Lauenen
Church and village of Lauenen
Lauenen (French Lauvine ) is a municipality in the Obersimmental -Saanen of the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Name
Lauenen (Romanesque lavina ) is known as a place with landslides or large avalanches. 1296 Lauenen is first mentioned historically as the lowinon.
Geography
Lauenen located in the Bernese Oberland in the Lauenental. The neighboring communities of north clockwise are starting Saanen, steering, Ayent, Savièse and Gsteig near Gstaad.
The mountains in the south of the municipality, such as the Wildhorn ( 3'248 m above sea level. M. ), form the boundary to the Wallis. The lowest point of the municipality is located on 1,153 m above sea level. M. ( Engewald ) in a southerly direction, the Wildhorn is the highest peak.
In Lauenen are the Tungelgletscher, the Apply glaciers and Lauenensee.
Of the total area of 58.71 km ² 29.59 km ² are with more than half of agricultural land, 12.77 km ² of forest and only 0.23 km ² settlement area.
Policy
The voting shares of the parties at the national elections of 2011 were: SVP 65.8 %, BDP 9.9 %, SP 7.9 %, EDU 4.3 %, FDP 3.8 %, 2.6 % GPS, EPP 2.4 %, 2.2 % glp, CVP 0.1%.
Personalities
- Gottfried Strasser (1854-1912), priest and poet ( born in Lauenen )
- Ernst Friedrich Langhans (1829-1880) worked from 1855 to 1858 in Lauenen as reformed pastor