Moosseedorf

Church of Moosseedorf

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

Geography

Moosseedorf is located on 532 m above sea level. M., 8 km north- northeast of the capital of the canton of Bern ( straight line ). The village extends slightly raised south of Moss Lake, on the southeastern end of the Moss Lake Valley and at the northern foot of the Molassehöhen Bantigers, the Swiss Plateau.

The area of ​​6.3 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the central Bernese Mittelland. The northern boundary runs in a straight line along the canalized Urtenen and through the moss lake. From here, the communal land extends southward over the flat, 500 m wide Talniederung on the hill of Moosseedorf and in the vast Wiliwald (up to 600 m above sea level. M. ) on the watershed between the Aare and the Urtenen. To the southeast of the municipality spell reaches into the well of in the sand and over the steep, densely forested northern slope of the gray wood up to the crest of this ridge, on the 800 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Moosseedorf is achieved. From the municipality surface 1997 20 % came from settlements, 36 % of forest and shrubs, 42 % to agriculture and slightly less than 2% was unproductive land.

To Moosseedorf include the roost sand ( 536 m above sea level. M. ) in a trough at the northern foot of the gray wood, east of the highway, as well as the settlement Tannacheren ( 578 m above sea level. M. ) in a clearing between the island Wiliwald and the gray wood. Neighboring communities of Moosseedorf are Schönbühl, Bolligen, Münchenbuchsee and Wiggiswil.

Population

With 3645 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Moosseedorf belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Bern. Of the residents 89.8 % are German, 2.0 % and 1.5 % speak French- Albanian (as of 2000). The population of Moosseedorf amounted in 1850 to 584 residents in 1900 to 573 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population grew slowly but steadily until 1960 to 833 persons. Over the next three decades a stormy population growth with a quadrupling of the population was recorded. Since 1990 (3494 inhabitants), only small population fluctuations are registered. The residential and commercial area of ​​Moosseedorf has grown together seamlessly with that of Schönbühl.

Policy

The voter shares of the parties at the national elections of 2011 were: SVP 31.9 %, SP 20.2 %, 17.4 % BDP, FDP 7.0 %, 6.5 % GPS, glp 5.3 %, 3.0 % EPP, CVP 2.9 %, EDU 1.6 %.

Economy

Moosseedorf was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Today, the municipality offers around 3,800 jobs. With 1 % of the workforce who are still employed in the primary sector, agriculture ( mainly in farming, dairy farming and forestry) only a marginal position in the occupational structure of the population. About 21 % of the workforce are employed in the industrial sector, while the service sector, 78% of workers in united (as of 2001).

This Moosseedorf has become a suburban community of Bern, thanks to the excellent traffic to the site of several large shopping centers ( Shoppyland ) was chosen. Extensive commercial and industrial zones have emerged since the early 1970s in the area of ​​highway exit Schoenbuehl as well as on the western edge of the village. In Moosseedorf today information technology companies, in construction, metal construction and mechanical workshops are represented.

New residential areas have developed since the 1960s on the slopes south of the old village and the sand. Although Moosseedorf has a significant Zupendlerüberschuss, but many are also employed commuters who work in the city and agglomeration of Bern.

Traffic

The community is conveniently technically superbly developed, but is cut by numerous main traffic network into different parts. The old village center is situated on the main road 12 from Bern to Solothurn, respectively, on the main road 1 to Burgdorf. The nearest links to the A1 ( Bern- Zurich ) and A6 ( Bern- Biel) is located less than 1 km from the center. The municipal area is the branch Schoenbuehl where the A6 meets the A1. On April 10, 1910, the section Zollikofen -Solothurn was inaugurated with a railway station in Moosseedorf which is operated today by the company regional Bern-Solothurn (RBS ). Trains run every 15 minutes to Berne, which is reached after a journey time of 12 minutes. Since 2005, the RBS of the S- Bahn Bern joined. Also, the old route of the main line from Bern to Olten runs through the village, has here but no stop.

History

The territory of Moosseedorf can look back on a very long urban tradition. The earliest evidence of human presence were found on the Moosbühl from the late Paleolithic (c. 10000-8000 BC ). At the outflow of Urtenen from the Moossee there was a long period of time during the Neolithic lake-dwelling used. Furthermore, various grave mounds were excavated from the Hallstatt period in the sand.

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1242 under the name Sedorf. Later, the names Seedorf appeared ( 1384 ) and Mossedorf ( 1389 ). The name originally meant lakeside village.

In the Middle Ages Moosseedorf was the headquarters of the Knights of Seedorf. By bartering the village with castle and lake came in 1256 at the Knights Coming in Münchenbuchsee. Since 1406 was responsible for the sovereignty over the territory in Bern. After the Commandery was secularized in 1528, Moosseedorf was assigned to the bailiwick Münchenbuchsee in the district court Zollikofen.

Against the French troops invaded in 1798 took place on March 5, 1798 at the foot of the gray wood to the Battle of the gray wood that led to the final demise of the old Bern. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime, the village belonged to the district during the Helvetic Zollikofen and from 1803 to Oberamt Mrs. Fountain, received the status of an office district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831.

Attractions

The Reformed village church with oldest evidence of 1242, in today's late-Gothic appearance, has a ship with masonry from the Romanesque period. At the rearguard action of the Bernese since 1886 remembers the gray wooden monument.

See also: List of cultural property in Moosseedorf