Zauggenried

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Zauggenried
Coat of arms of Zauggenried
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton BernCanton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district : Bern-Mittellandw
Residential municipality : Fraubrunneni2
Postal code : 3309
former BFS no. : 0555
Coordinates : 607 742  /  213 565 coordinates: 47 ° 4 '23 "  N , 7 ° 32' 26"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and seven thousand seven hundred forty-two  /  213,565
Height : 500  m above sea level M.
Area : 3.7  km²
Residents: 323 (December 31, 2007)
Population density : 87 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.fraubrunnen.ch
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Zauggenried (Switzerland)
Zauggenried
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2014

Zauggenried [ˌtsaʊkənˈriːd] was until December 31, 2013 a political municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district of the canton of Bern in Switzerland . On January 1, 2014, Zauggenried merged with the municipalities of Büren zum Hof , Etzelkofen , Grafenried , Limpach , Mülchi and Schalunen to form the municipality of Fraubrunnen .

geography

Zauggenried lies at 500  m above sea level. M. , seven kilometers west of Burgdorf and 15 kilometers north-northeast of the canton capital Bern (as the crow flies). The clustered village extends slightly higher on the western edge of the alluvial plain of the Emme , on the Urtenen in the Fraubrunnenmoos, in the Swiss plateau .

The area of ​​the community area of ​​3.7 km² comprised a section of the central Bernese plateau with only very slight differences in relief. The area is traversed by the canalized and straightened Urtenen from south to north. At Zauggenried, part of the Urtenen is diverted to Fraubrunnen through the Mülibach canal . The north-eastern part of the municipality lies on the level of the southern Fraubrunnenmoos and extends to the edge of the Fraubrunnen-Rüdtligen forest . To the south-west, the community floor extended over the plateau of the Mittlerfeld ( 515  m above sea level ) to the edge of the Rapperswil plateau. On the forest hill Loon is 545  m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Zauggenried. In 1997, 6% of the municipal area was in settlements, 24% in forests and woodlands, 69% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Various individual farms belong to Zauggenried. Until December 31, 2013 , neighboring communities of Zauggenried were Fraubrunnen , Kernenried , Münchringen , Jegenstorf and Grafenried .

population

With 323 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2007), Zauggenried was one of the small communities in the canton of Bern. 99.0% of the residents speak German, 0.3% French and 0.3% speak Portuguese (as of 2000). The population of Zauggenried was 377 in 1850 and 355 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population decreased slightly to 288 people by 1980. Since then, a slight population increase has been recorded again.

politics

The municipal council consisted of five members (two women and three men, as of October 2006), the political majority of whom belonged to or were closely related to the SVP . The community meeting was the mayor passed. As the highest community body , it usually decided twice a year about the business to which it was entitled. The municipality clerk and the financial administrator worked part-time and were responsible for the administration and finance of the municipality.

The voting shares of the parties in the 2011 National Council elections were: BDP 32.5%, SVP 30.6%, GPS 11.4%, SP 11.3%, glp 5.8%, FDP 2.4%, EPP 2.1 %, CVP 0.4%, EDU 0.4%.

School system

Already in the 17th century there was a joint school with the neighboring community of Kernenried . Today the lower primary classes are taught in the association of the two communities in their own school buildings. There is also a kindergarten in Kernenried for pre-school children . Zauggenried is also connected to the Fraubrunnen Upper School Center. The pupils in the 7th to 9th school year therefore complete the lessons in Fraubrunnen, at primary or secondary level .

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Zauggenried was a village dominated by agriculture . Even today arable farming , fruit growing , cattle breeding 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, including in a construction company and in a company for satellite technology. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the larger towns in the area and in the agglomeration of Bern.

traffic

The place is located away from the larger through axes on a connecting road from Fraubrunnen to Burgdorf . The nearest connection to the A1 motorway ( Bern - Zurich ) is around 4 km from the town center. Zauggenried is connected to the public transport network by a bus route from Fraubrunnen to Burgdorf .

history

In Roman times , an army road is said to have led from Burgdorf over the Ried into the Limpachtal . Later coin finds in the municipality confirm that the Romans also stayed here or passed through.

The place was first mentioned in a document in 867 under the name Riete ; Zouggenriet has been handed down from 1380 . The place name goes back to the Old High German word riod (clearing). The surname Zaugg was added to distinguish it from other towns with the same name .

Zauggenried has been in the possession of the Counts of Kyburg since the Middle Ages , but in the 14th century it became the property of the Cistercian monastery of Fraubrunnen . From 1406 the village was under Bernese sovereignty and in 1528, after the secularization of the Fraubrunnen Abbey, it was assigned to the Fraubrunnen Landvogtei in the Zollikofen Regional Court . Country Weibel Bendicht Niklaus von Zauggenried led as commander on March 5, 1798 Landwehr Battalion at the Battle of Fraubrunnen against the Napoleonic troops - he found on the battlefield death. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Zauggenried belonged to the Zollikofen district during the Helvetic Republic and from 1803 to the Fraubrunnen Oberamt, which was given the status of an administrative district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831.

Attractions

With its typical farmhouses in the Bernese country style from the 18th and 19th centuries and the associated, original granaries from the 17th and 18th centuries, Zauggenried has preserved a place of regional importance. The village does not have its own church, it belongs to the Grafenried-Fraubrunnen parish.

Sons of the place

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.wahlarchiv.sites.be.ch/wahlen2011/target/NAWAInternetAction.do@method=read&sprache=d&typ=21&gem=555.html accessed on July 11, 2012
  2. ↑ Grand Council resolution regarding the change of parish of the members of the Zauggenried parish from the Jegenstorf-Urtenen parish to the Grafenried-Fraubrunnen parish. (PDF; 72 kB) January 19, 2011, accessed on January 4, 2012.