Lyss () is a

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in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of

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. On 1 January 2011, the former municipality of

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 ...

was merged with Lyss.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 19 July 2011

History

Lyss is first mentioned in 1009 as ''Lissa''. The oldest traces of humans in Lyss include

neolithic The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

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and

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items scattered around the municipality. One of the best preserved items is a 6th-century BC

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bronze statue.

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bricks have been found in Kirchhübeli along with

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and

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tombs and the remains of a

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church. A number of graves dating from the 7th Century were discovered at Sonnhalde-Kreuzhöhe. The

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(unfree knights in the service of a

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overlord) family of Lyss is first mentioned in 1185-87 under the Counts of

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-Aarberg. In 1367, Lyss, along with the rest of the land around

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, was transferred to the Counts of Neuchâtel-Nidau. About ten years later, around 1377-79 it was transferred again to the City of

and became part of the Bernese

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of Aarberg. While Bern owned the village of Lyss, a number of nobles and monasteries owned property, farms or rights in the village and surroundings. Until the

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, Lyss had two

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es. The church of St. John the Evangelist was built in the 7th or 8th century. Around 1246 it was replaced with a new church, which was partially renovated in the 15th century. It became the center of an important

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in the second half of the 14th century. After the Reformation it was the only church in Lyss until the current

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church was built in 1934–35. The other church St. Mary's Church at Kirchhübeli which was built on the foundations of a Carolingian church. In the 15th century the church began to fall into disrepair, and during the Reformation it was abandoned and demolished in 1533. For centuries, the meandering

Aare The Aare () or Aar () is the main tributary of the High Rhine (its discharge even exceeds that of the latter at their confluence) and the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland. Its total length from its source to i ...

and Lyssbach rivers flooded Lyss repeatedly. Over the centuries several dams and

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s were built to protect the village. Starting in the 17th century a number of water powered mills, including an oil mill, sawmills, fulling mills and dyeing factories, were built along the river. The first

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(1868–91) diverted the Aare river into

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. This, together with the Lyssbach correction (1911–16) opened up extensive farm land along the old river. The population of Lyss was always greater than in the nearby political and administrative center of Aarberg. However, because of Aarberg's central location and convenient roads Lyss remained a quiet, isolated town. The arrival of the railroad from

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in 1864 and the Jura water correction led to extensive population growth. In 1876, another railway line from

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was built through Lyss. This made the town a rail hub. Built in 1983-86 the Bern-Biel/Bienne

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passed through Lyss and brought increased traffic. In 1866 the ''Käserei- und Kreditgesellschaft Lyss'' (Dairy and Credit Society of Lyss) was founded as a bank to help farmers. By 1880 it had grown into a savings and loan bank which helped fund the expansion of Lyss. With the new rail links, factories began to settle in the town. By 1900 there were factories manufacturing watches, cement products, biscuits, watch crystals, fittings, bricks, cloth and steel. Heavy machinery factories moved in by 1940. The town expanded in 1956 and again in 1979 as businesses and residents moved into Lyss. In 2005 there were 6,035 jobs in a town of about 10,000 people.

Geography

Lyss has an area of . Of this area, or 30.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 33.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 35.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 6.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 14.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 9.6%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.5% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 3.1%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 21.5% is used for growing crops and 7.2% is pastures, while 1.5% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is an administrative and economic center for the surrounding region. Lyss is located at the mouth of the Lyssbach valley on the former right bank of the

river. It consists of the village of Lyss and village sections of Hardern and Eigenacker. Until 1876 it included the settlement of Werdthof, which is now part of Kappelen. Lyss lies on the eastern edge of a wide valley that extends southwest to

Lake Murten Lake Morat or more rarely Lake Murten ( ) is a lake located in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud in the west of Switzerland. It is named after the small bilingual town of Murten/Morat on its southern shore. It is the smallest of the three lakes ...

. West of this valley lie

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and

, and beyond that the

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. The valley is flat and was subject to flooding until 1878, when a major hydraulic engineering project changed the courses of the

and the

Zihl The river Thielle (, ), is a tributary to the Aare, in the Swiss Seeland. The Thielle results from the merging of the Orbe and Talent, northeast of the little city of Orbe in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It flows as a channel northeastwards thro ...

and lowered the level of the three lakes by . In addition, water from the Aare, the

Broye The Broye (; ''Dictionnaire-Dikchenéro: Français-Patois/Patê-Franché''. Société cantonale des patoisans fribourgeois. Fribourg: 2013. p. 87 ) is a 68 km long river, in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud, in Switzerland. It has a watershe ...

, the Zihl, and the Schüss was diverted into the Nidau-Büren Canal and the Hagneck Canal.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Azure a Fleur-de-lys Argent ringed Or on a Mount of 3 Coupeaux Vert.''

Demographics

Lyss has a population () of . , 16.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 9.4%. Migration accounted for 7.9%, while births and deaths accounted for 1.7%.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 4 May 2012 Most of the population () speaks

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(9,072 or 85.1%) as their first language,

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is the second most common (356 or 3.3%) and

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is the third (271 or 2.5%). There are 196 people who speak French and 6 people who speak Romansh. , the population was 49.0% male and 51.0% female. The population was made up of 4,803 Swiss men (40.6% of the population) and 992 (8.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 5,131 Swiss women (43.4%) and 89 (0.8%) non-Swiss women.Statistical office of the Canton of Bern
accessed 4 January 2012 Of the population in the municipality, 2,676 or about 25.1% were born in Lyss and lived there in 2000. There were 4,146 or 38.9% who were born in the same canton, while 1,642 or 15.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 1,865 or 17.5% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 63.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 12%. , there were 4,434 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 5,101 married individuals, 510 widows or widowers and 614 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 5,367 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. There were 1,511 households that consist of only one person and 220 households with five or more people. , a total of 4,533 apartments (93.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 205 apartments (4.2%) were seasonally occupied and 123 apartments (2.5%) 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 13.6 new units per 1000 residents. the average price to rent an average apartment in Lyss was 973.41

