Frutigen
View from the Tellenburg
Frutigen is a municipality and the capital of the administrative district Frutigen- Niedersimmental of the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Policy
The management responsibilities ( executive) take over the council and the council president. The party-political situation in the council sets since the general election in 2013 until the next inauguration in 2017 as follows:
- SVP: 5 ( inc.)
- EPP: 1 ( - 1 )
- FDP and GLP: 2 ( 1)
- EDU: 1 ( fixed)
Council president Ruedi Egger, SVP (2010-2013 and 2014-2017 ).
The mayor, however, belongs to the legislature. He has mainly representative functions and is ombudsman of the community. Mayor since 2010 Kurt Zimmermann ( SVP).
Geography
The municipality is located in the Kander and Engstligental and extends from the Niesen chain to the Gehrihorn. Frutigen is divided into eight Bäuerten ( districts ) (of Engstligental Achseten and Elsigbach ).
History
A Lappenaxt from the Bronze Age is the first track of residents in Frutigen. Coins and an iron plowshare occupy a Roman settlement in the Kander Valley. In the 8th century construction of the first church in Frutigen, the present church was rebuilt after a fire in 1727. 1228 first documentary mention of Frutigen.
In order to settle urgent debts, sold Mr. Anton of Turn in 1400 for 6200 florins the rule Frutigen to the Schultheissen of Bern. The Kander was a Bernese bailiwick, managed by a Kastlane ( bailiff ), based on the Tellenburg. The Tellenburg was built in the 12th century by Berchtold V of Zähringen as a fortress and is now dilapidated into ruin.
Like the rest of the Oberland opposed Frutigen 1528 also introduced by Bern Reformation, but had to after the collapse of the uprising Interlaken accept the new faith. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the area became a center of Reformed revival in the Bernese Oberland. From 1798 to 1803 ( Helvetic ) the Bernese Oberland was a separate canton and the capital of the district Frutigen Frutigen. Then the Kander was another of Canton Bern, upper office and in 1831 an office district. On August 3, 1827 village fire destroyed 82 houses and 48 barns, except the church were only six houses intact.
From 1804 reversed a mail car from Frutigen to Thun. With the expansion of roads, the Kander Valley tourism and industrialization opened. 1901 Frutigen was connected by railway with Spiez; the continuation through the Lötschberg tunnel to Brig was 1913. 1917 reversed the first post auto heading to Adelboden. Frutigen is the seat of a secondary school (1865 ), vocational schools and one district hospital (1907 ) and since 2010 the capital of the administrative district newly formed Frutigen- Niedersimmental.
Pictures
Sports hall Widi
Reformed village church
Catholic Church
Tellenburg
Left: old viaduct, right extended train line
Swell
- Collection of Swiss Law Sources. Division II: The sources of law in the canton of Bern. Part Two: Rights of the landscape. Volume 2: Hermann Renne trip: The Statutarrecht the Frutigen to 1798 Aarau, 1937 (online)..
Economy
Agriculture
As in most alpine areas, the agriculture is based mainly on grass cultivation and livestock. Frutigen had a cattle market in the 14th century. The livestock was an important industry, until 1866, there were also runs a cattle breed, the Frutigland shock.
For centuries, the Kander was the land of sheep pastures. All the wool of the sheep was processed even in the valley, for Frutigland cloth which was very popular for costumes throughout the Bern region. The highlight of the cloth manufacture in the 19th century.
The cultivation of corn was according to documents from the 15th century is not very significant, although it stood until the 17th century twelve mills in the valley, but their grain shopped mainly in the lowlands. For the cultivation of potatoes, the conditions were much more favorable and therefore they quickly found widest distribution. The first potatoes were planted in 1729. For the growing battle for face elections, the arable land was again extended. Today there are no more in Frutigen agriculture.
Tropenhaus
The Lötschberg base tunnel is on the north side about 100 liters per second from about 20 ° C warm mountain water. The idea that the mountain water is used for a sturgeon breeding and the production of tropical fruits, came from Peter farrier. The project Tropenhaus was launched in 2002 with a feasibility study. In 2003, the start-up company Tropenhaus AG was founded with headquarters in Frutigen. The tropical house was opened in late 2009.
Industry
The 91 industrial companies employ 2001 workers in 1096 and, together with the services sector (204 companies / employees in 1476 ), the main employer in Frutigen.
Towards the end of the 18th century also held in Frutigen industrialization feeder. The shale mining is the oldest mining law and dates back to 1486. 1937 was the heyday of the slate with 196 employees.
The country treasurer Friedrich Schneider, built in 1850, the first match factory, 15 years later, there were already 15 companies with a total of 332 employees. In 1972, the match manufacture was totally set. Messengers from the Zündholzzeitalter there are the two that Bühler woodchip is one of them, as the name says they now make up wood chip box here. The affiliated company is a wooden box museum.
Today's industry is mainly due to the production of hydraulic parts. Around 700 employees are currently earning their bread in hydraulics and export of which 95 % in the whole world. The Wandfluh AG is one of the most important companies in the valley.
NEAT Lötschberg base tunnel
The Lötschberg base tunnel, length 34.6 km, from Frutigen to Raron connects since 2007 by the shortest route with the rest of the Valais German Switzerland. Since the first blast on 5 July 1999 at the foot point Mitholz the miners were at work, the breakthrough was made on 28 April 2005. On 16 June 2007, the tunnel was opened with a festival in Frutigen and Visp.
Since Fahrplahnwechsel of December 2007, the trains of the international and national long-distance traffic also operate via the Lötschberg base tunnel. The previous stop in Frutigen is abandoned there. Both measures together lead to a gain in time of a quarter of an hour ( Bern -Brig been 77 minutes, new 63 min).
Health service
Frutigen has a public hospital with 24 -hour emergency care. It belongs to the composite Klink FMI hospitals (hospitals Frutigen, Meiringen, Interlaken ).
Personalities
- Maria Lauber (1891-1973), dialect poet
- Walter Donzé (1946 ), National
- Denis Müller ( 1947), professor of theology and ethics, University of Lausanne (home Frutigen )
- Hans Ruedi Wandfluh (1952 ), National Council, SVP, Bern / Director delegate Wandfluh AG, Hydraulics Electronics
- William White (1972 ), singer
- Emanuel Oppliger (1975 ), Snowboarder
- Heinz Inniger (1981 ), Snowboarder
- Christoph Kunz (1982 ), Olympic champion and silver medalist Paralympic Downhill, Giant Slalom
- Mike Schmid ( 1984), the first Olympic champion ski cross
- Nadine Zumkehr (1985 ), Swiss champion beach volleyball