Niederstocken

Niederstocken was until December 31, 2013 municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 merged Niederstocken with the former municipalities of courts in Thun and Oberstocken merged to a halt - yards.

Name

The name Niederstocken goes back to the Old High German word stoc species ( tree trunk, tree trunk ). In place and field names as land clearing, respectively. The determination of low word is used to distinguish the upper halt of the same name. The first historical mention, in 1309, when the speech is " from the castle ze halt ".

Geography

Niederstocken located in the Bernese Oberland in the Alps in Stockental. The neighboring communities of North Clockwise starting at were up on December 31, 2013 yards, Reutigen, Erlenbach im Simmental and upper halt. The village is at the foot of a wooded hillside north and is crossed by Feusibach, which joins below the village with the coming of the Stockenfluh ago Fluhbach to Glütschbach.

Policy

The voting shares of the parties at the national elections of 2011 were: SVP 44.0 %, BDP 19.6 %, SP 10.7 %, GPS 6.3 %, EPP 4.2 %, EDU 4.1 %, glp 4.1 %, CVP 1.4, FDP 1.3 %, SD % 1.2 % Alps Parliament 1.1 %.

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