Albligen (former French name: Albenon) is a former

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in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of

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. On 1 January 2011, the former municipalities of

Wahlern Wahlern is a former municipalities of Switzerland, municipality of the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Bern (canton), Bern in Switzerland and seat of the Bern-Mittelland (administrative district), Bern-Mittelland administrative district. On 1 Ja ...

and Albligen merged into the new municipality of

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History

Albligen is first mentioned in 1346 as ''Alblingen''.

Geography

Albligen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 56.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 34.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.4% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 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. Albligen lies in the midland of a small bank in the ''Höchi'' hills ( above sea level). On the eastern edge of the municipality flows the Sense River. The neighboring municipalities are Ueberstorf,

, and Heitenried.

Demographics

Albligen has a population (as of 31 December 2010) of 477.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - STAT-TAB
, online database – ''Datenwürfel für Thema 01.2 - Bevölkerungsstand und -bewegung'' accessed 29 September , 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 () 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%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 26.5% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60.5% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13%. In Albligen about 74.4% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a ''

Fachhochschule A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a Hochschule, German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, te ...

''). Albligen has an unemployment rate of 0.75%. , 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 The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the ...

, with 10 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 13-Jul-2009 The historical population is given in the following table:

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* {{Authority control Former municipalities of the canton of Bern Populated places disestablished in 2011