Sigriswil

Sigriswil is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Geography

The largest part of the community Sigriswil is situated on a sunny terrace above the right bank of Lake Thun. It extends from the shore ( 560m ) uphill to Blueme ( 1392m ) and Sigriswilergrat ( Sigriswiler Rothorn 2051m ). A smaller (posterior ) part of the municipality is located on the northern and eastern slopes of the Blueme and on the western slope of the rear Sigriswilergrats and belongs to the catchment area of the Zulg, which flows into the Aare after tuna.

The municipality comprises the 11 localities: Aeschlen, Gunten, Meiersmaad, Merligen, Ringoldswil, Schwanden Sigriswil, Tschingel ob Gunten, Wiler, Endorf and Reust and the Justis valley. The villages Meiersmaad and Reust are in the rear part of the municipality.

Name

The name Sigriswil is composed of the Old High German personal name Sigiheri or Sigirih and place names ending in- wilari (small village, hamlet ) together.

History

Stone Time Fund in Gunten, Bronze Age finds in Merligen, Gunten, Sigriswil, Ringoldswil Justistal. Place and field names indicate a reclamation in Alemannic time. ( The frequently voiced assertion that the name Tschingel, which comes from the Latin cingulum, prove a cultivation in Roman times, is not tenable. Tschingel is one of the most frequently occurring in the Bernese Oberland Romance loanwords that have been preserved in Alemannic time. Come therefore those words for a settlement history evaluation is not in the 10th century is the area of the municipality into consideration. too, the word Gunten is in the older research wrongly as a word from the Roman period have been referred. Nowadays it is considered Romance loanword Gallic origin considered. ) the Duchy of Swabia, in the 11th century the Kingdom of Upper Burgundy, with which Sigriswil 1033 again come to the kingdom. In the following centuries dependence of the originally free peasants of secular and ecclesiastical landlords. In the 13th century Sigriswil lehnsrechtlich belongs to the barony Oberhofen, after the murder of Albert I of Habsburg ( 1308) with the participation of Walter III. von Eschenbach comes Oberhofen and thus Sigriswil under Austrian rule. 1313 Sigriswil kyburgisches fiefdom, will be sold in 1323 at Bern and received back again as a fief. 1347 will be purchased from the Hochwald shelf ( indebted ) Count Eberhard II of Kyburg castle village ( Sigriswiler freedom letter ); 1406 Bernese rule; to 1471 free dish along with Steffi Burg, then until 1798 own the court. 1627 Inclusion of Justistals in the municipal area. During the Helvetic Republic to Canton Oberland, from 1803-1832 re free trial.

The early church is a pure economic goods and use community; she received the small jurisdiction grundherrschaftlicher administration. In the 15th century there is a strong immigration and the internal partitioning of uransässigen residents against the newcomers. Unlike other regions in the Bernese Oberland, the Reformation was accepted without resistance in Sigriswil. 1650 is done with the Seyordnung the regulation of the relations between old residents and tenants and between the upper villages and the town of Merligen to unclear use of the commons. Since 1690 civic community with personal right to citizenship certificate. Because of the new cantonal law on municipalities in 1832 a new church order ( municipality ) was adopted. However, the new constitution of 1831 left in the community organizing everything the same. The burgers goods remained untouched exist as private property, whereby the newly created municipality lacked the financial resources. 1851, therefore, was the creation of a mixed community reconciliation of interests between burger and municipality; 1868 was finally held the handover of the general good burger at the municipality as well as the dissolution of the civic community. Middle of the 19th century took place party struggles between liberals and conservatives who opposed the Road; 1852 construction of the lake road to Gunten, 1873 extension to Merligen, then gradually expand the road network. In 1908 the Municipal Assembly to contribute financially to a cable car between Gunten and Siriswil. However, the financial cost of a train proved to be too large, and in 1914 it was decided in favor of the automobile traffic. Post and Telegraph reached the town end of the 19th century, telephone communication at the beginning of the 20th century. Other objects of the community in the second half of the 19th century, torrent control, reforestation, surveying, water intakes and school construction. 1898 village fire took place in Merligen, destroyed part of the village.

