St. Stephan BE

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St. Stephan
Coat of arms of St. Stephen
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton BernCanton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district : Obersimmental-Saanenw
BFS no. : 0793i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 3772 St. Stephan
3773 Matten
Coordinates : 595 754  /  149856 coordinates: 46 ° 30 '0 "  N , 7 ° 23' 0"  O ; CH1903:  595,754  /  149856
Height : 1008  m above sea level M.
Height range : 949–2762 m above sea level M.
Area : 60.89  km²
Residents: 1339 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 22 inhabitants per km²
Mayor : Albin Buchs ( SVP )
Website: www.ststephan.ch
St. Stephan

St. Stephan

Location of the municipality
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St. Stephan is a municipality in the Obersimmental-Saanen administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

geography

St. Stephan is located in the Bernese Oberland in the Upper Simmental between Zweisimmen and the Lenk . The community extends to the Albristhorn ( 2762  m above sea level ). The neighboring communities starting from the north in a clockwise direction are Zweisimmen, Diemtigen , Adelboden , Lenk and Saanen .

The community consists of the Bäuerten Ried , Häuser , Grodey , Matten , Fermel , Obersteg and Zu Hähligen . There is no place called St. Stephan.

politics

St. Stephan is a community of residents without a civil parish . In addition, there is an evangelical reformed parish . Albin Buchs has been the community president of the community since January 1, 2014 (as of January 2018).

The voting shares of the parties on the occasion of the 2015 National Council election were: SVP 69.0%, EDU 8.8%, BDP 5.1%, FDP 4.1%, SP 4.0%, glp 3.2%, GPS 2.2 %, EVP 1.5%, CVP 0.3%.

Surname

The name of the parish goes back to Saint Stephen, patron of the parish church. Legend has it that a soldier of the Theban Legion named Stephanus hid in the Albristgraben above the Färmeltal and lived there as a hermit.

Airfield

Papyrus Hunter

In the valley floor is the former St. Stephan airfield with hard surface. A maintenance company takes care of the maintenance of private aircraft. The airfield was built for the Swiss Air Force ; today it is mainly used for civilian purposes. Among other things by a private hunter club, which owns a Hawker Hunter of the former Fliegerstaffel 15, which has been transformed into a papyrus hunter.

A hunter festival has been taking place on the airfield since 2000.

Traditional house in St. Stephan
The hamlet of Ried with a church

Attractions

Personalities

literature

  • Manfred Lempen, Elisabeth Bergmann, Peter Bratschi: In the Färmeltal . Zweisimmen 2017. ISBN 978-3-9522412-8-8 .

Web links

Commons : St. Stephan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ^ Results of the parish of St. Stephan. State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern, October 18, 2015, accessed on October 30, 2016 .
  3. In the Färmeltal . M. Lempen, E. Bergmann, P. Bratschi, Zweisimmen 2017, p. 401.