Diemerswil is a former
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the
Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the
canton of
Bern in
Switzerland. On 1 January 2023 the former municipality of Diemerswil merged to form the municipality of
Münchenbuchsee
Münchenbuchsee is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is famous as the birthplace of the painter Paul Klee.
On 1 January 2023 the former municipality of Diemerswil merged to f ...
.
History
Diemerswil is first mentioned in 1257 as ''Diemarswile''.
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The earliest trace of people in the area is a Hallstatt culture grave mound with a cart or wagon, in the Brandwald. During the Middle Ages it belonged to the '']Herrschaft
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'', court and parish
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of the Münchenbuchsee Commandery
The Münchenbuchsee Commandery was a medieval commandery of the Knights Hospitaller in the Swiss municipality of Münchenbuchsee in the Canton of Bern.
History
During the 12th century, the area around Münchenbuchsee was part of the lands of th ...
. After the Commandery was secularized in 1528, the village became part of the Bernese bailiwick of Münchenbuchsee. In 1803 it became part of the district of Fraubrunnen.[
During the 19th century, many of local farmers began to raise dairy cattle instead of or in addition to their traditional crops. The village school was built in 1827, but students still have to travel to ]Münchenbuchsee
Münchenbuchsee is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is famous as the birthplace of the painter Paul Klee.
On 1 January 2023 the former municipality of Diemerswil merged to f ...
for secondary school. The so-called ''Schloss'', an elegant country manor house, was demolished in 1969. The village has remained generally rural and agricultural. In 2000 almost half of all working residents worked in agriculture. At the same time about half the residents commuted for work in other communities, especially Bern.[
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Geography
Diemerswil has an area of . Of this area, or 72.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 19.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.9% is settled (buildings or roads).[Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics]
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.1%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 58.4% is used for growing crops and 11.9% is pastures, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops.[
Diemerswil is located on the south east side of the Moos Lake valley and includes the ]hamlets
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of Dörfli, Kohlholz, Mettlen, Moos, Riedmatt and Wydacker. It belongs to the parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one o ...
and greater community
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(''Gemeindeverband'') of Münchenbuchsee.
On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Fraubrunnen, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland.[Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz]
accessed 4 April 2011
Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Per fess Gules a Cross Argent and of the second a Rose of the first barbed, seeded, slipped and leaved proper.''
Demographics
Diemerswil has a population () of . , 1.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals.[Statistical office of the Canton of Bern]
accessed 4 January 2012 Over the last 10 years (2000-2010) the population has changed at a rate of 21.1%. Migration accounted for 9.4%, while births and deaths accounted for 9.9%.
accessed 21 December 2012German
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** Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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**Ge ...
(163 or 97.6%) as their first language, French is the second most common (3 or 1.8%) and Portuguese
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* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
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*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
is the third (1 or 0.6%).[
, the population was 51.2% male and 48.8% female. The population was made up of 103 Swiss men (50.2% of the population) and 2 (1.0%) non-Swiss men. There were 99 Swiss women (48.3%) and 1 (0.5%) non-Swiss women.][ Of the population in the municipality, 60 or about 35.9% were born in Diemerswil and lived there in 2000. There were 76 or 45.5% who were born in the same canton, while 20 or 12.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 8 or 4.8% were born outside of Switzerland.][
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 28.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 57.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 14.1%.][
, there were 76 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 81 married individuals, 7 widows or widowers and 3 individuals who are divorced.][STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 15 households that consist of only one person and 8 households with five or more people. , a total of 61 apartments (93.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 3 apartments (4.6%) were seasonally occupied and one apartment was empty.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen]
accessed 28 January 2011
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Politics
In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Swiss People's Party (SVP) which received 38.1% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP) (13.2%), the Social Democratic Party (SP) (11%) and the Green Party
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Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation f ...
(11%). In the federal election, a total of 106 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
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was 73.6%.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office 2011 Election]
accessed 8 May 2012
Economy
, Diemerswil had an unemployment rate of 0.67%. , there were a total of 62 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 43 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 13 businesses involved in this sector. 5 people were employed in the secondary sector
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and there were 2 businesses in this sector. 14 people were employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 4 businesses in this sector.[ There were 97 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.2% of the workforce.
there were a total of 39 ]full-time equivalent
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jobs. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 27, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 5, all of which were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 7. In the tertiary sector; 4 or 57.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry and 2 were in education.
, there were 6 workers who commuted into the municipality and 59 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 9.8 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 15.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 44.3% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 5 or 3.0% were Roman Catholic
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, while 132 or 79.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 23 individuals (or about 13.77% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. 12 (or about 7.19% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 5 individuals (or about 2.99% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Diemerswil about 81 or (48.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 32 or (19.2%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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or a '' Fachhochschule''). Of the 32 who completed tertiary schooling, 62.5% were Swiss men, 37.5% were Swiss women.[
The Canton of Bern school system provides one year of non-obligatory ]Kindergarten
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, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship
Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading). Apprenticeships can also enable practitioners to gain a ...
.[Schuljahr 2010/11 pdf document]
accessed 4 January 2012
, there were 5 students in Diemerswil who came from another municipality, while 15 residents attended schools outside the municipality.[
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References
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