Rapperswil is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

in the Seeland administrative district in the

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of Bern in Switzerland. It lies north of the capital Bern. On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of

Ruppoldsried Ruppoldsried is a former municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 Ruppoldsried merged into Rapperswil.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 14 January 2013 On 1 January 2016 the former municipality of

Bangerten Bangerten is a former municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016 it was absorbed into Rapperswil. History Bangerten is first mentioned in 1263 as ''Bongarthen''. Roman coins ...

merged into Rapperswil.

History

Rapperswil is first mentioned in 1241 as ''Raverswiler''. The oldest trace of a settlement in Rapperswil is a

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settlement or estate on the site of the current village church. This, together with a foundation at Unteren Leenwald, money at Moosaffoltern (coins) and brick fragments at Holzhäusern indicate that there were scattered small settlements here during the Roman era.

Grave mounds A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or ''kurgans'', and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones buil ...

and a

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earthen fort show that the area remained settled after the collapse of the Roman Empire. The village was originally part of the Zähringen lands. After the Zähringen family died out, it was inherited by the Kyburgs. Starting in 1262, the low court rights and pieces of property were gradually sold or gifted to

Frienisberg Abbey Frienisberg Abbey is a former Cistercian religious house in the Swiss municipality of Seedorf in the Canton of Bern. History In 1131 Count Udelhard of Saugern granted his land at Frienisberg to the Cistercian Lützel Abbey. In 1138, the Lütz ...

and other monasteries. The lower court rights were held by a number of monasteries. The court in Rapperswil and Wierezwil was held by Frienisberg Abbey, Seewil and Moosaffoltern by

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 ...

, Bittwil by

Fraubrunnen Fraubrunnen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Büren zum Hof, Etzelkofen, Grafenried, Limpach, Mülchi, Schalunen and Za ...

and Frauchwil by the Cathedral chapter of St. Vinzenz in Bern. Dieterswil-Zimlisberg-Zuzwil had their own court in the community. The high court for all the villages was held by the Kyburg bailiffs until 1406, when it went to the District Court in

Zollikofen Zollikofen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is a suburb of the city of Bern. It is home to the Swiss College of Agriculture (SHL). Geography Zollikofen has an area of . Of ...

. In 1528, these villages came under Bernese control and the various lower courts were divided among five bailiffs. They were first united in 1803 in the Aarberg District. A village priest was first mentioned in 1241. In 1263, the Kyburgs granted the church to Frienisberg Abbey. The old church was replaced by a new building in 1860-62. The

parsonage A clergy house is the residence, or former residence, of one or more priests or ministers of religion. Residences of this type can have a variety of names, such as manse, parsonage, rectory or vicarage. Function A clergy house is typically ow ...

is located on the foundations of a medieval sanctuary. In 1849-52 the Bern-Buren road was built which helped tie the isolated farming villages together into a community. The population in the municipality declined from 1850 to 1940 as the farms changed from growing crops to dairy farming and became increasingly mechanized. However, agriculture remained an important part of the economy. In 2005, just over one-quarter of all jobs in the municipality were in agriculture. In addition to agriculture, there are several small businesses and a brick factory in Rapperswil.

Ruppoldsried

Ruppoldsried is first mentioned in 1279 as ''Ruopolsriet''. During the

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the village was owned by the von Ergeuw family from Burgdorf. The family is mentioned in 1373 during a dispute over land use near the village. At some time before 1506, Konrad von Ergeuw sold the village to Bern. Under Bernese control Ruppoldsried was placed under the control and low court of

Mülchi Mülchi is a former municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Mülchi, Büren zum Hof, Etzelkofen, Grafenried, Limpach, Schalunen and Z ...

. It was part of the high court of

. The residents were part of 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 or ...

Messen Messen is a municipality in the district of Bucheggberg, in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland. On 1 January 2010 the municipalities of Balm bei Messen, Brunnenthal and Oberramsern merged into the municipality of Messen. History Messen i ...

in Solothurn. In the 16th century, when Messen embraced the

Protestant Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

and adopted the Reformed faith, Ruppoldsried followed. Beginning in the 19th century local farmers began to raise dairy cattle along with traditional agriculture. The village dairy was built in 1884. Today Ruppoldsried and Messen form an intercantonal school district. The village has regular

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service from Bern and

Lyss Lyss () is a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2011, the former municipality of Busswil bei Büren was merged with Lyss.Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD * Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lett ...

coins A coin is a small, flat (usually depending on the country or value), round piece of metal or plastic used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in order to ...

have been found in Bangerten. In the 13th and 14th Centuries the

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bought out most of the earlier land owners, including the Burgdorf Family von

Steffisburg Steffisburg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of Schwendibach merged into the municipality of Steffisburg. History Steffisburg is first ...

. Following the

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of the monasteries (1528), Bangerten became part of the ''

Landvogtei During the Middle Ages, an (sometimes given as modern English: advocate; German: ; French: ) was an office-holder who was legally delegated to perform some of the secular responsibilities of a major feudal lord, or for an institution such as ...

