Oberdiessbach

Sister cities

• Kardašova Řečice
• Féchy

History

Oberdiessbach is first mentioned in 1218 as Tiecebac. Until 1870 it was known as Diessbach. The village was settled rather later than many of the nearby villages. In 1880 a medical spa resort was built in the village. The spa eventually closed and the building is now an apartment complex. Even after the spa was built, the village remained isolated. In 1908 a Postauto route was established which connected Bleiken with Oberdiessbach. Today, over half of the working population commutes to jobs in Oberdiessbach and nearly three-quarters of the jobs in the village are in agriculture or small business.

Geography

Oberdiessbach has an area of . As of 2012, a total of or 51.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 39.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land. During the same year, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.2%. Out of the forested land, 38.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 16.9% is used for growing crops and 27.5% is pastures, while 1.9% is used for orchards or vine crops and 4.7% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Kiesental (Kiesen Valley) between Kurzenberg, Falkenfluh and Hube. It includes the village of Oberdiessbach and the communities of Glasholz and Hauben. Since January 2010 it has included Aeschlen and since 2014, Bleiken bei Oberdiessbach.

Most-observed species

• Meadow Brown

  Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  3,648
• Annual Fleabane

  Erigeron annuus (L.) Pers. · Magnoliopsida
  3,174
• Southern Damselfly

  Coenagrion mercuriale (Charpentier, 1840) · Insecta
  3,032
• European roe deer

  Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  2,571
• Small Tortoiseshell

  Aglais urticae (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  2,211
• Red Admiral

  Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  2,208
• Ringlet

  Aphantopus hyperantus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  2,093
• Eurasian beaver

  Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 · Mammalia
  1,821

Most recent

• M 4.1 — 2025-07-21
  4 km E of Frutigen, Switzerland
• M 4.2 — 2024-06-04
  2 km NNW of Unteriberg, Switzerland
• M 3.2 — 2024-05-09
  9 km SW of Evolène, Switzerland
• M 4.4 — 2023-03-22
  1 km NW of Pont-de-Roide, France
• M 3.9 — 2022-09-10
  1 km WSW of Zimmersheim, France
• M 2.7 — 2022-08-23
  4 km S of Turtmann, Switzerland