Burgdorf, Switzerland

Burgdorf Castle

Burgdorf (French Berthoud, bern German Burtlef ) is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental of Canton Bern, Switzerland.

The name explains the city as: Burgdorf is not a village but a city. The castle, however, stands there, merely they are called Castle. (on the website of the City )

• 5.1 Town twinning

• 6.1 events
• 6.2 Attractions
• 6.3 Burgdorfer writer

History

1175 was Burtorf = castle Bertolfs ( Berchtold ) IV mentioned in connection with a deed Duke Berchtold of Zahringen first time, but referred only to the castle, as the city was beginning to emerge. That the name of the city comes in the above manner from the name of Zähringerplatz Duke, is not without controversy, however, the majority held view of the historian. Anyway, was not understood, so that the first part of the name was interpreted as a castle in later times the connection. The second part of the name - village results in any case little sense since Burgdorf has a city law since very ancient times. The house Zahringen died from 1218. Thus, the dream of this noble family had burst from the establishment of a territorial closed principality in southern Germany - German Switzerland. A large part of the heritage, as well Burgdorf, came to the house Neu- Kyburg, which was related in a complicated way with the house of Habsburg. Of the Kyburgs the city has the coat of arms ( black-white with yellow edging ).

1273 came the so-called Golden Hand festivals in force, the oldest extant version of the Burgdorfer city law. Some provisions were more than 500 years, until the fall of the Old Confederation, in force. Probably the Kyburgs pre-existing rights have taken from the Zähringen time and extended. Overall, the city received a large degree of autonomy from the noble family of Kyburg.

1384, the city came into the possession of the city of Bern. Background is the rapid economic decline of the house ( re) Kyburg. In its financial problems, the Kyburgs turned first to their powerful relatives, the Habsburgs. This triggered defenses in the civil Burgdorfer leadership because (probably with some justification ) a circumcision of the far-reaching autonomy was feared by the Princely House. The emerging city of Bern grabbed the opportunity with both hands and laid siege to the city. Kyburg 's performance in Burgdorfer war of 1383/84 initially military resistance, but had to add eventually. Formally joined Burgdorf by buying the hand; Bern wanted to avoid the appearance of undue appropriation, and the impoverished Kyburgs needed the money.

In a major fire in the upper town burned in 1706 from around 60 houses. 1729 was the first time a first Solemnity ( still run by school festival, the " Solätte " ) at the suggestion of the dean Johann Rudolf Gruner, who is also the founder of the city library, performed.

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi developed from 1800 to 1804 his teaching and educational method in Burgdorf and justified this theory in his major work, How Gertrude teaches her children.

1899, the Burgdorf- Thun Railway was opened as the first full- electric car in Europe. The engine in the 20th century finally had the result that in 1989 the entire upper town was declared free of traffic. In autumn 2002, financed by private funds Franz Gertsch Museum was opened.

Archaeological investigations of the last decades allow to better understand the structural development of the city in the Middle Ages (see also section literature).

Swell

• Collection of Swiss Law Sources, II Department: The sources of law in the canton of Bern, Part Two: Rights of the landscape, Volume 9: The legal sources of the town of Burgdorf and their masters and the mayor Office Burgdorf by Anne -Marie Dubler, Aarau 1995.

Business and education

In the city there are several machine shops and medical technology companies.

Burgdorf applies in Canton as the "City schools ". The foundation stone for the school town laid in 1798 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, who worked for five years in Burgdorf. He set in Burgdorf, a primary school and a teacher training college in the castle. In the course of later decades also the largest high school in the canton of Bern, the pilot (now University of Applied Sciences ) and a large vocational school were built in Burgdorf in addition to the primary schools. The Departments Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering and technology and computer science at the Bern University of Applied Sciences are represented here.

2009, the political debate on the further centralization of the University of Applied Sciences was started so that the facility Burgdorf is discussed. In February 2011, the policy decision of the Government Council was known: The aim is to strengthen the concentration of the BFH at the sites Bern and Biel, the University of Applied Sciences in the Swiss competition. Thus the medium Burgdorf site is closed.

To date, Burgdorf is committed to a comprehensive and quality education system and strengthens the formation Burgdorf site with schools and training centers of regional importance. Therefore, the city also invested in the construction of new school facilities and the establishment of a regional training center at the site.

Health service

Burgdorf has a public hospital with 24 -hour emergency care. It, together with the hospital Langnau regional Emmental AG.

