Wangenried

Wangenried
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Oberaargau
BFS no. :	0993
Postal code :	3374
Coordinates :	616 306  /  229857 coordinates: 47 ° 13 '10 "  N , 7 ° 39' 14"  O ; CH1903:  616 306  /  229857
Height :	473  m above sea level M.
Height range :	420–501 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.91  km²
Residents:	425 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	146 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.wangenried.ch
Location of the municipality

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

geography

Aerial photo from 2000 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1923)

Wangenried lies at 473  m above sea level. M. , 2 km south of the district capital Wangen an der Aare and 9 km east of the city of Solothurn (straight line). The street row village extends on a slope inclined to the northwest, on the southern edge of the Aareniederung , in Oberaargau .

The area of ​​the 2.9 km² municipal area comprises a slightly relief section of the northern Bernese Plateau . The main part of the area is taken up by the height of Wangenried, a ground moraine wall of the Ice Age Rhone glacier . On the Rüti is 495  m above sea level. M. reached the highest point in the community. In the north this height with the Chnubel is separated from the Gensberg (on Wangener Boden) by a valley basin . To the east, the municipality reaches as far as the Langimoos , to the south into the Ischlag forest area , and to the west a small valley forms the boundary against the plateau of the Deitinger Forest . A small portion of the municipal ban in the northwest with the Schwerzi corridor is on the southern edge of the flat Aare plain ( 425  m above sea level ). In 1997, 7% of the municipal area was in settlements, 24% in forests and woodlands, 68% in agriculture and around 1% was unproductive land.

Several individual farms belong to Wangenried. Neighboring communities of Wangenried are Wangen an der Aare , Walliswil bei Wangen , Heimenhausen and Inkwil in the canton of Bern and Subingen and Deitingen in the canton of Solothurn .

population

With 425 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Wangenried is one of the small communities in the canton of Bern. 97.9% of the residents speak German, 0.8% speak Italian and 0.5% speak French (as of 2000). The population of Wangenried was 415 in 1850, compared with 332 in 1900. After a slight increase in population until 1950 (381 inhabitants), the number of inhabitants has since then fluctuated between 370 and 410 people.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Wangenried was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today, arable and fruit growing as well as cattle breeding have an important place in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including a wood processing company. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many employed people are therefore commuters who work mainly in the Langenthal - Herzogenbuchsee region , in the Solothurn area and in the larger towns along the southern foot of the Jura.

traffic

The community is very well developed in terms of transport. It is located on the main road from Wangen an der Aare to Herzogenbuchsee , but has a local bypass. The closest connection to the A1 motorway (Bern-Zurich) is around 3 km from the town center. Wangenried is connected to the public transport network by a bus line that runs from Herzogenbuchsee to Wangen an der Aare.

history

The place was first mentioned in documents in 1407 under the name Ried . Later the names Wangenried (1442) and Waggenried (1784) appeared. The place name goes back to the Old High German word riod (clearing).

Since the Middle Ages Wangenried belonged to the provost of Wangen and was under the sovereignty of the Kyburger . In 1406 the village came under the rule of the city ​​of Bern and was subsequently assigned to the Landvogtei Wangen. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Wangenried 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 Wangenried

The village has preserved numerous characteristic farmhouses of the Bernese country style from the 18th and 19th centuries. Wangenried does not have its own church; it belongs to the parish of Wangen.

Personalities

• Karl Rikli (1791–1843), Protestant clergyman and seminar director at the teachers' seminar in Münchenbuchsee

Web links

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

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