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Utzenstorf
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Utzenstorf
Total population
4,213
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
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Overview
Utzenstorf is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is regionally famous for its medieval castle, Landshut Castle.
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History
Utzenstorf is first mentioned in 1175 as Uzansdorf. During the High Middle Ages the villages were part of the parish of Kirchberg. A village church was probably built in the 11th or 12th century, but it was first mentioned in 1275. A new church, dedicated to St. Martin, was built on the same site in 1457. In 1481, Bern acquired the right to collect tithes from the two villages. The villages adopted the Protestant Reformation when Bern converted. The church became the Reformed parish church over a parish that included the two villages, Wiler bei Utzenstorf and Zielebach. In 1804 the father of the future novelist Albert Bitzius, who would be better known by his pen name Jeremias Gotthelf, became the pastor at Utzenstorf. Young Albert lived in the village until 1812 when he left to continue his education. He returned a few years later and worked as his father's vicar, though he left to be a vicar in Herzogenbuchsee after his father's death in 1824. Many of his novels feature peasants from the Emmental and are probably influenced by his time in Utzenstorf. The municipality remained mostly Protestant, but in 1960 a Roman Catholic church was built in Utzenstorf for the surrounding 24 municipalities. During the 16th century, Utzenstorf began to expand, causing border conflicts and disagreements with neighboring municipalities. It quarreled with Bätterkinden from 1505 until 1526 and with Wiler and Zielebach in 1596. The villages and surrounding fields were often devastated when the Emme flooded. The municipality tried to build levees along the river in the 17th century, but they still suffered floods until the Canton adjusted the river course in 1884. A village school was built in 1892. The Solothurn-Burgdorf Railroad built a rail line and station in Utzenstorf in 1875. The…
Geography
Utzenstorf has an area of . Of this area, or 59.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 26.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 12.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.9% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.8% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 6.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.2%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 50.8% is used for growing crops and 7.4% is pastures, while 1.2% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
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Nearby places in Bern
- Schalunen2 mi away
- Koppigen2.1 mi away · pop. 2,265
- Zielebach2.2 mi away · pop. 335
- Aefligen2.4 mi away · pop. 1,067
- Rüdtligen2.9 mi away
- Oberösch2.9 mi away · pop. 104
- Willadingen2.9 mi away · pop. 203
- Limpach3.3 mi away · pop. 316
- Alchenflüh3.3 mi away
- Fraubrunnen3.4 mi away · pop. 1,607
- Zauggenried4 mi away · pop. 301
- Kernenried4 mi away · pop. 527
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Official Identifiers
BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- BFS-Nr
- 552
- Population (Wikidata)
- 4,331
- Wikidata
- Q67778
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