Seehof, Switzerland
Seehof is a municipality in the administrative district in the canton of Bern Bernese Jura in Switzerland. In the past the Municipality of the French name Elay.
Geography
Seehof is on 752 m above sea level. M., 11 km east-northeast of the town Moutier (air line). The scattered settlement lies in the narrow valley of the brook Gabiare, in the area of the Jura mountains.
The area of 8.4 km ² large municipality area includes the headwaters of the creek Gabiare, the Seehof for scolding Bach (French Schelten ) drained. The Gabiare forms in the valley a tiny lake that gave the place its name. In the north, the area extends to the southern slope of Schoenberg (up to 1,094 m above sea level. M. ), and in a narrow corner to the northeast over the Hüsligraben up to the western slopes of the Taurus mountain (up to 1,140 meters above sea level. M. ). The southern boundary runs along the Jura ridge which separates the valley of the Gabiare from that of Dünnern. The highest point of Seehof (M. 1'196 m above sea level. ) Is here on the Cholberg reached the southwest lie the Brandberg ( 1,182 m above sea level. M. ) and the Harz ( 1'144 m above sea level. M. ). In the northern flank of this chain two deep erosion valleys are buried, the pipe trench and the Bächlengraben. In the extreme west of the municipality extends to the slopes of Mount Raimeux. From the municipality surface 1997 3 % was attributable to settlements, 64 % of forest and shrubs, 32% to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.
The municipality comprises the hamlets Seehof Bächlen (720 m above sea level. M. ) on the pass to the Grand Val Moutier, Karli mountain ( 752 m above sea level. M. ) and Stägen ( 817 m above sea level. M. ) each in the valley of the Gabiare, further include numerous farmsteads so. Neighboring communities of Seehof Corcelles in the canton of Bern, in the Canton of Jura and Vermes Aedermannsdorf, Herbetswil, Welsch tube and Gänsbrunnen in the canton of Solothurn.
Population
With 70 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Seehof is one of the smallest municipalities in the Bernese Jura. Of the residents 91.1 % are German and 8.9 % French-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Seehof amounted in 1850 to 202 inhabitants, in 1900 only 126 inhabitants. Since then, the number of inhabitants lies always in the range between 70 and 140 people.
Economy
Seehof living from agriculture, with dairy farming and cattle raising predominate. Outside the primary sector, there is little employment in the village.
Traffic
The municipality is one of the most remote places of the northern Jura. They can only be reached by a spur road that branches off from the narrow local road between Corcelles and Vermes. Seehof is not connected to the public transport network.
History
Seehof depended until the end of the 18th century, the provost Moutier- Grandval. From 1797 to 1815 Seehof belonged to France and was initially part of the Département du Mont- Terrible, which was connected to the 1800 Haut -Rhin. By the decision of the Congress of Vienna, the place came in 1815 to the canton of Bern to the district of Moutier. Since 1913, the German variant of the name is officially used.