Aefligen

Aefligen, taken from a balloon 16 April 2011

Aefligen ( in local dialect: [ æflig̊ə ] ). Is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland

Geography

Aefligen located in the lower Emmental, in the northwestern corner of the former Office Burgdorf. The village is right on the Emme and the railway line Burgdorf- Solothurn. Aefligen borders the municipalities Rüdtligen- Alchenflüh, Ms. Fountain, Bätterkinden, Utzenstorf and Kirchberg.

Traffic

The municipality is situated on the main road of woman fountain after Utzenstorf and Kirchberg, where the A1 motorway performs. The BLS operates in Aefligen a railway station from where trains to Burgdorf and Solothurn run.

History

The first mention of the place as Efflingen goes back to a land register of the Counts of Kyburg of 1261 / '63 and has been preserved in a copy from the 15th century. The place name, which appeareth in 1267 as Effelingin, 1279 Eflingen and 1280 / '82 as Afflingen is derived Zugehörikeitssuffix - ing- from an Old High German personal names with the meaning as in the people of the Affilo * / * Effilo '.

1429 were the management rights of the court Kirchberg (now parish Kirchberg ) to the city of Bern on that completely took over the territory in 1481. Military Aefligen belonged henceforth to the Official Burgdorf, civil law to the low court Bätterkinden in office Landshut. 1798 was full allotment at the office Burgdorf. In 1910, the last major flood occurred by the Emme. After various flood disasters which also Jeremias Gotthelf described, were created from the mid-19th century on both sides of the Emme dams.