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Burgistein
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Burgistein
Total population
1,094
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Overview
Burgistein is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
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History
Burgistein is first mentioned in 1266 as Burgstein and in 1271 as Burgenstein. Burgistein has always been part of the parish of Thurnen, even after the village church was built in 1959. Beginning in the 1970s the municipality began to gradually change from farming communities into bedroom communities for the nearby cities of Bern and Thun.
Geography
Burgistein has an area of . As of 2012, a total of or 76.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 13.0% is forested. The rest of the municipality is or 9.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.8% is either rivers or lakes. During the same year, housing and buildings made up 5.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.5%. A total of 10.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 31.7% is used for growing crops and 41.0% is pasturage, while 3.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
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Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
Climate
Air quality
Walkability
Amenities nearby
Wildlife & biodiversity
Earthquake history
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Notable people from here
People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Public attention
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Books about this place
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Official Identifiers
BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- BFS-Nr
- 863
- Population (Wikidata)
- 1,096
- Wikidata
- Q66393
Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image
- • BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771