Gurbrü (french: Corbruil) is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of

Bern german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese , neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen , website ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

History

Gurbrü is first mentioned in 1214 as ''Gurbru''. During the Middle Ages Gurbrü village was part of the ''

Herrschaft The German term ''Herrschaft'' (plural: ''Herrschaften'') covers a broad semantic field and only the context will tell whether it means, "rule", "power", "dominion", "authority", "territory" or "lordship". In its most abstract sense, it refers ...

'' of Oltigen. In 1410/12, the city of

absorbed the entire ''Herrschaft'', including Gurbrü. The village was always part of the

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

Kerzers Kerzers is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of See (district of Fribourg), See in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Fribourg (canton), Fribourg in Switzerland. Its French language, French name is Chiètres (; frp, ...

. During the

Protestant Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

, in 1528, both municipalities converted to the new faith and Gurbrü remained part of the Kerzers parish. In 1793, it fought with the neighboring communities, in the

Canton of Fribourg The canton of Fribourg, also canton of Freiburg (french: Canton de Fribourg ; german: Kanton Freiburg ; frp, Canton de Fribôrg rm, Chantun Friburg it, Canton Friburgo) is located in western Switzerland. The canton is bilingual, with French ...

, over the ''Gurbrümoos''

moor Moor or Moors may refer to: Nature and ecology * Moorland, a habitat characterized by low-growing vegetation and acidic soils. Ethnic and religious groups * Moors, Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during ...

. The ''Gurbrümoos'' is now part of the Bernese municipality of

Kallnach Kallnach (french: Chouchignies) is a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2019 the former municipality of Golaten merged into the municipality of Kallnach. History Kallnach i ...

. After the 1798 French invasion, Golaten remained part of the Canton of Bern, despite attempts by the

to annex it. In 1901 the Bern- Neuchatel railroad built a station in the municipality.

Geography

Gurbrü has an area of . As of 2012, a total of or 70.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 9.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 19.0% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 During the same year, housing and buildings made up 7.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 11.4%. Out of the forested land, 8.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 54.3% is used for growing crops and 13.6% is pastures, while 2.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. Gurbrü lies in the

Swiss plateau The Swiss Plateau or Central Plateau (german: Schweizer Mittelland; french: plateau suisse; it, altopiano svizzero) is one of the three major landscapes in Switzerland, lying between the Jura Mountains and the Swiss Alps. It covers about 30% of ...

on the edge of the

Grosses Moos Grand Marais (german: Grosses Moos) in Seeland is a region in Switzerland, at the foot of the first mountain range of the Jura Mountains contained by the three lakes of Morat (Murten), Neuchâtel and Bienne (Biel). Before the huge hydrologic ...

. It includes the village of Gurbrü and the

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

of Stämpflerei. Stämpflerei, until 1854, belonged to

Ried bei Kerzers Ried bei Kerzers (french: Essert; frp, Èssèrts ) is a municipality in the district of See, within the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Cant ...

in the

. Gurbrü lies on the A13; however there is not an on-ramp in the municipality. The Kerzers– Gümmenen railroad runs through Gurbrü; however, the nearest station is in

Ferenbalm Ferenbalm (french: Les Baumettes) is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. History Ferenbalm is first mentioned in 1123 as ''villa de Balmis''. Since the 16th Century it was called ...

. From Ferenbalm it is possible, via Bern Flamatt or Bern Bümplitz, to get to

. Normally travellers are recommended to use the good railway connections in four directions from

. From 1963–1981 there was a land improvement program to enlarge the land parcels used in agriculture. On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Laupen, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 4 April 2011

Coat of arms

The

blazon In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The vis ...

of the municipal

coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central ele ...

is ''Azure a Ploughshare Argent and Mount of 3 Coupeaux Vert.''

Demographics

Gurbrü has a population () of . , 11.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2001-2011) the population has changed at a rate of -2.4%. Migration accounted for -1.6%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.4%.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 29 May 2013 Most of the population () speaks

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ger ...

(231 or 97.1%) as their first language, French is the second most common (5 or 2.1%) and

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

is the third (2 or 0.8%). , the population was 54.4% male and 45.6% female. The population was made up of 119 Swiss men (47.6% of the population) and 17 (6.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 103 Swiss women (41.2%) and 11 (4.4%) non-Swiss women.Statistical office of the Canton of Bern
accessed 4 January 2012 Of the population in the municipality, 92 or about 38.7% were born in Gurbrü and lived there in 2000. There were 79 or 33.2% who were born in the same canton, while 58 or 24.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 6 or 2.5% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 53.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 23%. , there were 95 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 122 married individuals, 16 widows or widowers and 5 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 22 households that consist of only one person and 11 households with five or more people. , a total of 90 apartments (86.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 6 apartments (5.8%) were seasonally occupied and 8 apartments (7.7%) were empty.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width: auto height:200 barincrement:45 PlotArea = top:20 left:35 bottom:20 right:35 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:280 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:60 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:12 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width: 35 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1764 from:start till:135 text:"135" bar:1850 from:start till:277 text:"277" bar:1860 from:start till:262 text:"262" bar:1870 from:start till:270 text:"270" bar:1880 from:start till:264 text:"264" bar:1888 from:start till:265 text:"265" bar:1900 from:start till:229 text:"229" bar:1910 from:start till:247 text:"247" bar:1920 from:start till:230 text:"230" bar:1930 from:start till:204 text:"204" bar:1941 from:start till:247 text:"247" bar:1950 from:start till:247 text:"247" bar:1960 from:start till:235 text:"235" bar:1970 from:start till:214 text:"214" bar:1980 from:start till:216 text:"216" bar:1990 from:start till:222 text:"222" bar:2000 from:start till:238 text:"238"

