Zimmerwald

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Zimmerwald
Zimmerwald coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton BernCanton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district : Bern-Mittellandw
Residential municipality : Forest BEi2 w1
Postal code : 3086 Zimmerwald
Coordinates : 602527  /  192 286 coordinates: 46 ° 52 '54 "  N , 7 ° 28' 18"  O ; CH1903:  602527  /  one hundred and ninety-two thousand two hundred eighty-six
Height : 840  m above sea level M.
Zimmerwald Church, Belpberg and Seven Stallions

Zimmerwald Church, Belpberg and Seven Stallions
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Zimmerwald (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2004

Zimmerwald is a village in the municipality of Wald in the canton of Bern , Switzerland . Until December 31, 2003, Zimmerwald was an independent municipality . Until 1902 it was officially called Obermuhlern and Zimmerwald .

The name is an original field or forest name that has been transferred to a settlement secondarily. It is a combination of the Old High German word zimbar 'timber' and forest 'forest', so it once referred to a forest that was used as a supplier of timber.

The coat of arms shows three green fir trees on a green three-mountain in front of a silver background.

geography

Zimmerwald is located on the Längenberg , a hill near the city of Bern in the middle of the Bernese Mittelland .

On December 31, 2002 the community had 870 inhabitants.

history

Aerial photo from the north-west (1952)

Zimmerwald was settled in a later phase by Alemannic population groups. The first documentary mention took place in 1296. In 1996 Zimmerwald celebrated its 700th anniversary.

The rule of Obermuhlern, in which Zimmerwald was located, belonged to the Bernese city court from the Reformation until 1798. The Zimmerwald estate with the Schlössli was successively owned by the Bernese families von Werdt , Jenner , Steck and Wyttenbach .

The civil families from Zimmerwald are the Guggisberg and Streit.

Zimmerwald entered the annals of world history through the Zimmerwald Manifesto in 1915. In September 1915, the leading figures of socialists from all over Europe, including Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , met in secret for the so-called Zimmerwald Conference , which was supposed to split the international labor movement into a democratic-social wing and a revolutionary-communist wing. The initiator of the meeting was the editor-in-chief of the Berner Tagwacht and later social democratic Bernese government councilor Robert Grimm .

On January 1, 2004 Zimmerwald merged with the Englisberg community to form the Wald community.

Attractions

Impressions

people

Trivia

literature

  • Fritz Brönnimann: 700 years of Zimmerwald. Pictures from the history of an old village community. Zimmerwald 1996.
  • Fritz Brönnimann: How the Zimmerwald Church got its first organ. The complete original report by schoolmaster Blatter from 1711. Zimmerwald 1990.
  • Anne-Marie Dubler : Zimmerwald. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Werner Steiner: The church of Zimmerwald. Schwarzenburg 1987.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 988.
  2. ↑ Info. In: schneefestival.ch. Retrieved September 19, 2012 .