together with the rest of the property of the St. Gallen monastery.

coat of arms

Blazon

In red a gold star on a green six-mountain (1: 2: 3 mountains)

The green Sechsberg is a reference to the coat of arms of the Barons von Grünenberg.

politics

The mayor is Elisabeth Spichiger ( SVP , as of 2014).

economy

The village of Rohrbach is characterized by craft and commercial businesses. Larger industrial companies are Lanz-Anliker AG, Zaugg AG and Rüfenacht AG.

Agriculture

Even if the number of farms in operation has declined in recent years and Rohrbach can no longer be called a farming village, the proud farms are still a defining element of the village.

traffic

Rohrbach is on the main road Huttwil - Langenthal . Side roads lead to Auswil and Rohrbachgraben . The BLS AG ensures the connection to the rail network with the line Huttwil - Langenthal .

education

The following educational institutions are in Rohrbach:

• 2 kindergartens
• Primary school
• secondary school
• 1 small classes

Personalities

• Dominique Aegerter (* 1990), motorcycle racer
• Moritz Leuenberger (* 1946), lawyer and politician
• Urs Mannhart (* 1975), writer

photos

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  reformed Church

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  Interior of the church

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  Rohrbach station (threshold height: 586.73 m above sea level)

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  Playground in the village center

See also

• List of cultural assets in Rohrbach

literature

• Peter Eggenberger , Monique Rast Cotting, Susi Ulrich-Bochsler: Rohrbach, Reformed parish church. Results of the archaeological excavations of 1982 . In: Series of publications by the Education Department of the Canton of Bern . Staatlicher Lehrmittelverlag, Bern 1988, ISBN 3-258-04103-2 .
• Max Jufer (Red.): The Aarwangen district and its communities . Ed .: District of Aarwangen and the 25 municipalities. Merkur Druck AG, Langenthal 1991, ISBN 3-907012-10-0 .
• Rohrbach municipality (ed.): Rohrbach then and now . Photo book for the 1200th anniversary of the Rohrbach community. 1995.

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Rohrbach
• Anne-Marie Dubler : Rohrbach. 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. ↑ Max Jufer: The noble families of Oberaargau . In: Yearbook of the Oberaargau . tape 6 . Merkur Druck AG, Langenthal 1963, p. 39–61 ( unibe.ch [PDF]). P. 40, footnote 5.