Rüdtligen-Alchenflüh

Aerial view of Rüdtligen- Alchenflüh from a balloon, taken on April 16, 2011

Rüdtligen- Alchenflüh is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Until 1926 was the official name of the municipality Rüdtligen.

Geography

Rüdtligen- Alchenflüh is located on 505 m above sea level. Level, 5 km northwest of the town of Burgdorf (air line). The village is located in the southern part of the broad alluvial plain of the river Emme, on the left side of the river across from Kirchberg ( BE), the Swiss Plateau.

The area of ​​2.7 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the central Bernese Midland and has virtually no differences in relief on. The northeastern border is the channelized and straightened the Emme. From here, the communal land extends to the southwest over the plains of intensively farmed Emmeebene to the edge of the Women's Fountain Rüdtligen forest. The highest elevation of Rüdtligen- Alchenflüh is 511 m above sea level. M. reached on the southern municipality border. From the municipality surface 1997 26 % came from settlements, 5% of the forest and shrubs, 67% to agriculture and slightly more than 2% was unproductive land.

The municipality consists of the two districts Alchenflüh (510 m above sea level. M. ) on the left side of the Emme opposite of Kirchberg and Rüdtligen (505 m above sea level. M. ), a rural village west of the highway with some beautiful old farmhouses as well as larger housing estates. Neighboring communities of Rüdtligen- Alchenflüh are Kirchberg ( BE), Lyssach, Mrs. Fountain and Aefligen.

Population

With 2352 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Rüdtligen- Alchenflüh belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Bern. Of the residents 85.2 % are German, 3.8 % and 2.3 % speak Italian- Albanian (as of 2000). The population of Rüdtligen- Alchenflüh amounted in 1850 to 476 residents in 1900 to 518 inhabitants. By 1960, the population doubled to 1027 people. Since then, a further doubling of the population was recorded, with the highest growth rates were observed during the 1970s.

Economy

Rüdtligen- Alchenflüh was until the second half of the 20th century, a predominantly shaped by the agriculture community. Today, farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding have only a minor role in the occupational structure of the population. Many other jobs are in the manufacturing and services available. Especially in Alchenflüh larger commercial and industrial zones have been created near the train station and on the edge of the village. In Rüdtligen- Alchenflüh today operations of horticulture, the construction industry, the food industry ( including the cheese Emmi AG) represent and mechanical workshops. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the region of Burgdorf and the agglomeration of Bern. On 21 November 2006, the furniture retail market Conforama was opened in the municipality Rüdtligen- Alchenflüh. Since 15 December 2006, a co-op petrol station with shop and a Burger King restaurant are open. On 1 March 2007 the opening of the Pfister furniture store was. This means that around 500 jobs will be alone offered in the region around the highway exit in Alchenflüh.

Traffic

The community is conveniently reach and accessible. It lies on the main road from Bern to Zurich 1, branching off from the main road here, the 23 to Burgdorf and the Emmental. The municipal area is the junction Kirchberg is located at the A1 ( Bern- Zurich ), about 1 km from the center. On May 26, 1875, the railway line from Burgdorf to Solothurn with the Kirchberg Kirchberg BE station was opened ( in the field of Alchenflüh ). The S-Bahn station of the BLS and the fifteen-minute bus towards Burgdorf offers the inhabitants of the municipality Rüdtligen- Alchenflüh an excellent distribution using public transport.

History

The first is not properly documented mention Rüdtligen- Alchenflühs goes back to the year 894 AD. Later published for Rüdtligen the names male Lingen ( 1261 ), Rüdlingen ( 1275 ), Rütlingen ( 1303), Rüttlingen ( 1582) and Rüedligen (1783 ). The name goes back to the Old High German personal name Hrodilo or Ruodilo and thus means for the people of Hrodilo / Ruodilo. Alchenflüh 1389 is named as Alfenflün 1409 as Alchenflu and 1579 Allchaflü in the documents. This name comes from the Old High German personal name Alcher or Alker and means at the Flühen of Alcher, bringing the sandstone cliff at Kirchberg are meant.

Probably at the time of the Kingdom of Upper Burgundy, the place was an important place of judgment (under the tree to Alchenflüh Saar ) in the region. In the High Middle Ages Rüdtligen and Alchenflüh belonged to the royal court of Kirchberg. Later, the villages were under the suzerainty of Zaehringen and from the 13th century to that of Kyburg. Under Bernese rule (since 1406) formed Alchenflüh still one of trial, which was first, from 1471 subordinated to the bailiwick of the cheeks Schultheissen Office Burgdorf. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) Rüdtligen and Alchenflüh belonged during the Helvetic Republic to the district of Burgdorf and from 1803 to Oberamt hamlet, was given the status of an office district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831. Since 1833 Alchenflüh belonged to the political community Rüdtligen.

By decision of the municipality on November 8, 1926, the community name of Rüdtligen in Rüdtligen- Alchenflüh was changed. A 1973 conducted advisory vote on a merger of Rüdtligen- Alchenflüh with Kirchberg was rejected. The A1 motorway cuts since its opening in 1965, the districts Rüdtligen and Alchenflüh. As part of the construction of the new railway line from Bern to Olten ( Rail 2000 ) to 2001, the highway was transferred to a these constructions, whereby the quality of living was raised in the villages and a new recreational space was created. The center of Kirchberg BE was also liberated by the relief road Kirchberg - Alchenflüh from through traffic.

Attractions

In the district Rüdtligen some characteristic farmhouses in the Bernese country style from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved. Rüdtligen- Alchenflüh does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Kirchberg. Was developed into a meeting place ( skating rink, grills, tables, benches, porch, etc.), the covering of the highway. Behind it is an ecological compensation area of the railway in 2000, the area Schmittebächli with a large pond.

In the 2010 aborted chicory halls in Alchenflüh born in Burgdorf director Franz Schnyder had set up the studios of his company 's New Film AG and realized there several of his known Gotthelf movies.

Village sign Rüdtligen

Highway cover

Renaturation

Shopping mall

Shopping mall

Personalities

• Michel Wehner (born 1964 ), Swiss clairvoyant, better known by his pseudonym Mike Shiva