First Church in Sigriswil. built by Rudolf II of Upper Burgundy ( Strättliger Chronicles ) by 1000; Until the Reformation, belonging to the diocese of Constance; Patronage in the 13th century with the princes of Bremgarten, Burkhard von Unspunnen among others, from 1222 at the Interlaken monastery, after the Reformation in Bern, but with its own choir court. Mid-15th century reconstruction ( late Gothic foundations), 1678/79 in the new type of evangelical preaching church. Further renovations in 1784, 1838, 1866 and 1957. Patron saint St. Gallus. 1937 Inauguration of the Church Merligen. Leave marks on their office addition, the pastor Christoph Pfäfferlin (1555-1565) as a humanist and botanist Gottlieb Jakob Kuhn (1799-1806) as a poet and Karl Howald (1833-1869) as a chronicler.

Agriculture originally Dreifelderwirtschaft with free peasants. Beginning of viticulture on Lake Thun probably in Roman times. Self-sufficiency of the community in the bread and wine. In the 18th century the introduction of grass economy (stall feeding), increased milk production and crop rotation as well as introduction of the potato and decline of agriculture. End of the 18th century caused by degeneration of the vines decline of viticulture. 1851 and 1858 regulate Policy and a new Forest Act forest use and end the exploitation by agriculture. In the 20th century, reduction and enlargement of farms, increase the Kuhbestände and further decline of arable land.

Agriculture remains until the beginning of the 19th century main industry; 1831 introduction of free trade, increase of Hospitality and Commercial; 1858 beginning of tourism (first promotional material ); In the 20th century Sigriswil is not a purely agricultural community more, many earn their merit in the hospitality industry, commerce, trade and transport as well as in the factories in Thun.

Policy

The voting shares of the parties at the national elections of 2011 were: SVP 49.3 %, BDP 15.1 %, SP 10.2 %, FDP 6.1 %, GPS 5.4 %, EDU 3.6 %, glp 3.4 %, EPP 2.9 %, Alps Parliament 1.5 %, CVP 1.0 %.

Traffic

Sigriswil is served by bus routes 21 and 25 of the Public Transportation STI, the former in turn replaced the trains running 1952-1982 trolleybus Thun- Beatenbucht.

Attractions

Pictures

Reformed Church

Plaque Gottlieb Jakob Kuhn

Church vault

Local government

Blaise Cendrars place

Others

The Chästeilet ( bern German for cheese - distribution) is a recurring annual festival in the municipality Sigriswil.

The festival takes place on the Friday before or after the Federal Thanks, Buss and Repentance. The exact date is always set one years in advance by the United Alpgenossenschaften. On " Chästeilet " meet the farmers who have summered their cattle in the Justistal, and share the cheeses produced in summer in relation to milk yield of cows. Even before and during the traditional ritual begins a joyful celebration with yodelling and traditional sounds.

The one in the observatory Drebach (Erzgebirge) discovered dwarf planet ( 104896 ) Its official name Schwanden after Sigriswiler village.

Personalities

Gottlieb Jakob Kuhn (1775-1849), 1799-1806 Vicar in Sigriswil
Charles Howald (1796-1869), 1833-1869 pastor in Sigriswil, author of a seven-volume Sigriswiler Chronicle ( 1844-69 )
Curt Goetz (1888-1960), actor and writer, possessed in Merligen 1927 a holiday home, where he and his wife Valérie von Martens ( 1894-1986 ) from 1933 to 1939 ever lived.
Adrian Amstutz ( born 1953 ), Swiss politician (SVP ), born in Sigriswil and from 1993-98 council president
Christoph Sauser (born 1976 ), Swiss mountain biker

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