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Barns taken from a balloon 16 April 2011
Barns is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 merged with the former barns Münchringen community to community Jegenstorf.
Geography
Barns located at 575 m above sea level. Level, 13 km north of the capital of the canton of Bern ( straight line ). The small village extends a scenic location on a gently sloping hillside to the north in the center of Rapperswil plateau, on the Swiss Plateau.
The area of 2.2 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the gently undulating landscape of the central Bernese Mittelland. From southwest to northeast, the area is crossed by the thickly wooded valley of Mülchibachs (right tributary of the Limpachs ), is mentioned in the lower part also Länggengraben. On the western side of this valley of the municipality spell reaches into the Junkholz (up to 570 m above sea level. M. ) and in the headwaters of Messi Bach. To the southeast is the municipality floor extends to the height of barns, in the Steiner forest and up to the edge of Mannenbuechwaldes, at the 585 m above sea level. M. the highest point of the municipality is reached. From the municipality surface 1997 4 % came from settlements, 52 % of forest and woody plants and 44% to agriculture.
The scattered settlement consists of six groups of farms, barns and some single farms. Neighboring communities of barns were up 31 December 2013 Etzelkofen, Iffwil, Bangerten and Rapperswil (BE ) in the canton of Bern and fairs in the canton of Solothurn.
Population
With 76 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) barns is one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Bern. Of the residents gave in 2000 the survey to the census all German as a mother tongue. The population of barns amounted in 1850 to 118 residents in 1900 to 96 inhabitants. During the 20th century the population continuously increased by a further 40 % to 57 persons. Only since 2000, a slight increase in population was recorded again.
Policy
The voting shares of the parties at the national elections of 2011 were: SVP 80.7 %, 13.6 % BDP, GPS 2.1 %, CVP 1.2 %, 1.0 % glp, EDU 0.2 %, SP 0.1 %, EPP 0.1%, FDP 0.0%.
Economy
Barns was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, agriculture and dairy farming, and forestry an important place in the economic structure of the population. Outside the primary sector only a few jobs are available in the village. Some of the working population commuters who work mainly in the larger towns in the area.
Traffic
The community is located far away from the larger passage axes, but is easily accessible from Münchenbuchsee or Jegenstorf. Barns has no connection to the public transport network.
History
The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1226 under the name Schunon. Later, the names Scunon ( 1239 ), Schünon ( 1240), Schunnon ( 1387 ) and Schünen (1531 ) published. The place name comes from the Middle High German word schiune (barn ).
Since the Middle Ages barns was under the suzerainty of the Counts of Kyburg. 1406 came the sovereignty over the territory of the Kyburgs to Bern, the barns then assigned the district court Zollikofen. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ), 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.
By 1912, measuring Barn and Upper Barns formed two independent political communities. The former belonged to the canton of Solothurn parish fairs, while the latter was pfarrgenössig after Jegenstorf. At the beginning of 1912 merged the two small communities to the new community barns, where the previous affiliation was preserved at various parishes until today.