Stettlen

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

Geography

Stettlen is located in the Bern region east of the Swiss city of Bern in Worblental. Nestled in the valley between the Worble Bantiger and Dentenberg the community includes, but all around an attractive south-facing slope as a prime residential area and most beautiful recreation area. The parish includes the villages Stettlen and Deisswil.

The regional Bern-Solothurn RBS leads in less than 20 minutes from the stations Stettlen and Deisswil to Berne Railway Station.

North of Stettlen in the adjacent municipality Bolligen the collection Bantiger located ( 947 m asl ). The local transmission tower Swisscom supplies the region with nearby radio and television programs, he also offers a good view of the panorama of Jura, Swiss Plateau and the Alps.

Neighboring communities of Stettlen are Vechigen, Muri bei Bern, Ostermundigen and Bolligen.

Population

Policy

• Legislative is the community meeting (usually 2 times annually )
• Executive is the council of 7 members (3 FDP, SVP 1, 1 BDP, 1 SP, 1 independent)

The voting shares of the parties at the national elections of 2011 were: BDP 24.5 %, SVP 20.3 %, SP 17.2 %, FDP 13.4 %, 7.3 % GPS, glp 5.2 %, 3.9 % EPP, CVP 2.7 %, EDU 1.5 %.

History

The place name Stettlen is to be understood as diminutive to the Old High German noun " Stat " and means "little place ", " cookies ". In place names Deisswil probably hides the personal name of a clan chief, there had also won in the 1st millennium, with Roden and Schwenden new farmland.

Documented Stettlen is first mentioned in 1146 as Stetelon, and before the year 1200, the place came under the castle law of the young city of Bern.

From a schoolmaster in Stettlen is the first time in 1620 and the speech of a school construction in 1728. The number of students is 1780 given as 80 to 90. In the second half of the 18th century, most families lived directly from the ground return. Crafts and trades were held in low esteem. A new development and a profound change in the economic structure of the village was initiated in 1876 with the founding of the carton factory in Deisswil, and opened in 1913 Worblentalbahn wore hers to the fact that Stettlen was approaching even closer to the city.

Train

After the playgroup and kindergarten from age 5 years the schoolhouse Bern Street and Garden Street offer the lower grades to 4th year and the school-house bleaching, the real and secondary to 9th school year. The Gymnasiale precursor to the quarters can be visited in the neighboring village Bolligen. Stettlen has 2 gyms and an indoor pool.