Busswil

Geography

Busswil is located on the old Aare river, the part of the Aar river that still flows from Aarberg to Büren after the river was corrected in the 19th century to stop the flooding which had been completely inundating Busswil since ancient times. In those days the Celts from neighbouring villages to the north used the "Obererer Weg" to travel to the market town of Lyss. Also of note is the ancient oak tree in the middle of a field next to the Länggasse, at which Napoleon is said to have rested with his troops on the way back from his Austrian campagne. Busswil has a bakery, a post office, two small supermarkets (Co-Op and Denner), a tea-room, a hotel (Rössli), restaurant (Bahnhof), and a railway station. The neighbouring municipalities are Büetigen, Worben, Studen and Lyss. Busswil bei Büren has an area, , of . Of this area, or 51.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 28.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 19.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings make up 2.0% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 8.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.5%. 28.2% of the total land area is heavily forested with oak, birch and beech trees but sadly much of this will be destroyed by the politically influential Vigier Beton gravel and sand company who are extending the area of their excavations. Of the agricultural land, 44.6% is used for growing crops and 5.6% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. Most of the water in the municipality is in rivers, streams or underground springs of excellent quality (used as drinking water by several houses along the Länggasse) but the springs will also soon be destroyed by…

Most-observed species

• European roe deer

  Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  13,327
• red fox

  Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  8,789
• Meadow Brown

  Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  5,066
• European hare

  Lepus europaeus Pallas, 1778 · Mammalia
  4,331
• Small Tortoiseshell

  Aglais urticae (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  3,920
• Eurasian beaver

  Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 · Mammalia
  3,788
• Annual Fleabane

  Erigeron annuus (L.) Pers. · Magnoliopsida
  3,593
• Red Admiral

  Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  3,460

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