Thörigen

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

Geography

Thörigen is located on 483 m above sea level. M., 2.5 km southeast of Herzogenbuchsee and 6 km southwest of the town of Langenthal ( straight line ). The crossroads village stretches between the level of Altachentals on the northern edge of the Molassehügellandes Buchsiberge, in the Upper Aargau.

The area of ​​4.5 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the northern Bernese Mittelland. The central part of the area is occupied by Altachental, a 1 to 1.5 km wide plain which is drained west to Oenz and once formed a melt water channel at the edge of the glacial Rhone Glacier.

To the south of the municipality floor extends to the heights of the forest Buchsiberge, which are divided by the valley of the Stauffenbachs and its eastern tributary of the Duppental. The Stauffenbach in the level of Thörigen steps out at the upper village and joins west of the village with the Altache. West of Stauffenbachtals the forests of Mättenberg (570 m above sea level. M. ) and Humberg (up to 584 m above sea level. M. ), to the east of it are the Duppentalwald and Bützbergwald, in the 590 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Thörigen is achieved. In the north the Altachental is flanked by the slightly undulating moraine at Herzogenbuchsee. The municipality extends ban on the amount of equity ( 525 m above sea level. M. ) to the edge of the upper forest. From the municipality surface 1997 12 % came from settlements, 36 % was on forest and shrubs, 51% to agriculture and slightly less than 1% of unproductive land.

To Thörigen include the settlements Oberdorf ( 497 m above sea level. M. ) at the entrance to the Stauffenbachtal between Mättenberg and Bützbergwald and Mättenberg (505 m above sea level. M. ) in Stauffenbachtal between Mättenberg and Duppentalwald as well as some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Thörigen are Thunstetten, lead Bach, Ochlenberg, Bettenhausen and Herzogenbuchsee.

Population

With 1023 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Thörigen one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Bern. Of the residents 97.9 % are German, 0.4 % French-speaking and 0.4 % speak English (as of 2000). The population of Thörigen amounted in 1850 to 718 residents in 1900 to 650 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated always in the range 640-700 people. Since 1960 (691 inhabitants) a significant population increase was recorded.

Economy

Thörigen was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, agriculture and fruit growing and cattle breeding and forestry an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In Thörigen today operations of the construction and transportation industry, the electrical industry, horticulture, woodworking, machine laundry and company are represented for the production of precision turned parts. In recent decades, the village has developed through the construction of new neighborhoods on the northern edge of the Altachenebene into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the region Langenthal - Herzogenbuchsee.

Traffic

The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. It lies on the main road from Burgdorf to Langenthal, which is here crossed by the main road of Herzogenbuchsee to Huttwil. By bus, which operates direct flight from Herzogenbuchsee to Langenthal, Thörigen is connected to the public transport network.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1270 under the name Thoerinen. Later, the names Thurinon ( 1295), Thorinon ( 1312), Töringen (1320 ) and Thöringen ( 1452 ) published. The etymology of the place name is uncertain. You may Thörigen is derived from the Latin personal name taurinus.

In the Middle Ages Thörigen was under the Barons of Aarburg who sold their rights in 1429 to the town of Burgdorf. The village was assigned to the controlled Burgdorf bailiwick Lotzwil, but the high court was incumbent always (since 1460 also regulated by contract ) the Bernese bailiff in cheeks. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) Thörigen belonged 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

The village has preserved many characteristic farmhouses of the Bernese country style from the 18th and 19th centuries. The Gasthof Löwen is from 1816. Thörigen possessed formerly a chapel Ulrich, but it always belonged to parish Herzogenbuchsee.