Grafenried, Switzerland
Grafenried until December 31, 2013 municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014, merged Grafenried with the former municipalities Büren, Etzelkofen, Limpach, Mülchi, Schalunen and Zauggenried for Township woman fountain.
Geography
Count Ried is located at 520 m above sea level. M., 9 km west-northwest of Burgdorf and 15 km north- northeast of the capital of the canton of Bern ( straight line ). The scattered village extends in a valley in the eastern part of the plateau Rapperswil, the Swiss Plateau.
The area of 4.7 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the central Bernese Mittelland. The main part of the territory occupied by the broad basin of Grafenried that is drained to the northeast to Urtenen and is surrounded on the other three sides by vast forests. To the north of the municipality floor extends into the forest of oak mountain ( 547 m above sea level. M. ), to the west over a gently rising slope of Rapperswil plateau up to the height of the Buech - Ischlag, on 592 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Grafenried is achieved. In the south and south-east are part of the Hambüelwaldes (546 m above sea level. M. ) and the Loonwaldes ( 544 m above sea level. M. ) to the municipality spell. From the municipality surface 1997 10 % came from settlements, 35 % of forest and woody plants and 55 % to agriculture.
To Grafenried include the residential district Nüechteren (550 m above sea level. M. ) on the eastern slopes of the plateau Rapperswil, the hamlet Buechhof (542 m above sea level. M. ) and Stöckgass (531 m above sea level. M. ) in the trough southwest of the village, the district Bachtelen increased slightly west of the village and some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Grafenried were up 31 December 2013 Mrs. Fountain, Zauggenried, Jegenstorf, Iffwil and Etzelkofen.
Population
With 975 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Count Ried belongs to the smaller municipalities in the canton of Bern. Of the residents 95.9 % are German, 1.7 % French-speaking and 0.3 % speak Italian ( as of 2000). The population of Grafenried amounted in 1850 to 640 residents in 1900 to 556 inhabitants. During the 20th century the population began to rise slowly. Since 1980 (648 inhabitants) a significant population increase was recorded.
Policy
The voting shares of the parties at the national elections of 2011 were: BDP 25.0 %, SVP 20.2 %, SP 15.4 %, GPS, 8.4%, 7.8 % EPP, glp 6.8 %, FDP 6.0 %, EDU 4.5 %, CVP 2.1 %.
Economy
Grafenried was until the second half of the 20th century a predominantly coined by agriculture village. Even today, the farming, fruit growing and dairy farming and forestry have an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In Grafenried today operations of the electrical industry, in construction, computer science, woodworking, horticulture and mechanical workshops are represented. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the agglomeration of Bern.
Traffic
The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. It lies on the old main road from Bern to Solothurn. The nearest links to the A1 ( Bern- Zurich ) is located approximately 6 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 Grafenried in operation. Trains run every half hour to Bern and Solothurn.
History
Excavations of Tumuli from the Hallstatt period in Eichberg forest and presumably remains of a Roman estate on the Wittenberg Field evidence of an early settlement of the municipality of Grafenried. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1258 under the name Grave Riet; 1262 the name Riede and from 1272 Gravinriet is handed down. The place name is derived from the Old High German word Riod ( clearing). The determination Counts word - was introduced to distinguish it from neighboring places of the same name ( Zauggenried, core Ried). It refers to the goods of the Counts of Thierstein.
Since the Middle Ages Grafenried was owned by the Counts of Thierstein, however, came in the second half of the 13th century, the property of the monastery fountain woman, which is below the Kastvogtei the Kyburg. As of 1406 stood Grafenried under Bernese sovereignty and was 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 ) Grafenried belonged 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
On a hill north of the village, close to the border with woman fountain, is the Protestant parish. She goes on a core of a building dating from the 8th century back, belonged to the monastery wife wells since 1258 and had since 1535 ( demolition of the monastery church ) parish church of Mrs. Fountain and Count Ried. Its present form was given the Church the new building in 1747. You harbors baroque choir stalls and a baptismal font from the same era. Together with the rectory (1737) and today's parish house, a converted 1978 Benefice of 1813-14, it forms a remarkable group of buildings.
The center of Earl Ried is one of the worth protecting sites of national importance and has numerous characteristic farmhouses in the Bernese country style from the 17th to the 19th century.