'' of Münchenbuchsee. The municipality has remained generally agrarian. In 1990, 24 of the 42 workers in the village worked in agriculture. Due to agreements with neighboring municipalities, the small municipality has been able to function with limited local infrastructure. Bangerten shares the

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and welfare office with

Etzelkofen Etzelkofen is a former municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Etzelkofen, Büren zum Hof, Grafenried, Limpach, Mülchi, Schalunen an ...

, a primary school with

Scheunen Scheunen is a former municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Scheunen and Münchringen merged into the municipality of Jegenstorf.

and a secondary school with Rapperswil.

Geography

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Rapperswil has an area of . Of the area before the 2016 merger, or 62.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 28.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.1%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 49.1% is used for growing crops and 12.3% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. It lies on the Rapperswil Plateau in the

Swiss Plateau The Swiss Plateau or Central Plateau (german: Schweizer Mittelland; french: plateau suisse; it, altopiano svizzero) is one of the three major landscapes in Switzerland, lying between the Jura Mountains and the Swiss Alps. It covers about 30% of ...

and stretches between the valleys of the Limpach in the north and the

Lyss Lyss () is a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2011, the former municipality of Busswil bei Büren was merged with Lyss. There are ten communities within the municipality: *Rapperswil (), at the entrance of the Wilbach stream, with the hamlet Habanger () west of the Wilbach, population 583. *Wierezwil () on the western plateau, with the hamlet Rüberi (), population 164. *Frauchwil () in the valley of the Hohschwerzibach stream, population 81. *Zimlisberg () on the eastern plateau, with the hamlet Holzhäusern (), population 121. *Bittwil () on the plateau south of the Limpach, population 68. *Vogelsang () in a clearing in the Buechwald forest, population 58. *Seewil () on the plateau between the Hardwald forest and Äckenberg, population 209. *Dieterswil () on the plateau north of Äckenberg, population 262. *Moosaffoltern () on the plateau south of Oberholzes, in the Moossee valley, population 90. *Lätti () in the northern valley branch of the Moossee valley, population 449.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Per fess Argent and Gules in chief a Crow passant Sable.''

Demographics

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Rapperswil has a population () of . , 4.1% 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 4.4%. Migration accounted for 4%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.9%.
accessed 11-May-2012 Most of the population () speaks

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(1,898 or 95.4%) as their first language,

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ...

is the second most common (28 or 1.4%) and

Albanian Albanian may refer to: *Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular: ** Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans **Albanian language **Albanian culture **Demographics of Albania, includes other ethnic groups within the countr ...

is the third (14 or 0.7%). There are 7 people who speak

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

and 1 person who speaks Romansh. , the population was 50.9% male and 49.1% female. The population was made up of 1,030 Swiss men (48.8% of the population) and 45 (2.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 995 Swiss women (47.1%) and 41 (1.9%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 740 or about 37.2% were born in Rapperswil and lived there in 2000. There were 829 or 41.7% who were born in the same canton, while 233 or 11.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 129 or 6.5% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 22.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60.5% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.3%. , there were 810 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,025 married individuals, 94 widows or widowers and 61 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 200 households that consist of only one person and 77 households with five or more people. , a total of 748 apartments (92.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 47 apartments (5.8%) were seasonally occupied and 16 apartments (2.0%) were empty.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 , the construction rate of new housing units was 2.4 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.31%.

