Büren zum Hof

Büren was up on December 31, 2013 a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 merged Buren to the court with the former municipalities Etzelkofen, Count Ried, Limpach, Mülchi, Schalunen and Zauggenried for Township woman fountain.

Geography

Buren to the farm is located on 510 m above sea level. M., 10 km west-northwest of the town of Burgdorf (air line). The scattered village extends in the northeastern part of Rapperswil plateau, west of the flood plain of the river Emme, on the Swiss Plateau.

The area of ​​3.4 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the central Bernese Mittelland. For weakly in relief, intensively farmed area includes the plateau of Buren ( above average at 505 m. M. ), which falls to the east over a 20 m high ground level to the Emme level with the Fraubrunnenmoos. The western edge of this level at the same time forms the eastern boundary of the municipality. To the north the plateau gradually lowers to dump the acoustic mat that is drained from the Chrümmlisbach to Limpach. To the west is the municipality of soil over the gently undulating landscape of Rapperswil plateau that was formed by the glacial Rhone glacier, to the heights of guard-house (535 m above sea level. M. ) and Buechhubel M. extends ( 552 m above sea level., The highest elevation of Buren to the court ) and in the little valley of Shatt Get. In a small corner of the area extends west to Schoeni mountain ( 549 m above sea level. M. ). From the municipality surface 1997 10 % came from settlements, 18% of forest and woody plants and 72% to agriculture.

To Büren include groups of houses Chapf, Speichhüsli and Dorzenmatten. Neighboring communities of Buren facing the courtyard are Schalunen, Ms. Fountain, Etzelkofen, Mülchi and Limpach.

Population

With 463 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Buren part of the yard to the small municipalities of the canton of Bern. Of the residents 97.7 % are German, 0.7 % French-speaking and 0.7 % speak Serbo-Croatian (as of 2000). The population of Büren amounted in 1850 to 457 residents in 1900 to 319 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated always in the range 280-340 people. Since 1970 (345 inhabitants) a significant increase in population was recorded again.

Policy

The voting shares of the parties at the national elections of 2011 were: SVP 32.9 %, 18.9 % BDP, SP 17.0 %, 14.7 % GPS, glp 5.0 %, FDP 4.7 %, 2.8 % EPP, EDU 1.2 %, CVP 1.1 %.

Economy

Büren was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the agriculture and livestock have an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available, including a carpenter, in a horticultural farm and in a graphic studio. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions of Solothurn and Burgdorf and in the agglomeration of Bern.

Traffic

The community is located off of the larger passage axes at a connecting road from Mrs. Fountain by Limpach. The nearest links to the A1 ( Bern- Zurich ) is located approximately 7 km from the town center. On April 10, 1916, the section Zollikofen -Solothurn, which is now operated by the public transport company regional Bern-Solothurn, was taken with a train station in Büren in operation.

History

Remains of grave mounds from the Hallstatt period on the Buechhubel point to an early settlement of the municipality of Buren to the yard. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1249 under the name burron. Later, the spellings Buron ( 1266 ) and Bürron published ( 1275 ). The place name is derived from the Old High German word bur ( house, building, house) and means at the houses in the village. The addition to the courtyard was used until recently, in order to ensure a better differentiation with the same localities.

First Buren belonged to the court the Knights of Schüpfen, but already in 1255 there was a large part of the territory of the monastery woman fountain. The further history is closely linked to that of Mrs. Fountain. In 1375 the village was drawn through the plundering of Gugler affected. As of 1406 stood Büren under Bernese rule and after the secularization of the abbey Frauenbrunnen assigned in 1528 the bailiwick wife fountain in the district court Zollikofen. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) Buren belonged to the court during the Helvetic Republic to the district Zollikofen and from 1803 to Oberamt Mrs. Fountain, received the status of an office district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831.

Attractions

In the center numerous stately farmhouses in the Bernese country style from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved, so Büren has a worthy of protection of national importance. The village has no church of its own, it belongs to the parish Limpach ( protestant) and parish Utzenstorf ( Catholic). Two monuments commemorate the military conflicts in the region: The Memorial to the expulsion of Gugler after the attack on the nun Fountain (1824 built ), and a memorial stone from 1898 to the fallen in battle against the French troops (1798 ).

Alpenzeiger: North of the village, on the hill against Limpach, a large lime tree with a hand-painted panorama of 1926 In fine weather can be seen from here, the Alps and the Jura..