Rüegsau
CH RUE ( Rüegsauschachen )
Rüegsau is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
- 5.1 The Bridge of Rüegsauschachen
Geography
Rüegsau located in the lower Emmental. The municipality covers of the Emme forth along the creek Rüegsauschachen the villages Rüegsauschachen, Rüegsauschachen, Rüegsbach and Rinderbach and several hamlets. It has approximately the shape of a rectangle of about 2 km wide and 8 km in length. The lowest point is on the banks of the river Emme to 560 m above sea level, the highest point to 841 m asl
Economy
In the town are the headquarters of the company Blaser Swisslube AG, a leading manufacturer of coolants and lubricants for the machinery industry, and the pan-European engineering and surveying firm of Hans Grunder, the Grunder Ingenieure AG. In 2013 there were in the church 80 farms
Tourism
Tourism plays only a small but not insignificant role, several typical Emmental inns offer bed and in another holiday on a farm possible. A small museum on the history is right on the Emme. However, the main attraction is the wooden bridge over the Emme between the municipalities and Hasle Rüegsau. With 60.15 m arch span and a total bridge length of 69.2 m, it is the longest wooden arch span bridge in Europe. In the chapel of St. Blaise in the district Rüegsbach are the oldest church bells in Switzerland ( from the 12th and 13th century).
Traffic
The station Hasle- Rüegsau BLS AG is used together with the village of Hasle bei Burgdorf.
History
The name Rüegsauschachen first appears in a charter of 1139 and comes from " ruggere aue ", or " calm Aue ". Characteristic of all the medieval history of Rüegsauschachen was a 1528 reversed Benedictine convent, monastery Rüegsauschachen.
Population
The community numbered at December 31, 2012 3087 inhabitants. Following a sharp decline in population in the 1960s and 70s, the population grows evenly since the 1990s.
Attractions
The Bridge of Rüegsauschachen
The arch wooden bridge replaced a Trestle, which was swept away in 1837 at the Water Crisis in the Emmental. Jeremias Gotthelf wrote:
" Raging epidemic ravaged Emme down the valley, many hundred feet wide, almost from one Emmen Rain on the other hand, Hasle and the Rüegsauschachen to. There, the angle economies had long since emptied of course often anxious to leave the triple gejochte bridge connecting the timber volume resisted the free passage with their narrow spaces. Here, as in all the top places no one thought of measures to shield the bridges, but as usual, were in former times, and especially in the Hasle bridge. The inhibited Emme reared on pine fir, Trämel on Trämel, far above the bridge piled the crackling wood pile. On both sides of the water now flows with ever increasing violence and sought the stream uninhibited path. A few more minutes and you start would have succeeded on the Hasle page. It waited in the terror of death, the Kalchofenbewohner the falling water flood which devastated the entire upper castle level, a new bed could be dug. It fled the Rüegsauer by the rising waters, and everywhere there was a prayer that the bridge but would like to go another. "
The old bridge was swept away. 1837 the construction of a wooden bridge arch of the Bernese government was granted. In 1955 the bridge was demolished and replaced by a modern concrete bridge. The wooden bridge was stored and 600 m further down Emme rebuilt in 1957/ 1958. It has become the emblem of the communities Hasle and Rüegsauschachen.
Train
The municipality operates four primary schools and one secondary school along with Hasle.
- Walter Laedrach: The Bridge of Rüegsauschachen, 1926
- Hans Würgler: History of Rüegsauschachen, 1965