Rüti bei Lyssach

Ruti bei Lyssach is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Geography

Ruti at Lyssach is at 523 m above sea level. M., 4 km west of the town of Burgdorf (air line). The small village extends in a basin at the southern edge of the flood plain of the river Emme, at the foot of the tertiary sandstone of the higher Swiss plateau.

The area of ​​1.3 km ² large municipality area comprises a gently undulating section of the central Bernese Mittelland. The main part is occupied by the approximately 1.5 km long and 0.5 km wide trough of Ruti that is drained by a creek north to Emme. In the north, this basin from Räbberg and the Binzberg (551 m above sea level. M. ), flanked by the Snowed Mountain to the west by Büelhölzli and south. On the northern slope of the mountain Snowed is 590 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Ruti bei Lyssach. To the east of the municipality extends to the bottom of the hill Rohrmishubels. From the municipality surface 1997 9 % came from settlements, 11 % of forest and woody plants and 80 % to agriculture.

For Ruti bei Lyssach include several groups of farms and individual farms. Neighboring communities of Ruti bei Lyssach are Lyssach, Burgdorf, Upper Castle and Mötschwil.

Population

With 163 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Ruti bei Lyssach belongs to the smallest municipalities in the canton of Bern. Of the residents 97.4 % are German, 0.6 % French-speaking and 0.6 % speak Spanish ( as of 2000). The population of Ruti bei Lyssach amounted in 1850 to 132 residents in 1900 to 128 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated always in the range between 100 and 140 inhabitants, but had in recent years a rising trend.

Economy

Ruti bei Lyssach was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Today, farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding have a small role in the occupational structure of the population. Outside the primary sector, very few jobs are available in the village. Most workers are commuters who mostly ( Bern -Burgdorf ) work in the surrounding region.

Traffic

The municipality is situated approximately 500 m from the old main road from Bern via Hindelbank to Burgdorf. The nearest links to the A1 ( Bern- Zurich ) is located approximately 3 km from the center. Access to public transport provides the Lyssach station, 1.5 km from the center.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1346 under the name Ruti. The place name is derived from the Old High German word Riod ( clearing). In the Middle Ages Ruti was under at Lyssach the supremacy of the Counts of Kyburg. After the village was reached in 1406 under the rule of the Bernese, it was the 1471 Schultheissen Office Burgdorf allocated. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) belonged Ruti bei Lyssach 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.

Attractions

In the old town numerous characteristic farmhouses have survived in the Bernese country style in the 18th and 19th centuries. Ruti bei Lyssach owns a small country church in late Romanesque style, but this was later changed several times.