Tschugg

Tschugg is a municipality in the administrative district in the canton of Bern Seeland in Switzerland. Tschugg is a municipality without a burger or own parish.

Geography

Tschugg situated on a hill of the Jolimont in the Bernese Seeland. The neighboring communities of North Clockwise starting at Gals are, Erlach, ins and Gampelen.

Policy

Community is President Brigitte Walther Abegglen (as of 2010 ).

The voter shares of the parties at the national elections of 2011 were: SVP 28.1 %, BDP 19.4 %, GPS 15.8 %, SP 15.6 %, FDP 6.5 %, CVP 4.3 %, glp 3.8 %, EDU 3.3 %, Jimy Hofer plus 1.1 %, EPP 0.8 %.

History

The clinic is home to Bethesda since 1889 in the former estate Steiger. With several new buildings and extensions it became a major center for neuro-rehabilitation. Today special departments for brain injuries, Parkinson's and epilepsy sufferers are connected. The hospital is the largest employer in the community.

In 1946 the then independent municipality Mullen was merged with Tschugg.

Sport and Leisure

The social life is funded by the voluntary sector, including through the local society and protecting the Swingolfclub.

Linguistic

The place names Tschugg goes back to a same wording genus word ' rock head, big round promontory ' means.

The popular opinion, the term Tschugger for ' policeman ' go back to the Seeland village is not tenable. Linguists suspect it is from Hebrew chockar, ' he peered '. Tschugger would thus passes through the Yiddish slang into and from there into Swiss German, where it means ' policeman ' and / or ' pig '. Except Swiss evidence for the word Tschugger found in the dialects of Germany: Schu ( c ) ker for ' gendarme ' or Schogger, shocker in the Palatinate for ' policeman '.

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