Diessbach bei Büren is a
municipality
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in the
Seeland administrative district in the
canton of
Bern
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in
Switzerland
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.
Diessbach has a
reformed
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church, and is the center of the parish which includes the municipalities
Busswil bei Büren
Busswil bei Büren is a former municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2011 it was merged with the municipality of Lyss.
Geography
Busswil is located on the old Aare river, the pa ...
,
Büetigen
Büetigen is a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
History
Büetigen is first mentioned in 1261 as ''Buetingen''.
The earliest trace of humans in Büetigen are scattered mesolithic and neol ...
and
Dotzigen as well.
History
The earliest traces of human settlement come from the
Mesolithic
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and
Neolithic
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eras. Scattered
Bronze Age
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items and a
La Tene era grave have also been found. During the
Roman era
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there was an estate at Schwerzi-Maueracker and small settlements at Moosacker and Schaliberg.
The town first appeared in historical sources in 1244, under the name ''Diespah''.
[ At that time, the settlement consisted of a few farms and the church, which can be traced back to the seventh century and was also described in 1244.
As part of the Strassberg holdings, Diessbach became part of Bern in 1393 along with Büren an der Aare, which became the administrative district in 1803.
The current village church was built in 1858-59. However, this building had five predecessor buildings stretching back to the 7th or 8th century. It was first mentioned as St. John's Church in 1244.][
Beginning in the early 19th century, the farmers in Diessbach switched to raising dairy cows. By 1830 there were two large dairies in the municipality. There are a few small factories which produce watch parts and wood or metal buildings. Even though there is no rail station in the municipality, many workers commute to ]Lyss
Lyss () is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Seeland (administrative district), Seeland administrative district in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Bern (canton), Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2011, the former municip ...
for their jobs. The municipality has its own primary school.[
]
Geography
Diessbach bei Büren has an area of . Of this area, or 59.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 32.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.8% is settled (buildings or roads).[Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics]
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.7%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 51.0% is used for growing crops and 6.0% is pastures, while 2.5% is used for orchards or vine crops.[
The municipality is located on the northern edge of the Oberwald forest. It consists of the village of Diessbach bei Büren and the neighborhoods of Angel, Eichi and Hübeli.
On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Büren, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Seeland.]
accessed 4 April 2011
Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Gules a Triple Bend wavy fimbriated Sable.'' The wavy stripes represent a stream (), making this an example of canting arms
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.
Demographics
Diessbach bei Büren has a population () of . , 6.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals.[Statistical office of the Canton of Bern]
accessed 4 January 2012 Over the last 10 years (2000-2010) the population has changed at a rate of 6.2%. Migration accounted for 5.6%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.5%.
accessed 20-August-2012Italian
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.[
, the population was 50.4% male and 49.6% female. The population was made up of 420 Swiss men (47.1% of the population) and 29 (3.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 410 Swiss women (46.0%) and 3 (0.3%) non-Swiss women.][
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15.4%.][
, there were 357 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 405 married individuals, 63 widows or widowers and 37 individuals who are divorced.][STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 90 households that consist of only one person and 33 households with five or more people. , a total of 322 apartments (93.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 11 apartments (3.2%) were seasonally occupied and 10 apartments (2.9%) were empty.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen]
accessed 28 January 2011 , the construction rate of new housing units was 11.2 new units per 1000 residents.[ The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.47%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:]
Politics
In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 39.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the BDP Party (19.5%), the SPS (17.9%) and the EVP Party (6.1%). In the federal election, a total of 369 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
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was 57.2%.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office 2011 Election]
accessed 8 May 2012
Economy
, Diessbach bei Büren had an unemployment rate of 1.07%. , there were a total of 250 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 87 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 19 businesses involved in this sector. 78 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 16 businesses in this sector. 85 people were employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 27 businesses in this sector.[
there were a total of 191 ]full-time equivalent
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jobs. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 64, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 72 of which 41 or (56.9%) were in manufacturing and 29 (40.3%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 55. In the tertiary sector; 14 or 25.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 5.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 8 or 14.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 5.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 7 or 12.7% were in education and 10 or 18.2% were in health care.
, there were 133 workers who commuted into the municipality and 325 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 6.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 63% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 78 or 9.0% were Roman Catholic
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, while 646 or 74.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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. Of the rest of the population, there were 2 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.23% of the population), and there were 106 individuals (or about 12.30% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 5 (or about 0.58% of the population) who were Islam
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ic. 49 (or about 5.68% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist
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, and 29 individuals (or about 3.36% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Diessbach bei Büren about 366 or (42.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 86 or (10.0%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). Of the 86 who completed tertiary schooling, 77.9% were Swiss men, 20.9% were Swiss women.[
The Canton of Bern school system provides one year of non-obligatory ]Kindergarten
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, 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
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.[Schuljahr 2010/11 pdf document]
accessed 4 January 2012
, there were 47 students from Diessbach bei Büren who attended schools outside the municipality.[
]
Further reading
* ''Hornerblätter'', from the Vereinigung für Heimatpflege Büren
References
External links
*
Vereinigung für Heimatpflege Büren
Distributor of publications about Diessbach and the Büren district
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Municipalities of the canton of Bern