Scold

This article is about the Swiss municipality in the canton of Bern. The village in the canton of Jura see Seleute , for reproof see scolding . For the German politician, see Carl-Edzard Schelten-Peterssen .

Scold
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Bernese Jura
BFS no. :	0708
Postal code :	2827
Coordinates :	608 628  /  242966 coordinates: 47 ° 20 '15 "  N , 7 ° 33' 10"  O ; CH1903:  608,628  /  242966
Height :	746  m above sea level M.
Height range :	700–1217 m above sea level M.
Area :	5.56  km²
Residents:	36 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	6 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.schelten.ch
Scolding pass
Location of the municipality

Schelten is a municipality in the Bernese Jura administrative district in the Swiss canton of Bern . Until 1914 the municipality was officially called La Scheulte .

Schelten was the fourth smallest municipality in Switzerland in 2016 and, at the time, had a school with five students, but neither a cell phone antenna nor a sewage treatment plant .

Historical aerial photo from 2200 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1919

geography

Schelten lies at 746  m above sea level. M. 15 kilometers east-northeast of the place Moutier (air line). Schelten is the northernmost municipality in the canton of Bern and at the same time the easternmost municipality of both the former Moutier district and the current administrative district of Bernese Jura . The scattered settlement lies in the narrow valley of the Scheltenbach ( La Scheulte in French ), a right tributary of the Birs , in the chain Jura .

The area of ​​the 5.6 square kilometer municipal area comprises a section of the valley in the headwaters of the Scheltenbach. The area has a strong relief and has several small side valleys. In the north, Schelten extends to the Dürrenberg ( 1031  m above sea level ), in the northeast to the slope of the Hohe Winde . To the south, the municipality extends over the Weierhubel ( 979  m above sea level ) to the Jura heights of Schönenberg ( 1192  m above sea level ) and Stierenberg (at 1220  m above sea level, the highest point of Schelten). In 1997, 2% of the municipal area was settled, 61% forest and woodland, 36% agriculture, and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

The community of Schelten consists of the hamlets of Scheltenmühle ( 746  m above sea level ) on the Scheltenbach and Lochhaus ( 782  m above sea level ) in a southern side valley, as well as a few individual farms. A total of 13 houses are counted. Schelten is only connected to the rest of the canton of Bern ( Seehof municipality ) at one point . Neighboring communities of Schelten are Mervelier and Vermes in the canton of Jura and Aedermannsdorf and Beinwil in the canton of Solothurn .

population

With 36 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) Schelten is one of the smallest communities in the Bernese Jura . Of the residents, 82.7 percent are German-speaking and 15.4 percent French-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Schelten was 82 inhabitants in 1850 and 123 in 1880. After that, a marked decrease of 60 percent to 49 people was registered by 1960. Since then, only minor fluctuations have been recorded.

politics

The voting shares of the parties at the 2015 National Council election were: SVP 58.8%, GPS 21.9%, SP 17.4%, EVP 0.5%, FDP 0.0%, CVP 0.0%, BDP 0.0 %, glp 0.0%.

According to an overview by the Federal Statistical Office, in federal votes, the Schelten voters vote differently than the majority of Swiss people more often than everyone else.

economy

Schelten lives from agriculture , with dairy farming and cattle breeding predominating.

The municipality's annual budget is around 200,000 francs.

traffic

The community is located far away from the larger thoroughfares on the cantonal road that leads from Delsberg (JU) through Val Terbi and over the Scheltenpass to Balsthal (SO). Schelten is not connected to the public transport network. The next town with a connection to a public bus network is the Jura community of Mervelier (approx. Five kilometers west of Schelten).

history

Schelten was subject to the Moutier-Grandval Provost until the end of the 18th century . From 1797 to 1815 Schelten belonged to France and was initially part of the Mont-Terrible department , which was connected to the Haut-Rhin department in 1800 . As a result of the decision of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the place came to the canton of Bern, which assigned it to the Moutier district.

The German-speaking scolding decided in the Jurisdiction to remain with the Canton of Bern , while the French-speaking communities of Val Terbi transferred to the Delémont district in 1976 . Since then, Schelten can only be reached via the territory of other cantons, with the exception of the “Viergemeindenpunkt”. This made Schelten a functional exclave of the Canton of Bern. Schelten belongs to the parish of Mervelier .

Attractions

Saint Anthony Chapel

The St. Antonius chapel, which was built in 1860, is located on the Scheltenpassstrasse. In the hamlets there are some characteristic farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Web links

Commons : Scold  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the community of Schelten
• François Wisard: Scolding. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 24, 2014 .

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. ↑ ^{a b c} Andreas Heller: Eternal losers . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (ed.): NZZ Folio . No. 304 . Zurich November 2016, p. 60-67 .
3. ↑ Scold. In: www.schelten.ch. Retrieved November 20, 2016 . 
4. ^ Results of the community of Schelten. State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern, October 18, 2015, accessed on April 19, 2016 .