Wanzwil

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Wanzwil
Wanzwil coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton BernCanton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district : Oberaargauw
Residential municipality : Heimenhauseni2
Postal code : 3372
former BFS no. : 0994
Coordinates : 619 280  /  227704 coordinates: 47 ° 12 '0 "  N , 7 ° 41' 35"  O ; CH1903:  619.28 thousand  /  227704
Height : 455  m above sea level M.
Area : 0.6  km²
Residents: 208 (December 31, 2007)
Population density : 347 inhabitants per km²
Wanzwil

Wanzwil

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Wanzwil (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1st, 2009

Wanzwil is a former political municipality in the district of Wangen in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

On January 1, 2009, the merger of Wanzwil with Röthenbach near Herzogenbuchsee and Heimenhausen to form the new community of Heimenhausen became legally binding.

geography

Wanzwil is 455  m above sea level. M. , two kilometers northwest of Herzogenbuchsee and twelve kilometers east of the city of Solothurn (as the crow flies). The small street village extends on the plain west of the Önz , on the northeastern edge of the height of the Önzberg , in Oberaargau .

The area of ​​just 0.6 km² covers a small section of the northern Bernese Mittelland . The main part of the area is occupied by a gravel plain, in which the stream Önz has dug a valley around 10 m deep and up to 200 m wide. The edge of the valley east of the Önz also forms the eastern border. To the southwest, the ground extends to the forest heights of the Önzberg , on which at 495  m above sea level. M. the highest point of Wanzwil is reached. In 1997, 14% of the area was in settlements, 27% in forests and woodlands and 59% in agriculture.

Neighboring communities of Wanzwil were Herzogenbuchsee , Niederönz , Röthenbach near Herzogenbuchsee and Heimenhausen .

population

With 208 inhabitants (at the end of 2007), Wanzwil was one of the smaller communities in the canton of Bern. Of the residents, 86.3% speak German, 5.8% speak Italian and 2.9% speak Albanian (as of 2000). The population of Wanzwil was 103 in 1850 and 137 in 1900. In the 1960s in particular, the population rose significantly from 146 to 230 people. Since 1970 the population has always fluctuated between 220 and 260 people.

Water supply

The water supply is the responsibility of the municipal association of water supply on the lower Oenz (WVOe). Like many other water suppliers, the WVOe has to contend with chlorothalonil metabolites . Water samples from 2019 showed that the applicable maximum values ​​were exceeded in four of the WVOe's drinking water catchments. As a result of the heat and drought in 2019 , customers were asked in July of the same year to limit their water consumption .

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Wanzwil was a village dominated by agriculture . Even today, have agriculture and livestock an important role in the employment structure of the population. Some other jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. A gravel pit is being exploited near Wanzwil. The wastewater treatment plant for the communities in the Herzogenbuchsee region is located in the Önztal. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many employees are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Langenthal - Herzogenbuchsee region and in the Solothurn area .

traffic

The area is very well developed in terms of traffic. It is located on the main road from Wangen an der Aare to Herzogenbuchsee . The nearest connection to the A1 motorway (Bern-Zurich) is around 7 km from the town center. Wanzwil is connected to the public transport network by a bus route from Herzogenbuchsee to Wangen an der Aare and a BSU route from Solothurn to Herzogenbuchsee. The municipality is crossed by the new Mattstetten – Rothrist line , opened on December 12, 2004 (called the Bahn2000 line since 2019); This is also where the crossing-free junction of the railway line to Solothurn is located . This line was expanded as part of Bahn 2000 and relocated to a tunnel near Wanzwil.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1264 under the name Wanzewile . The names Wanzwile (1300), Wantzwile (1356), Wanczwil (1385) and Wantzwil (1407) appeared later . The place name goes back to the Old High German personal name Wanzo and therefore means at the Wanzo homestead .

Since the Middle Ages Wanzwil was under the Kyburg manorial Herzogenbuchsee and shared their fate. In 1406 the village came under the rule of Bern and was assigned to the Landvogtei Wangen and in it the court place Herzogenbuchsee. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Wanzwil belonged to the district of Wangen during the Helvetic period and from 1803 to the Oberamt Wangen, which received the status of an official district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831.

In 1866, the Wanzwil weekly society was set up in the village, a gathering of farmers from the area to draw the general public's attention to the poor state of agriculture at that time. As a direct result, the first agricultural training school in Switzerland was founded in Wanzwil in 1869. Wanzwil does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish Herzogenbuchsee.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ coverage area. Oenz water supply, accessed on February 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Results of chlorothalonil metabolites above 0.1 micrograms / liter. (PDF) Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Cantonal laboratory: Chlorothalonil metabolites in drinking water: Canton publishes the measured values. Canton of Bern , February 6, 2020, accessed on February 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Information on water consumption as a result of the persistent drought. (PDF) Oenz water supply, July 2019, accessed on February 7, 2020 . Available under News .