Utzenstorf

Landshut Castle

Utzenstorf is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Geography

Utzenstorf is on 476 m above sea level. M., 9 km south of the town of Solothurn (air line). The village extends into the flat alluvial plain of the river Emme, east of the channelized river course, the Swiss Plateau.

The area of ​​19.0 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the central Bernese Mittelland. Despite its size, the area is almost completely flat; the fertile and intensively farmed and an average of 5 km wide flood plain of the river Emme rises slightly towards the south. The channelized and straightened Emme forms in the west and south, the boundary of the municipality and is accompanied by a narrow belt of forest. To the east of the municipality of soil over a wide agricultural zone extends to a wooded area with the Wald, the New Ischlag and the top wood. To the east of this forest are the traffic network of the A1 motorway and the railway built by 2000 under new route Bern- Olten, along which in parts is the boundary. Only a small area with the Chölfeld, the Lindenrain ( 494 m above sea level. M. ) and the Loonwald lies to the east of corridors. The highest point of Utzenstorf is 498 m above sea level. M. reached in the extreme south of the church ban on the banks of the river Emme. From the municipality surface 1997 10 % came from settlements, 28 % of forest and shrubs, 61% to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.

To Utzenstorf (M. 485 m above sea level. ) Include the districts of Landshut (472 m above sea level. M. ), Schachen ( 474 m above sea level. M. ) and Ey ( 478 m above sea level. M. ) on the western edge of the village, the hamlet in Altwiden Altwidenfeld south of the village as well as numerous individual farms. Neighboring communities of Utzenstorf are Koppigen, Niederösch, Oberösch, Ersigen, Kirchberg, Aefligen, Bätterkinden, Wiler bei Utzenstorf and Zielebach.

Population

With 4156 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Utzenstorf one of the larger municipalities in the canton of Bern. Of the residents 95.5 % are German, 0.7 % and 0.7 % speak Italian albanischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Utzenstorf amounted in 1850 to 1651 inhabitants (then largest municipality in the administrative district ), 1900 to 1843 inhabitants. During the 20th century the population grew steadily, with the highest growth rates were recorded during the 1960s. 1970 were counted 3191 inhabitants.

Economy

Utzenstorf has long been a predominantly coined by agriculture village. Today, the municipality offers around 1,800 jobs. With 10 % of workers who are still employed in the primary sector, agriculture has still a certain role in the occupational structure of the population. On the fertile soils farming, vegetable growing and fruit-growing is mainly operated. The forestry contributes to the income of the community. About 46 % of the workforce are employed in the industrial sector, while the service sector, 44% of workers in united (as of 2001).

The main companies in the paper are Utzenstorf Utzenstorf AG, KR Pfiffner AG, Utzenstorf, and Steffen -Ris AG. In addition, there are over 100 small and medium sized companies in the fields of construction and transport industry, food processing, computer science, electrical engineering, woodworking, gardening and mechanical workshops.

New housing estates developed since the 1960s, especially in the eastern and southern edge of Utzenstorf.

Traffic

The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. It is located on a link road from Bätterkinden to Burgdorf respectively after Koppigen. The nearest links to the A1 ( Bern- Zurich ) is located approximately 7 km from the town center. On May 26, 1875, the railway line from Burgdorf to Solothurn was taken with a station in Utzenstorf in operation. For the dispersion in public transport is a bus line that serves the route of Koppigen via Utzenstorf and Bätterkinden after measuring provides.

History

The territory of Utzenstorf can look back on a very long urban tradition. On the slight elevations of Bürglenhubel, Lindenrain Bach and Telemann Brünnen spearheads and other remains from the Neolithic period have been found. From the Bronze Age grave mound with rich grave goods derives ( including a belt chain ). Only a few individual finds allow the conclusion that the area was sparsely populated during the Roman period.

The first documentary mention of the place was already in the year 949 and 1009 under the name Uranestorfus. Later, the names Uzonsdorf ( 1182 ), Hucenstorff ( 1282), Uzzestorf ( 1314), Utzansdorf ( 1329 ), Utzenstorf ( 1345 ) and Utzistorf ( 1362 ) published. The name goes back to the Old High German personal name Uzzo or Uzzi and thus means village of Uzzo / Uzzi.

Since its first mention Utzenstorf was the center of the eponymous county ( comitatus Uranestorfus ), which belonged to the Kingdom of Upper Burgundy. The Zähringerplatz built in the 12th century, probably on the site of a Burgundian previous building a new castle, the castle Landshut. This later went to a kyburgisches Ministerialengeschlecht that called itself by Uzansdorf. In the late 14th century, the rule of Landshut was pledged with Utzenstorf to various creditors of Kyburg.

1413 acquired the Bernese Rudolf von Ringoltingen this rule, but was now on the high justice in the Bernese bailiwick cheeks. With the sale of the reign of Landshut in 1514 the village came under direct Bernese rule. The old dominion was converted to the bailiwick of Landshut, which also Bätterkinden, Wiler included in next Utzenstorf Utzenstorf and Zielebach. As the seat of the provincial governor was the Landshut Castle.

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) Utzenstorf belonged during the Helvetic Republic to the district of Burgdorf and from 1803 to Oberamt Mrs. Fountain, received the status of an office district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831.

During the Second World War, the cantonal government planned the building of the Swiss central airport Utzenstorf in the vast plain to the south of the village. However, the project failed because of the resistance of the population and in 1945 it was abandoned in favor of Zurich Airport.

Attractions

The Reformed Church of Saint Martin in the late Gothic style is from 1522. At the site of several previous buildings, this church some older parts, including the front tower of 1457 was rebuilt under inclusion. It contains valuable coats of arms from the time of the early Renaissance. The parsonage in which Jeremias Gotthelf had spent his youth, was built in 1727.

In the center numerous characteristic farmhouses with hipped roofs and granaries are ( partly still covered with straw ) from the 17th to 19th centuries. On the northern outskirts of the village stands the castle Landshut, the only water castle in the canton of Bern, in a large landscaped park.

Personalities

  • Jakob Steiner, mathematicians
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