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Dotzigen
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Dotzigen
Total population
1,573
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Dotzigen is a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
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History
Dotzigen is first mentioned in 1182 as Tocingen. The earliest trace of settlements in Dotzigen are six Hallstatt grave mounds on the Dotzigenberg. This was followed by a Roman era settlement near the current village center. During the Middle Ages it was part of the Herrschaft of Strassberg, which was acquired in 1393 by Bern. It was part of the low court of Diesbach in the bailiwick of Büren. The village church of St. Mauritius was first mentioned in 1242. After the Protestant Reformation, in 1531, it came under Bernese control and the parish was immediately dissolved. At first the village was part of the parish of Büren and then later of Diessbach. The village was along the Büren-Aarberg road and the inhabitants traded produce to those towns and operated a rest station. The Jura water correction projects of the 19th century helped prevent flooding and destruction in the village. In 1876 the Solothurn-Lyss railroad connected the village to those larger cities. Easy transportation links allowed commercial and industrial developments in Dotzigen. A distillery opened in 1888, followed by a brick factory in 1891 and a Parketterie furniture factory in 1898. Despite the presence of an agricultural cooperative and a metal foundry, in 2000 over two-thirds of the labor force commuted to towns such as Biel, Lyss and Grenchen. The historic Schlössli outside the village was built in 1898 by the brick manufacturer Johann Schaller.
Geography
Dotzigen has an area of . Of this area, or 55.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 26.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 14.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 2.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 1.2% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 7.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.8%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.4%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 46.2% is used for growing crops and 7.3% is pastures, while 2.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
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Nearby places in Bern
- Meienried1.4 mi away · pop. 52
- Scheuren1.4 mi away · pop. 540
- Busswil1.7 mi away · pop. 1,905
- Schwadernau1.8 mi away · pop. 662
- Studen BE1.9 mi away · pop. 3,510
- Büren an der Aare2 mi away · pop. 3,356
- Meinisberg2.7 mi away · pop. 1,309
- Brügg BE3 mi away · pop. 4,543
- Oberwil bei Büren3.2 mi away · pop. 912
- Pieterlen3.8 mi away · pop. 3,821
- Grossaffoltern3.8 mi away · pop. 2,948
- Port4.1 mi away · pop. 3,898
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Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Official Identifiers
BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- BFS-Nr
- 386
- Population (Wikidata)
- 1,457
- Wikidata
- Q69861
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