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Krattigen
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Krattigen
Total population
1,155
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Krattigen is a municipality in the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
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History
Krattigen is first mentioned around 1300 as Krattingen. The earliest trace of a settlement in the area is a Late Bronze Age axe which was discovered at Krattigengraben. During the Middle Ages, Rotenbühl Castle was built near the village. The castle does not appear in any contemporary record and only the moat is still visible today. The village was first mentioned as a part of the Herrschaft of the Freiherr of Eschenbach. By 1300 it was a fief of the Lords of Corbières. Soon thereafter it became a fief of the Bernese Schultheiss Kuno Muenzer. After the regicide of King Albert I of Germany by his nephew John Parricida in 1308, the Austrian Habsburgs advanced a claim on Krattigen. The Bernese Scharnachtal family began buying the rights to the area in 1366 and in 1483 they finally owned the entire village. However, in 1513, Bern acquired the village and placed it under their representative at Mülenen. Later Bern placed the village under Frutigen. Historically the village was part of the large parish of Aeschi. A filial church was eventually built in Krattigen. Traditionally the local economy was based on agriculture and seasonal alpine herding. In the 18th century a gypsum mine opened near the village. Today the mine is part of the Leissigen gypsum factory. Small businesses and tourism began to make inroads into the village during the 20th century. While the municipality lacks a connection to the Swiss Federal Railways network, almost three-quarters of the working population commute to jobs outside the municipality.
Geography
Krattigen has an area of . Of this area, or 37.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 50.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 1.0% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.8%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.5% of the area Out of the forested land, 45.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 26.7% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops and 9.3% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.
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Geography
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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
- Faulensee1.7 mi away
- Mülenen2.1 mi away
- Leissigen2.3 mi away · pop. 1,100
- Merligen2.5 mi away
- Reichenbach im Kandertal3.1 mi away · pop. 3,723
- Scharnachtal3.4 mi away
- Beatenberg3.5 mi away · pop. 1,227
- Sundlauenen3.7 mi away
- Därligen4 mi away · pop. 359
- Wimmis4.3 mi away · pop. 2,314
- Kiental5 mi away · pop. 100
- Saxeten5.3 mi away · pop. 128
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
- 566
- Population (Wikidata)
- 1,132
- Wikidata
- Q65953
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