Köniz

The " castle " in the center of Köniz

Köniz is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Köniz located southwest of the city of Bern and is with 39'375 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012), including 5'425 foreigners, the fourth- largest municipality in the canton of Bern and the twelfth largest throughout Switzerland. The municipality has an area of 51 km ². The community is considered the largest suburban community in Switzerland. Despite the high population of the community has largely because the inhabitants are distributed rather than urban village character on many individual villages.

Köniz offers many jobs. The Berner Kantonalbank and Swisscom entertain major sites in Love Field, added the Federal Office of Food Safety and Veterinary inter alia with the Institute of Virology and Immunology and the Federal Office of Public Health.

History

The current municipal area is Altsiedelland; There are several Bronze Age and Iron Age sites, Roman estates ( villae rustica ) and early medieval cemeteries. Today's Protestant parish church (formerly St Peter and St Paul ) goes back to her eldest upright members in the period around 1100. Predecessors are presumed, archaeological excavations are still lacking.

According to legend, the church is to go back to a foundation of the Burgundian king Rudolf II and his wife Bertha. The parish included not only today's municipal area, but also around 5 km from the area of the later city of Bern. In 1191 it was therefore parish church of the newly founded city until it was raised in 1276 to a separate parish.

Since time was unknown at the church one pin of the Augustinian Canons, which was given in 1226 by King Henry VII, son and deputy of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, the Teutonic Order. The Order established at the parish church, a Coming, which belonged to the Bailiwick Swabian Alsace - Burgundy, as well as an office in Bern. One of the friars served as pastor. With the emergence of the parish of Bern the local branch was raised to independent Upcoming whose head was the respective Bernese pastor.

The Coming Köniz was in 1528 on the occasion of the Bernese Reformation secularized, but in 1552 returned to the Order of pressure from the Catholic cantons again. 1729 sold the Order of the Coming of Bern. It was established a bailiwick, which continued until the downfall of the Old Berne 1798. The municipality Köniz in its present form was established 1846.

2012 Köniz was awarded the Wakker Prize by the Swiss Heritage Society (SHS ).

Policy

Executive

Mayor is Ueli Studer ( SVP).

The executive branch is a five -member council, this is since the municipal elections of 2013 Rita Haudenschild ( Green ), Katrin Sedlmayer (SP ), Thomas Brönnimann ( Green Liberal ) and Urs Wilk ( FDP).

Legislature

Municipal legislature is the 40-member municipal council whose seats are distributed as follows:

• GPS: 5
• SP: 10
• EPP: 2
• Glp: 3
• CVP: 1
• BDP: 5
• FDP: 5
• SVP: 9

1 includes Democratic Alternative / Green Party (1989 ), Green Party (1993 ), Green Free List (1993, 2001-2005 ), Green Alliance ( 1997,2001,2005 ), Green Köniz ( 2009.2013 ) and Young Green (2013 )

2 collective term for the following parties and lists: Swiss Democrats ( 1989.2001 ), Car Party (1993 ), Party for equitable tax policy ( PGSP, 2001), " SD, FPS and PGSP " (1997), "SD and PGSP " ( 2005)

The voter shares of the parties at the national elections of 2011 were: SP 24.0 %, SVP 20.4 %, 13.4 % BDP, GPS 11.9 %, FDP 9.6 %, 6.8 % glp, EPP 4.5 %, CVP 3.6 %, EDU 1.8 %.

Villages of the municipality

The community Köniz consists of numerous villages (as of 1 January 2010):

Attention: Since the BFS codes cover the municipal area completely, the towns must be included in one of the eleven areas of towns without code that were allocated such.

Attractions

• See also: List of cultural property in Köniz
• Reformed Church
• Castle
• Belts

Economy

Brewery belts (up to 1997)