Policy

• SP: 11
• GFL: 4
• EPP: 2
• Glp: 2
• CVP: 1
• FDP: 4
• Jf: 1
• BDP: 7
• SVP: 7
• EDU: 1

Full Official City President since 2009, Elisabeth Zäch (SP). The remaining six members of the executive, the council called, are part-time. The council is politically follows composed since the elections of 25 November 2012: 2 SP, 1 FDP, SVP 1, 1 BDP, GFL 1, 1 EPP. The legislature lasts four years. The municipal council is elected by Majorzwahlrecht, the choice of the mayor will take place on the same day as the other municipal elections, but as a separate choice. A Switzerland -wide feature of the election procedure of Burgdorfer executive is that since 2004 takes place only one ballot, that it is sufficient for the election of a relative majority.

Since 1921 Burgdorf as a legislative parliament, which means City Council and 40 members counts. Before there was a town meeting. The city council is elected by proportional representation since its inception right to vote. The current (as of January 2013) party composition is:

The party composition is as follows:

11 SP, SVP 7, 7 BDP, 5 FDP (including 1 JF ), 4 GFL, 2 EPP, 2 glp, 1 EDU, 1 CVP. The Bureau of the City Council changes every year ( each election at the last meeting of the previous year ) and will be awarded according to unwritten rules alternately among the parties; 2014 Christine Meier of the Green City Council. population

Twinning

Burgdorf maintains official partnerships with

• Burgdorf (Region Hannover) in Germany
• Epesses in the canton of Vaud
• San Pellegrino Terme in the province of Bergamo

With the other cities Zähringerplatz friendly relations are maintained.

Arts Culture

Events

• The Solätte ( Solemnity ) is a folk festival which is celebrated in Burgdorf on the last Monday of June. The first Solätte found in 1729 with a school parade instead. The school move is still part of it. On 26 June 2005, the 275th Solätte was celebrated.
• 1993 and 1994 the first Burgdorfer Crime Days took place. Since then, this mystery festival is conducted every two years, which revolves around fictional, literary, theatrical and real thriller.

Attractions

• Late Gothic parish church 1471-1490
• Old town, with streets, squares and numerous historic buildings
• Burgdorf Castle
• Museum Franz Gertsch
• Luginbuhl Museum in the old slaughterhouse
• Schützenmatte with sandstone Flühen
• Former granary ( hosted from 1991 to 2005 a museum of Swiss folk culture )
• Former oldest pharmacy in Burgdorf was the " small kirchbuehl pharmacy "
• Infirmary and chapel
• See also: List of cultural property in Burgdorf

Burgdorfer writer

The Jenische writer Albert minority living in Burgdorf. 1926 to 1928 he was a town councilor as representative of the PLC. His most important works: The son of the homeless (1925) and The Korberchronik - From the hiking book of the homeless (1948 ). In Steinhofgründe quarters a trail is named after him.

Personalities

• Samuel Huber (1547-1624), theologian, born in Burgdorf
• Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794), landscape painter and poet
• Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827), educator and school reformer, worked from 1800 to 1804 in Burgdorf
• Quick Johann Ludwig (1781-1859), politician
• Karl Schnell (1786-1844), lawyer and politician
• Johann " Hans " Quick (1793-1865), physician, scientist and politician
• Johann Ulrich Aebi (1846-1919), entrepreneur, founder agricultural machinery manufacturer Aebi
• Max Buri (1868-1915), painter, born in Burgdorf
• Hermann Haller (1914-2002), composer and teacher, born and trained in Burgdorf
• Lisa della Casa (1919-2012), opera singer
• Kurt Blum (1922-2005), photographer and documentary filmmaker, spent time teaching in Burgdorf
• Heinz Egger ( born 1937 ), painter and graphic artist, lives and works in Burgdorf
• Willy Michel ( b. 1947 in Burgdorf ), entrepreneur and art patron, and long -term living in Burgdorf, support the urban Medal of Honor
• Paul Wiedmer (* 1947 in Burgdorf ), artist and sculptor
• Res Ingold (* 1954 in Burgdorf ), conceptual artist
• Endo Anaconda (* 1955 in Burgdorf ), singer and writer
• Martin Gerber ( born 1974 in Burgdorf ), Ice Hockey Goalie
• Christa Mark Walder (* 1975 in Burgdorf ), National Councillor
• Simone Niggli -Luder (born 1978 in Burgdorf ) orienteer
• Nadja piers (* 1980 in Burgdorf ), National Councillor
• Pascal Berger (born in 1989 in Burgdorf ), ice hockey player
• Alain Berger (born in 1990 in Burgdorf ), ice hockey player

Pictures

Granary

Castle

City ​​Church