Lohnstorf

Lohnstorf is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Geography

Lohnstorf is located on 570 m above sea level. M., 11 km northwest of the city of Thun (air line). The farming village extends on the lower eastern slopes of the length of the mountain, slightly increased about 20 m above the valley floor Gürbe.

The area of ​​1.8 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the middle Gürbetal. The eastern part of the municipality is located in the intensively farmed level of Gürbetal (550 m above sea level. M. ) which here is about 1.5 km wide. The eastern boundary runs pretty much along a dirt road in the middle of the valley, east of the channelized Gürbe. To the west of the municipality extends over the ground relatively gently rising slope of Lohnstorf, the southern boundary is located in the area of ​​the projection of Schönegg. With 780 m above sea level. M. is achieved on the eastern slope of the Egghölzli the highest point of Lohnstorf. From the municipality surface 1997 7 % was attributable to settlements, 2% of forest and woody plants and 90 % to agriculture; slightly more than 1 % was unproductive land.

To Lohnstorf include some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Lohnstorf are Mühlethurnen, Kirchdorf (BE), Burgi stone and Riggisberg.

Population

With 218 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Lohnstorf one of the small communities of the Canton of Bern. Of the residents 99.0 % are German and 1.0 % speak French (as of 2000). The population of Lohnstorf amounted in 1850 to 170 residents in 1900 to 189 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated constantly in the range of 160 190 people.

Policy

The voting shares of the parties at the national elections of 2011 were: SVP 44.4 %, SP 20.2 %, BDP 16.0 %, glp 4.6 %, GPS 4.1 %, FDP 3.6 %, EDU 2.3 %, SD 1.4 %, CVP 0.9 %, EPP 0.7 %.

Economy

Lohnstorf was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming and market gardening (particularly carbon plantations ) in Guerbetal and dairy farming and livestock on the hillsides an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available, including a paint store and a carpenter. In recent decades, the village has developed thanks to its attractive location and into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the larger towns in the area, in the agglomeration of Bern or Thun.

Traffic

The community is conveniently technically quite well developed. It lies on the main road from Bern to Thun by the Guerbetal. Lohnstorf itself has no connection to the public transport network. Easily accessible, however, is the Thurnen station on the Gürbetalbahn in Mühlethurnen.

History

The territory of Lohnstorf was inhabited early, which could be demonstrated by means of some ruins of a Roman settlement in the Brühl. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1148 under the name Lonestorf. Later, the names Lonstorf ( 1330), Lonesdorf ( 1345 ) and Lonsdorf ( 1354 ) published. The name goes back to the Old High German personal name Lono and accordingly is the village of Lono.

In the Middle Ages Lohnstorf first belonged to the monastery owned by Rüeggisberg, after various Bernburger families before it was sold in 1343 to the monastery of Interlaken. The sovereignty over Lohnstorf arrived in 1388 at Berne. Since then, the village was placed under the district court Seftigen. After the Reformation in 1528 was also the direct rule of the monastery to the city of Bern, which Lohnstorf the court Thurnen (from the 18th century Venner court Mühlethurnen ) allotted.

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) Lohnstorf belonged during the Helvetic Republic to the District Seftigen and from 1803 to Oberamt Seftigen, which was given the status of an office district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831. Since the mid 19th century, the Gürbe has been corrected in several stages and the previously almost every year from floods ravaged valley largely drained. This was obtained in the course of time, valuable agricultural land. Due to a major fire in 1904 seven houses were severely affected in the night of November 10. Lohnstorf does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish church Thurnen.