Tüscherz-Alfermée

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Bern (BE)

Administrative district :

Biel / Bienne

Residential municipality :

Twann-Tüscherz

Postal code :

2512

former BFS no. :

0752

Coordinates :

581 327 / 217 997 coordinates: 47 ° 6 '46 " N , 7 ° 11' 33" O ; CH1903: 581 327 / two hundred seventeen thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven

Height :

444 m above sea level M.

Area :

3.3 km²

Residents:

307 (December 31, 2008)

Population density :

93 inhabitants per km²

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2010

The village of Alfermée on Lake Biel (Switzerland), on the right the old village center, on the left the newer single-family housing estate

Tüscherz-Alfermée ( French Daucher-Alfermée or Dauché-Alfermée ) was a municipality in the district of Nidau in the Swiss canton of Bern until December 31, 2009 . On January 1, 2010, the municipality merged with the Twann community to form Twann-Tüscherz .

In addition to the resident community, there is an Evangelical Reformed church community (together with Twann ) and a civic community under the same name . Tüscherz-Alfermée is 87.2% a German-speaking community; 9.5% are French-speaking.

geography

Tüscherz-Alfermée is located in the Bernese Seeland on the north shore of Lake Biel . The neighboring communities starting from the north and clockwise are Evilard , Biel / Bienne , Twann and Plateau de Diesse .

traffic

The village has a train station on the Biel – Neuchâtel line of the SBB . Here, on October 2, 1942, a head-on collision between a passenger and a freight train occurred because the engine driver had missed a signal indicating "stop" . 11 people died.

There is also a ship landing site for the ships of the BSG .

Attractions

literature

Anne-Marie Dubler : Tüscherz-Alfermée. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Tüscherz-Alfermée, pp. 251–262, in: Andres Moser, Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Bern, Volume III: The district of Nidau 2nd part, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-906131-80-7 ( PDF ; 6.2 MB) .

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