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State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Oberaargau
BFS no. :	0989
Postal code :	3367
UN / LOCODE :	CH TRG
Coordinates :	621 942  /  224749 coordinates: 47 ° 10 '24 "  N , 7 ° 43' 41"  O ; CH1903:  621942  /  224749
Height :	483  m above sea level M.
Height range :	476-589 m above sea level M.
Area :	4.55  km²
Residents:	1155 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	254 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.thoerigen.ch
Location of the municipality

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

geography

Thörigen lies at 483  m above sea level. M. , 2.5 km southeast of Herzogenbuchsee and 6 km southwest of the city of Langenthal (linear distance). The street crossing village extends in the middle of the Altachental plain on the northern edge of the Molasse hill country of the Buchsiberge, in Oberaargau .

The area of ​​the 4.5 km² municipal area covers a section of the northern Bernese Mittelland . The central part of the area is occupied by the Altachental, a 1 to 1.5 km wide plain, which is drained to the west to the Önz and once formed a melt water channel on the edge of the Ice Age Rhone glacier .

To the south, the municipality extends to the forest heights of the Buchsiberge, which are subdivided by the valley of the Stauffenbach and its eastern tributary from the Duppental . The Stauffenbach enters the Thörigen plain at Oberdorf and joins the Altache to the west of the village. To the west of the Stauffenbachtal are the forests of Mattenberg ( 570  m above sea level ) and Humberg (up to 584  m above sea level ), to the east of them the Duppentalwald and the Bützbergwald , in which at 590  m above sea level. M. the highest point of Thörigen is reached. In the north, the Altachental is flanked by the gently undulating moraine landscape near Herzogenbuchsee. The municipal ban extends over the height of Eigen ( 525  m above sea level ) to the edge of the upper forest . In 1997, 12% of the municipal area was in settlements, 36% in forests and woodlands, 51% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Thörigen includes the Oberdorf settlements ( 497  m above sea level ) at the entrance to the Stauffenbachtal between Mattenberg and Bützbergwald and Mattenberg ( 505  m above sea level ) in the Stauffenbach valley between Mattenberg and Duppentalwald as well as some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Thörigen are Thunstetten , Bleienbach , Ochlenberg , Bettenhausen and Herzogenbuchsee .

population

With 1155 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) Thörigen is one of the smaller communities in the canton of Bern. 97.9% of the residents speak German, 0.4% speak French and 0.4% speak English (as of 2000). The population of Thörigen was 718 in 1850, compared with 650 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population always fluctuated between 640 and 700 people. Since 1960 (691 inhabitants) a significant increase in population has been recorded.

economy

Up until the second half of the 20th century, Thörigen was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today, arable and fruit growing, as well as animal husbandry and forestry, have an important place in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. In Thörigen today there are companies in the construction and transport industry, the electrical industry, horticulture, wood processing, mechanical engineering, a laundry and a company for the manufacture of precision turned parts. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community through the construction of new quarters on the northern edge of the Altache plain. Many employed people are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Langenthal-Herzogenbuchsee region.

traffic

The community is very well developed in terms of transport. It is located on the main road from Burgdorf to Langenthal , which is crossed here by the state road from Herzogenbuchsee to Huttwil . Thörigen is connected to the public transport network by a bus line that runs from Herzogenbuchsee to Langenthal.

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1270 under the name Thoerinen . The names Thurinon (1295), Thorinon (1312), Töringen (1320) and Thöringen (1452) appeared later . The etymology of the place name is uncertain. Thörigen is possibly derived from the Latin personal name Taurinus .

In the Middle Ages Thörigen was under the rule of the Barons of Aarburg, who sold their rights to the city of Burgdorf in 1429 . The village was assigned to the Burgdorf-controlled Landvogtei Lotzwil , but the high level of jurisdiction was always incumbent on the Bernese Landvogt in Wangen (since 1460 also regulated by contract). After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Thörigen belonged to the district of Wangen during the Helvetic Republic and from 1803 to the Oberamt Wangen, which received the status of an official district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Thörigen

The village has preserved numerous characteristic farmhouses of the Bernese country style from the 18th and 19th centuries. The Löwen inn was built in 1816. Thörigen used to have an Ulrich chapel, but it was always part of the Herzogenbuchsee parish.

Personalities

• Nik Gygax (1957-2020), cook

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Thörigen
• Anne-Marie Dubler : Thörigen. 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

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Thörigen in summer 2009