Aeschlen bei Oberdiessbach

Aeschlen at Oberdiessbach (official municipality name: Aeschlen ) was a municipality in the district of Konolfingen in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2010 the municipality Aeschlen has merged with Oberdiessbach the new community Oberdiessbach.

Geography

The former church is a typical scattered settlement at a northwest exposed hillside. She has no real village center. Aeschlen referred to himself as a " pretty little mountain village at the gateway to the Emmental ." The main street of Oberdiessbach direction Linden and on to Röthenbach through the community, which extends over a wide area from the hamlet to the House on the heights of the Aeschlenalp.

Fusion Aeschlen - Oberdiessbach

The municipality has Aeschlen must take on many former Canton tasks since 1980, what the church finances weighed heavily. The precarious financial situation has led to a public cry for help the community what great media attention and subsequently led to notable donations. This enabled the accumulated deficit be brought below the critical level, which would have the Canton of Bern is forced to take over control of the municipal finances. This was reason enough for clarifications about a possible merger of the municipalities Aeschlen and Oberdiessbach. The Bernese Government supported the merger project by taking over part of the cost and advice.

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