Wiggiswil

Wiggiswil
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Bern-Mittelland
BFS no. :	0553
Postal code :	3053
Coordinates :	602.3 thousand  /  208743 coordinates: 47 ° 1 '47 "  N , 7 ° 28' 8"  O ; CH1903:  602 300  /  208743
Height :	554  m above sea level M.
Height range :	520-584 m above sea level M.
Area :	1.44  km²
Residents:	103 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	73 inhabitants per km²
Location of the municipality

Wiggiswil [ˌʋɪkisˈʋiːl] is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

geography

Wiggiswil lies at 554  m above sea level. M. , 9 km north of the canton capital Bern (linear distance). The small village extends a scenic location on the southern edge of Rapperswil plateau, some 30 meters above the valley of the Moss Lake Valley, the Swiss Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the 1.4 km² large municipal area covers a section of the central Bernese plateau. In the south, the municipal ban has a share in the lowlands of the Moosseetal with the Moospinte and the Urten Canal . The protected nature reserve Kleine Moossee lies entirely within the municipality. To the north of this valley floor, the municipality floor extends over a 40 m high steep slope onto the open high plateau of Wiggiswil, which belongs to the south-eastern part of the Rapperswil plateau. The highest elevations of Wiggiswil are reached on the Aspli ( 581  m above sea level ) and on the forest height of the Rädisriedes ( 584  m above sea level ); the eastern boundary runs along the Wideholz . In 1997, 11% of the municipal area was in settlements, 12% in forests and woodlands, 75% in agriculture and a little more than 2% was unproductive land.

Neighboring communities of Wiggiswil are Jegenstorf , Urtenen-Schönbühl , Moosseedorf , Münchenbuchsee and Deisswil near Münchenbuchsee .

population

With 103 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Wiggiswil is one of the smallest communities in the canton of Bern. 91.8% of the residents speak German, 3.1% speak Portuguese and 2.1% speak Polish (as of 2000). The population of Wiggiswil was 117 in 1850 and 139 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population always fluctuated between 100 and 130 people, with a slightly decreasing trend being noted, especially in the last few decades.

politics

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The voting shares of the parties in the 2015 National Council elections were: SVP 58.0%, BDP 12.7%, SP 11.2%, EPP 5.2%, GPS 4.4%, FDP 3.0%, Pirates 3.1 %, CVP 1.0%.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Wiggiswil was a village dominated by agriculture . Even today, arable farming , fruit growing and dairy farming have an important place in the income structure of the population. Some other jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. Some employees are commuters who work mainly in Münchenbuchsee and in the Bern agglomeration .

traffic

The community is easily accessible from the main road that connects Schönbühl with Schüpfen . The next connection to the A6 motorway (Bern-Biel), which crosses the municipality, is around 4 km from the town center. Wiggiswil has no connection to the public transport network.

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1219 under the name Wigerswile . The names Wikeswile (1264), Wigeswile (1268), Wicheswile (1278) and Wiggiswile (1318) appeared later . The place name probably goes back to the Old High German personal name Widger and therefore means Widger's homestead .

Wiggiswil has been under the sovereignty of the Counts of Kyburg since the Middle Ages . In the 13th century the manor came to the Johanniter Commandery in Münchenbuchsee. Since 1406, sovereignty over the area near Bern was incumbent. After the Commandery had been secularized in 1528, Wiggiswil was assigned to the Landvogtei Münchenbuchsee in the Zollikofen district court .

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village belonged to the Zollikofen district during the Helvetic Republic and from 1803 to the Fraubrunnen Oberamt, which received the status of an official district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831. The villages of Wiggiswil and Deisswil near Münchenbuchsee , which had formed a common school community since 1802 , were also united on a political level in 1832. In 1847, however, another separation followed. The cantonal authorities planned a merger again for 1915, but this failed due to resistance from the two communities. Valuable cultivated land was won through the drainage and amelioration of the Moosseetal from 1917 to 1920 and from 1971 to 1984. Today Wiggiswil and Deisswil near Münchenbuchsee have a joint municipal administration and work closely with the large neighboring town of Münchenbuchsee.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Wiggiswil

With its numerous characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries of the Bernese country style, Wiggiswil has a place worth protecting and of national importance. The village does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Münchenbuchsee.

Web links

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

• Anne-Marie Dubler : Wiggiswil. 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
2. ↑ Elections 2015: Results of the communities Wiggiswil and Deisswil b. M. Canton of Bern, accessed on March 21, 2016