Wyssachen

Wyssachen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Oberaargau
BFS no. :	0960
Postal code :	4954
UN / LOCODE :	CH WSC
Coordinates :	629 743  /  214 282 coordinates: 47 ° 4 '44 "  N , 7 ° 49' 49"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and twenty-nine thousand seven hundred forty-three  /  two hundred fourteen thousand two hundred and eighty-two
Height :	707  m above sea level M.
Height range :	658-1023 m above sea level M.
Area :	11.69  km²
Residents:	1138 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	97 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.wyssachen.ch
Wyssachen village center
Location of the municipality

Wyssachen ( [ˈʋiːˌsaxən] ; officially called Wyssachengraben until 1908 ) is a political municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

geography

Wyssachen is about 20 km south of Langenthal on the stream of the same name in a side valley of the Langete . The neighboring communities of Wyssachen are Huttwil in the north, Eriswil in the east, Sumiswald in the south and Dürrenroth in the west .

Personalities

The following personalities were born in Wyssachen:

• Johann Ulrich Heiniger (born February 8, 1808; † May 28, 1892 in Bern), later the Bern city missionary
• Sam Jaun (born September 30, 1935 - † February 9, 2018 in Bern), crime writer

photos

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  Reformed Churches of Wyssachen

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  Inside view of the church

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  Entrance to the village, coming from the Fritzenfluh

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  school

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  Reformed parish hall

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  village street

See also

• List of cultural assets in Wyssachen

Web links

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

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