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s (CHF) per month (US$780, £440, €620 approx. exchange rate from 2003). The average rate for a one-room apartment was 559.24 CHF (US$450, £250, €360), a two-room apartment was about 723.26 CHF (US$580, £330, €460), a three-room apartment was about 838.08 CHF (US$670, £380, €540) and a six or more room apartment cost an average of 1596.12 CHF (US$1280, £720, €1020). The average apartment price in Lyss was 87.2% of the national average of 1116 CHF.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Rental prices
2003 data accessed 26 May 2010 The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.44%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1020 height:210 PlotArea = top:10 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:11000 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:2000 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:400 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1764 from:start till:567 text:"567" bar:1850 from:start till:1568 text:"1,568" bar:1860 from:start till:1628 text:"1,628" bar:1870 from:start till:2017 text:"2,017" bar:1880 from:start till:2313 text:"2,313" bar:1888 from:start till:2197 text:"2,197" bar:1900 from:start till:2567 text:"2,567" bar:1910 from:start till:3046 text:"3,046" bar:1920 from:start till:3417 text:"3,417" bar:1930 from:start till:3462 text:"3,462" bar:1941 from:start till:3523 text:"3,523" bar:1950 from:start till:4133 text:"4,133" bar:1960 from:start till:5616 text:"5,616" bar:1970 from:start till:8131 text:"8,131" bar:1980 from:start till:8723 text:"8,723" bar:1990 from:start till:9941 text:"9,941" bar:2000 from:start till:10659 text:"10,659"

Twin Town

Lyss is twinned with: *

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Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 28.51% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (23.05%), the FDP (20.5%) and the EVP Party (9.24%). In the federal election, a total of 3,135 votes were cast, and the

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was 40.5%. Lyss is governed by the ''Gemeinderat'', an executive branch with 5 members, one of them elected mayor (''Gemeindepräsident''). The parliament has 47 members and is called ''Grosser Gemeinderat''. The last elections were held in 2009 with the next elections scheduled to be in 2013. The 47 members of the legislative municipal council belong to 8 different political parties, the strongest being the FDP with 11 seats followed by the SVP with 10 and the SPS with 9 seats. The executive municipal council is made up of five members of three different political parties. The FDP and the SPS hold two seats each, the SVP holds one seat. The mayor Andreas Hegg is a member of the FDP.

Economy

, Lyss had an unemployment rate of 2.5%. , there were 54 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 20 businesses involved in this sector. 3,194 people were employed in the

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and there were 153 businesses in this sector. 3,761 people were employed in the

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, with 505 businesses in this sector. the total number of

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jobs was 5,762. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 28, of which 22 were in agriculture and 6 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 2,905 of which 2,228 or (76.7%) were in manufacturing, 30 or (1.0%) were in mining and 567 (19.5%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 2,829. In the tertiary sector; 948 or 33.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 145 or 5.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 181 or 6.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 108 or 3.8% were in the information industry, 159 or 5.6% were the insurance or financial industry, 531 or 18.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 177 or 6.3% were in education and 207 or 7.3% were in health care. , there were 4,242 workers who commuted into the municipality and 3,312 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.3 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 21.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 48.7% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 2,082 or 19.5% were

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, while 6,580 or 61.7% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there were 116 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.09% of the population), there were 12 individuals (or about 0.11% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 476 individuals (or about 4.47% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was

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, and 404 (or about 3.79% of the population) who were

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ic. There were 35 individuals who were

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, 147 individuals who were

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and 7 individuals who belonged to another church. 751 (or about 7.05% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 281 individuals (or about 2.64% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Lyss about 4,289 or (40.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 1,196 or (11.2%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 1,196 who completed tertiary schooling, 72.1% were Swiss men, 18.9% were Swiss women, 5.4% were non-Swiss men and 3.6% were non-Swiss women. The Canton of Bern school system provides two years of obligatory

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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

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. During the 2018–19 school year, there were a total of 1,640 students attending classes in Lyss. There were 269 kindergarten students in the municipality. Of the kindergarten students, 21.2% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 28.6% have a different mother language than the classroom language. The municipality had 857 primary students of which, 23.1% were not citizens and 28.8% have a different mother language. During the same year, there were 419lower secondary students of which 21.0% were not citizens and 19.1% have a different mother language than the classroom language. The remaining 95 attended special classes. , there were 166 students in Lyss who came from another municipality, while 251 residents attended schools outside the municipality. Lyss is home to the ''Gemeindebibliothek Lyss'' (municipal library of Lyss). The library has () 22,002 books or other media. It was open a total of 224 days with average of 20 hours per week during that year.

Transportation

The municipality has three railway stations: , , and . Between them there is regular service to , , , , and .

Notable people

Ernst Albert Gäumann Ernst Albert Gäumann (6 October 1893 – 5 December 1963) was a Swiss botanist and mycologist who made contributions to plant pathology. As professor and director of the Institute for Special Botany at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

(1893 in Lyss – 1963) a Swiss botanist and mycologist * Werner Zimmermann (born 1915) a retired Swiss slalom and sprint canoeist, competed in the

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* Margrit von Dach (born 1946 in Lyss) is a Swiss author and translator German Wiki, Margrit von Dach * Paolo Collaviti (born 1978 in Lyss) a Swiss football player, currently plays for

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* Junior Strous (born 1986) a Dutch racing driver and racing team owner, lives in Lyss

References

External links

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