Seeberg

Reformed Church Seeberg

Seeberg is a municipality in the Oberaargau the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Geography

Seeberg is located at 495 m above sea level. M., 5 km south-west of Herzogenbuchsee and 11 km north of the town of Burgdorf (air line). The village is located in the wide valley of the village Bach nestled between the hills of Chräjenberg and mountain, on the edge of Molassehügellandes east of the flood plain of the river Emme, in the Upper Aargau.

The area of ​​15.8 km ² large municipality area includes a section of the Bernese Mittelland, with a large variety of landscapes. The area was located during the high stage of the Ice Age, in the edge region of the Rhone Glacier. The larger western part of the municipality is characterized by the rounded tertiary sandstone of large wood (603 m above sea level. M. ), Stone Mountain ( 634 m above sea level. M. ), the amount of Steinhofgründe (up to 595 m above sea level. M. ) and mountain ( 543 m above sea level. M. ). These heights are separated by 200 to 600 m wide, shallow hollows without actual watercourses from each other. Especially in the Forest of Stone Mountain is proved by numerous boulders of gneiss, as it occurs in the Valais Alps, the long journeys during the Ice Age. The northwestern part of the municipality includes the level at Seeberg, which extends to the Burgäschisee, is also part of its southern part to Seeberg.

The Valley of Oenz that crosses the municipality from south to north, with up to 500 m wide flat valley floor formed during the Ice Age, a long time a meltwater channel at the edge of the Rhone Glacier. The smaller south-eastern part of the municipality is located in more in relief hills of Buchsiberge ( between Oenz and Langete ) with steep, mostly forested slopes and V-shaped valleys, characteristic landforms for areas that were not covered by ice during the last ice age. In a small corner of the communal land extends to the southeast and the eastern edge of the Mutzbachtals with the short Seitentälchen and the heights of Heidetewald (662 m above sea level. M. ), Lindenberg includes ( 810 m above sea level. M. the highest elevation of Seeberg ) and Eggstutzwald (808 m above sea level. M. ). From the municipality surface 1997 7 % was attributable to settlements, 34 % of forest and shrubs, 58 % to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.

At Seeberg include numerous hamlets and isolated farms Hofsiedlungen. Among the important of which include:

  • Grasswil consisting of Niedergrasswil (511 m above sea level. M. ) and Obergrasswil (515 m above sea level. M. ) in the hollow between large wood and stone mountain
  • Spiegelberg (511 m above sea level. M. ) in the hollow between large wood and stone mountain
  • Bittwil ( 544 m above sea level. M. ) in a small valley on the eastern slope of the Grand wood
  • Rain dumps (501 m above sea level. M. ) in the hollow between the height of Steinhofgründe and the Steinberg
  • Riedtwil ( 498 m above sea level. M. ) in Önztal at the mouth of Mutzbachs in the Oenz between Steinberg and Guldisbergwald
  • Oschwand (626 m asl. ) East on a saddle in the Buchsibergen of Heidetewaldes; only the west of the village street located houses belong to Seeberg
  • Hole (613 m above sea level. M. ) in the Buchsibergen on a terrace east of Mutzbachtals
  • Juchten ( 687 m above sea level. M. ) on the western slope of the Lindenberg on the Mutzbachtal

Neighboring communities of seamount are Herzogenbuchsee, Hermiswil, Ochlenberg, Wynigen, Alchenstorf and Hellsau in the canton of Bern and three courtyards and Aeschi (SO) and Steinhofgründe in the canton of Solothurn.

Population

With 1426 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Seeberg one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Bern. Of the residents 97.5 % are German, 0.7 % Turkish-speaking and 0.5 % speak French (as of 2000). The population of Seeberg amounted in 1850 to 1954 inhabitants, in 1900 to 1722 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population increased by strong migration to 1980 by 30 % to 1224 persons. Since then, a slight increase in population was recorded again.

Economy

Seeberg was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, agriculture and fruit growing and cattle breeding and dairy farming an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In Seeberg today among builders, the electrical industry, horticulture, wood processing, computer science, mechanical engineering, as well as garages and repair shops, are represented. In recent decades, the village has developed through the construction of new neighborhoods, especially in the area of Seeberg and Grasswil into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions Langenthal - Herzogenbuchsee, Burgdorf and Solothurn.

Traffic

The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. It lies on the main road from Bern to Zurich 1. By bus, which operates direct flight from Herzogenbuchsee to Wynigen, Seeberg, Grasswil and Riedtwil are connected to the public transport network. The leading through the Önztal, on June 12, 1857, inaugurated the railway line from Herzogenbuchsee to Bern possessed a stop in Riedtwil, which was annulled in 1998.

History

The territory of Seeberg was inhabited during the Roman period, which could be proved by excavations from Roman wall foundations on the church hill. The first documentary mention of the place was already in 1076 under the present name. Later ( 1264 ) and Zeberch the names Seberch published ( 1301). The place name is derived from the Old High German word seo (lake). It means mountain lake, because the Burgäschisee used to extend to the hamlet Mösli.

Since the Middle Ages Seeberg shelter with Grasswil and Riedtwil the rule of Kyburg. Grasswil 1370 was sold to a family from Solothurn, but was under pressure from Bern in 1395 transferred to the town of Burgdorf, what a Vogt began in Grasswil. Also Seeberg and Riedtwil 1406 came under the suzerainty of the city of Bern and the Bailiwick cheeks were assigned. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) belonged Seeberg during the Helvetic Republic to the district from 1803 to the cheeks and upper cheeks Office, which received the status of an office district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831.

Attractions

In Roman times the church hill was inhabited. In 2000 ruins of a Roman estate were found. Later at the site was a cemetery where a small, yet wooden church was built first. This explains the situation of the Church outside the town, on the so-called "mountain". Various churches of stone broke off, to 1516 today's late-Gothic church of St. Martin was built with a tower. A mentioned in the 11th century church is believed to be a daughter church of the Provost Herzogenbuchsee. The parsonage in the country house style comes from, 1781.

In Seeberg and in the various hamlets numerous characteristic farmhouses have survived in the Bernese country style from the 17th to the 19th century.

Among the natural attractions in the municipality include the Burgäschisee, the erratic blocks on the stone mountain and the waterfall of Mutzbachs.

Pictures

Interior of the church

Rectory

Half-timbered house in Seeberg

Schoolhouse Seeberg

Wood sheds in Seeberg

Personalities

The painter Cuno Amiet lived for 60 years in the hamlet Oschwand the community Seeberg.

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