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Ipsach
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Ipsach
Total population
3,940
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Ipsach is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
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History
Ipsach is first mentioned around 1265-66 as Ipzacho. The area around Ipsach was often settled during the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Hallstatt eras. The former bogs and peat moss near the village are full of prehistoric artifacts. During the Roman era, there was a small town near what is now Oberdorf-Buchseefeld and the remains of a Roman road to Petinesca has been discovered in the Ipsachmoos. By the Late Middle Ages there were two settlements in the area, the farm of Ipsach and the settlement of Wiler. The settlements were part of the Herrschaft of Nidau but St. Alban's Monastery in Basel also owned land and rights in Ipsach. In 1335, the owner of the Herrschaft, the Knight Cuno von Sutz sold Ipsach and Wiler to the Counts of Neuchâtel-Nidau. Ownership of the settlements were inherited by the town of Fribourg in 1382 and then passed to Bern in 1398. Under Bernese rule, Ipsach and Wiler were part of the bailiwick of Nidau. Over the following centuries the population of Wiler shrunk and by 1551 it was listed as just a farm. Soon thereafter it was completely abandoned and fell into ruin. The inhabitants of the village farmed and fished in Lake Biel. The Jura water correction project of 1868-91 lowered the water level in the lake and opened up a strip of marshy land to agriculture. The village's location along the lake made it easy for residents to reach the towns of Biel and Neuchâtel. In 1916, the Biel-Täuffelen-Ins railroad further connected Ipsach to the surrounding towns. Beginning in the 1950s, Ipsach became a suburb of Biel and its population began to grow rapidly. In the 1980s a community center, a church and sport facilities were all built for the growing population. In 1989 it became the center of the Ipsach parish. Today many of the residents…
Geography
Ipsach has an area of . As of 2012, a total of or 45.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 3.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 50.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.5% is unproductive land. During the same year, industrial buildings made up 2.6% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 30.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 8.9%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 6.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 37.7% is used for growing crops and 6.3% is pastures.
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Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
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Notable people from here
People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.
Nearby places in Bern
- Bellmund0.7 mi away · pop. 1,546
- Port1 mi away · pop. 3,898
- Sutz-Lattrigen1.2 mi away · pop. 1,358
- Alfermée1.5 mi away
- Merzligen1.8 mi away · pop. 405
- Biel/Bienne2 mi away · pop. 56,378
- Magglingen2.1 mi away · pop. 574
- Mörigen2.1 mi away · pop. 888
- Brügg BE2.3 mi away · pop. 4,543
- Aegerten2.7 mi away · pop. 1,781
- Wingreis2.8 mi away
- Epsach3 mi away
Geography & sun
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
- 739
- Population (Wikidata)
- 3,979
- Wikidata
- Q69460
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