Albligen
Albligen (former French name: Albenon) is a former municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2011, the former municipalities of Wahlern and Albligen merged into the new municipality of Schwarzenburg.
History
Albligen is first mentioned in 1346 as Alblingen.[1]
Geography
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Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 0.0% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. 32.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 26.6% is used for growing crops and 27.7% is pastures, while 1.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.[2]
Albligen lies in the midland of a small bank in the Höchi hills (Script error: No such module "convert". above sea level). On the eastern edge of the municipality flows the Sense River.
The neighboring municipalities are Ueberstorf, Wahlern, and Heitenried.
Demographics
Albligen has a population (as of 31 December 2010) of 477.[3] As of 2007[update]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., 3.2% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -5.7%. Most of the population (as of 2000[update]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) speaks German (97.5%), with French being second most common ( 1.4%) and Romanian being third ( 0.4%).
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 50% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (19.3%), the Green Party (9.6%) and the local small left-wing parties (7.8%).
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Albligen has an unemployment rate of 0.75%. As of 2005[update]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., there were 59 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 20 businesses involved in this sector. 16 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 7 businesses in this sector. 27 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 10 businesses in this sector.[4] The historical population is given in the following table:[1]
| year | population |
|---|---|
| 1850 | 694 |
| 1960 | 421 |
| 1990 | 442 |
References
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- ↑ Swiss Federal Statistical Office - STAT-TAB Script error: No such module "webarchive"., online database – Datenwürfel für Thema 01.2 - Bevölkerungsstand und -bewegung Template:In lang accessed 29 September
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