Rüti bei Lyssach is a
municipality
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in the administrative district of
Emmental
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in the
canton of
Bern
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in
Switzerland
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.
History
Rüti bei Lyssach is first mentioned in 1341 as ''Ruiti''.
[ The name comes from the ]Old High German
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word meaning clearing. In the Middle Ages
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, the village belonged to the Count of Kyburg. In 1406, Bern gained control of it.
The village church was first mentioned in 1275. After the Protestant Reformation
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the village church became part of a parish
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in Burgdorf, but was also a filial church
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Description
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of the church in Kirchberg. During the Early Modern Period
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, it belonged to the low court of Alchenflüh but paid taxes and belonged to the military district of Burgdorf. After the 1798 French invasion, Lyssach and Rüti merged into a single municipality. Five years later, under the Act of Mediation
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, they divided again and Rüti became independent.[
Starting in the 1960s the population grew as ]amelioration
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opened up new farming land and a freight warehousing business provided new jobs. The Binsberg neighborhood was built to house new arrivals. Farming became less important in the local economy and by 2000 almost three-quarters of the working population commuted to Bern or Burgdorf for work.[
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Geography
Rüti bei Lyssach is located at above sea level, as the crow flies
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Etymology
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west of the district capital Burgdorf. Rüti bei Lyssach has an area of . Of this area, or 84.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 11.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.2% 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 3.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 70.5% is used for growing crops and 11.6% is pastures, while 2.3% is used for orchards or vine crops.[
The small agricultural village is situated in a ]copse
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on the southern edge of the floodplain
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of the Emme Emme may refer to:
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on the base of the molasse
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of the Swiss plateau.
The area includes a cragged portion of the plateau. Most of it consists of the dell
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of Rüti, which is drained by a creek into the Emme. The dell is surrounded by several mountains Räbberg and Binzberg in the north, Büelhölzli in the west, and Schneiteberg in the south. The highest point in Rüti bei Lyssach is located on the northern slope of Schneiteberg with above sea level. To the east the territory of the municipality reaches to the embankment of the Rohrmishubel.
Rüti bei Lyssach is neighbored by Lyssach, Burgdorf, Oberburg and Mötschwil.
On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Burgdorf, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Emmental.[Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz]
accessed 4 April 2011
Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Per pale Sable and Argent a Palm Leaf Vert.''
Demographics
Rüti bei Lyssach has a population () of . , 1.2% 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 4.3%. Migration accounted for 8.7%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.6%.
accessed 21-September-2012German
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(152 or 97.4%) as their first language. French and Spanish
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both have one native speaker.[
, the population was 47.9% male and 52.1% female. The population was made up of 79 Swiss men (47.3% of the population) and 1 (0.6%) non-Swiss men. There were 86 Swiss women (51.5%) and 1 (0.6%) non-Swiss women.][
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 19.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 65.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15%.][
, there were 59 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 86 married individuals, 6 widows or widowers and 5 individuals who are divorced.][STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 12 households that consist of only one person and 6 households with five or more people. , a total of 57 apartments (83.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 10 apartments (14.7%) were seasonally occupied and one apartment was 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 6 new units per 1000 residents.[
The historical population is given in the following chart:]
Politics
In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland (EDU) which received 6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Liberal Party of Switzerland (LPS) (0%), the Liberal Party of Switzerland (LPS) (0%) and the Liberal Party of Switzerland (LPS) (0%).[
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Economy
In the second half of the 19th century, agriculture
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was the most important economic sector. Today, tillage
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, pomiculture, and stock-breeding are still very important for the population of the village. Besides the primary sector
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, there are very few jobs in Rüti bei Lyssach. Many inhabitants commute to Burgdorf.
, Rüti bei Lyssach had an unemployment rate of 2.01%. , there were a total of 29 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 27 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. No one was employed in the secondary sector
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. 2 people were employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 2 businesses in this sector.[
there were a total of 18 ]full-time equivalent
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jobs. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 16, all of which were in agriculture. The remaining 2 were in the tertiary sector of which 1 was in the trade, sale or the repair of motor vehicles.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Betriebszählung: Arbeitsstätten nach Gemeinde und NOGA 2008 (Abschnitte), Sektoren 1-3
accessed 28 January 2011
, there were 66 workers who commuted away from the municipality.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 17.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 41.8% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 12 or 7.7% were Roman Catholic
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, while 136 or 87.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church. 3 (or about 1.92% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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, and 4 individuals (or about 2.56% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Rüti bei Lyssach about 66 or (42.3%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 24 or (15.4%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). Of the 24 who completed tertiary schooling, 83.3% were Swiss men, 16.7% were Swiss women.[
During the 2010-11 school year, there were no students attending school in Rüti bei Lyssach.][Schuljahr 2010/11 pdf document]
accessed 4 January 2012
, there were 21 students from Rüti bei Lyssach who attended schools outside the municipality.[
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Transportation
Rüti bei Lyssach is situated just 500 meters away from the old road from Bern
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via Hindelbank to Burgdorf. The nearest connection to the A1, which goes from Bern to Zürich
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, is about 3 kilometers away from the center of the village. A bus line of the Regionalverkehr Mittelland AG connects Rüti bei Lyssach to Bolligen
Bolligen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district of the canton of Bern, Switzerland.
In the historical center is a twelfth-century church, with a benefice barn and parsonage from the 16th century.
History
Bolligen is fir ...
and Burgdorf.
References
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Municipalities of the canton of Bern