Politics

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Swiss People's Party (SVP) which received 52.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP) (13.7%), the Social Democratic Party (SP) (8.1%) and the

FDP.The Liberals french: PLR.Les Libéraux-Radicaux it, PLR.I Liberali Radicali rm, PLD.Ils Liberals , logo = , caption = Logo of the party in French, German, and Italian , leader1_title = President , leader1_name = Thierry Burkart ...

(6.1%). In the federal election, a total of 112 votes were cast, and the

voter turnout In political science, voter turnout is the participation rate (often defined as those who cast a ballot) of a given election. This can be the percentage of registered voters, eligible voters, or all voting-age people. According to Stanford Unive ...

was 59.6%.Swiss Federal Statistical Office 2011 Election
accessed 8 May 2012

Economy

, Gurbrü had an unemployment rate of 0.69%. , there were a total of 125 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 112 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 15 businesses involved in this sector. 2 people were employed in the

secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in construction. ...

and there was 1 business in this sector. 11 people were employed in the

tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the second ...

, with 6 businesses in this sector. There were 143 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.8% of the workforce. there were a total of 69

full-time equivalent Full-time equivalent (FTE), or whole time equivalent (WTE), is a unit that indicates the workload of an employee, employed person (or student) in a way that makes workloads or class loads comparable across various contexts. FTE is often used to me ...

jobs. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 59, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 2, all of which were in manufacturing. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 8. In the tertiary sector; 5 or 62.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 1 was in education. , there were 12 workers who commuted into the municipality and 95 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 7.9 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 A total of 48 workers (80.0% of the 60 total workers in the municipality) both lived and worked in Gurbrü. Of the working population, 18.9% used public transportation to get to work, and 44.8% used a private car. In 2011 the average local and cantonal tax rate on a married resident of Gurbrü making 150,000 CHF was 13.1%, while an unmarried resident's rate was 19.2%. For comparison, the average rate for the entire canton in 2006 was 13.9% and the nationwide rate was 11.6%.Regionale Disparitäten in der Schweiz - Schlüsselindikatoren
accessed 15 May 2013 In 2009 there were a total of 98 tax payers in the municipality. Of that total, 28 made over 75,000 CHF per year. There was one person who made between 15,000 and 20,000 per year. The greatest number of workers, 38, made between 50 and 75 thousand CHF per year. The average income of the over 75,000 CHF group in Gurbrü was 117,961 CHF, while the average across all of Switzerland was 130,478 CHF.

Religion

From the , 195 or 81.9% belonged to the

Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), (EKS); french: Église évangélique réformée de Suisse (EERS); it, Chiesa evangelica riformata in Svizzera (CERiS); rm, Baselgia evangelica refurmada da la Svizra (BRRS) formerly named Federation o ...

, while 17 or 7.1% were

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...

. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 individuals (or about 1.26% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. 21 (or about 8.82% of the population) belonged to no church, are

agnostic Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. (page 56 in 1967 edition) Another definition provided is the view that "human reason is incapable of providing sufficient ...

atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

, and 2 individuals (or about 0.84% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Gurbrü about 59.7% of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 18.7% have completed additional higher education (either

university A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

or a ''

Fachhochschule A ''Fachhochschule'' (; plural ''Fachhochschulen''), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts ...

''). Of the 27 who had completed some form of tertiary schooling listed in the census, 66.7% were Swiss men, 33.3% were Swiss women. The Canton of Bern school system provides one year of non-obligatory

Kindergarten Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th cent ...

, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an

apprenticeship Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a Tradesman, trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading). Apprenticeships can also enable practitioners ...

. During the 2011-12 school year, there were a total of 24 students attending classes in Gurbrü. There were no kindergarten classes in the municipality. The municipality had 2 primary classes and 24 students. Of the primary students, 12.5% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 8.3% have a different mother language than the classroom language.Schuljahr 2011/12 pdf document
accessed 9 May 2013 , there were a total of 17 students attending any school in the municipality. Of those, 16 both lived and attended school in the municipality, while one student came from another municipality. During the same year, 17 residents attended schools outside the municipality. In Gurbrü about 59.7% of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 18.7% have completed additional higher education (either

or a ''

. During the 2011-12 school year, there were a total of 24 students attending classes in Gurbrü. There were no kindergarten classes in the municipality. The municipality had 2 primary classes and 24 students. Of the primary students, 12.5% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 8.3% have a different mother language than the classroom language. , there were a total of 17 students attending any school in the municipality. Of those, 16 both lived and attended school in the municipality, while one student came from another municipality. During the same year, 17 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gurbru Municipalities of the canton of Bern