Historic Population

The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1100 height:500 PlotArea = top:10 left:100 bottom:90 right:100 Legend = columns:3 left:220 top:70 columnwidth:160 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:2500 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:500 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:100 start:0 Colors= id:RA value:yellowgreen legend:Rapperswil id:RU value:green legend:Ruppoldsried id:BA value:blue legend:Bangerten PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:30 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from: 0 till:1987 text:"1,987" color:RA bar:1860 from: 0 till:1860 text:"1,860" color:RA bar:1870 from: 0 till:1911 text:"1,911" color:RA bar:1880 from: 0 till:1876 text:"1,876" color:RA bar:1890 from: 0 till:1810 text:"1,810" color:RA bar:1900 from: 0 till:1681 text:"1,681" color:RA bar:1910 from: 0 till:1632 text:"1,632" color:RA bar:1920 from: 0 till:1660 text:"1,660" color:RA bar:1930 from: 0 till:1612 text:"1,612" color:RA bar:1940 from: 0 till:1649 text:"1,649" color:RA bar:1950 from: 0 till:1743 text:"1,743" color:RA bar:1960 from: 0 till:1783 text:"1,783" color:RA bar:1970 from: 0 till:1730 text:"1,730" color:RA bar:1980 from: 0 till:1718 text:"1,718" color:RA bar:1990 from: 0 till:1854 text:"1,854" color:RA bar:2000 from: 0 till:1990 text:"1,990" color:RA bar:1850 from: 1987 till:2303 text:"316" color:RU bar:1860 from: 1860 till:2147 text:"287" color:RU bar:1870 from: 1911 till:2208 text:"297" color:RU bar:1880 from: 1876 till:2123 text:"247" color:RU bar:1890 from: 1810 till:2025 text:"215" color:RU bar:1900 from: 1681 till:1898 text:"217" color:RU bar:1910 from: 1632 till:1847 text:"215" color:RU bar:1920 from: 1660 till:1867 text:"207" color:RU bar:1930 from: 1612 till:1843 text:"231" color:RU bar:1940 from: 1649 till:1845 text:"196" color:RU bar:1950 from: 1743 till:1948 text:"205" color:RU bar:1960 from: 1783 till:1992 text:"209" color:RU bar:1970 from: 1730 till:1911 text:"181" color:RU bar:1980 from: 1718 till:1901 text:"183" color:RU bar:1990 from: 1854 till:2043 text:"189" color:RU bar:2000 from: 1990 till:2241 text:"251" color:RU bar:1850 from: 2303 till:2483 text:"180" color:BA bar:1860 from: 2147 till:2309 text:"162" color:BA bar:1870 from: 2208 till:2371 text:"163" color:BA bar:1880 from: 2123 till:2330 text:"207" color:BA bar:1890 from: 2025 till:2229 text:"204" color:BA bar:1900 from: 1898 till:2126 text:"228" color:BA bar:1910 from: 1847 till:2042 text:"195" color:BA bar:1920 from: 1867 till:2041 text:"174" color:BA bar:1930 from: 1843 till:2030 text:"187" color:BA bar:1940 from: 1845 till:2021 text:"176" color:BA bar:1950 from: 1948 till:2144 text:"196" color:BA bar:1960 from: 1992 till:2160 text:"168" color:BA bar:1970 from: 1911 till:2052 text:"141" color:BA bar:1980 from: 1901 till:2048 text:"147" color:BA bar:1990 from: 2043 till:2184 text:"141" color:BA bar:2000 from: 2241 till:2399 text:"158" color:BA

Sights

The entire village of Bangerten is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

Politics

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 41.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the BDP Party (18.6%), the SPS (14.3%) and the

Green Party A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence. Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundati ...

(8%). In the federal election, a total of 892 votes were cast, and the

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was 55.0%.Swiss Federal Statistical Office 2011 Election
accessed 8 May 2012

Economy

, Rapperswil had an unemployment rate of 0.91%. , there were a total of 717 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 187 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 66 businesses involved in this sector. 263 people were employed in the

secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructio ...

and there were 30 businesses in this sector. 267 people were 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 secon ...

, with 65 businesses in this sector. there were a total of 557

full-time equivalent Full-time equivalent (FTE), or whole time equivalent (WTE), is a unit that indicates the workload of an employed person (or student) in a way that makes workloads or class loads comparable across various contexts. FTE is often used to measure a ...

jobs. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 117, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 245 of which 162 or (66.1%) were in manufacturing and 79 (32.2%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 195. In the tertiary sector; 60 or 30.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 10 or 5.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 35 or 17.9% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 1.0% were in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 29 or 14.9% were technical professionals or scientists, 31 or 15.9% were in education and 8 or 4.1% were in health care. , there were 211 workers who commuted into the municipality and 728 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.5 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 18.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 50.5% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 140 or 7.0% were

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, while 1,587 or 79.7% belonged to the

Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), (EKS); french: Église évangélique réformée de Suisse (EERS); it, Chiesa evangelica riformata in Svizzera (CERiS); rm, Baselgia evangelica refurmada da la Svizra (BRRS) formerly named Federation o ...

. Of the rest of the population, there were 8 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.40% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 53 individuals (or about 2.66% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 2 individuals (or about 0.10% of the population) who were

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, and 15 (or about 0.75% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 10 individuals who were Hindu and 1 individual who belonged to another church. 123 (or about 6.18% of the population) belonged to no church, are

agnostic Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. (page 56 in 1967 edition) Another definition provided is the view that "human reason is incapable of providing sufficie ...

atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

, and 75 individuals (or about 3.77% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Rapperswil about 794 or (39.9%) of the population have completed non-mandatory

upper secondary education Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale. Level 2 or lower secondary education (less commonly junior secondary education) is considered the second and final ph ...

, and 283 or (14.2%) have completed additional higher education (either

university A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...

or a ''

Fachhochschule A ''Fachhochschule'' (; plural ''Fachhochschulen''), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied ar ...

''). Of the 283 who completed tertiary schooling, 70.0% were Swiss men, 25.4% were Swiss women, 3.5% were non-Swiss men. The Canton of Bern school system provides one year of non-obligatory

Kindergarten Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th cent ...

, 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 ...

. During the 2009-10 school year, there were a total of 370 students attending classes in Rapperswil. There were 2 kindergarten classes with a total of 40 students in the municipality. Of the kindergarten students, 5.0% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 22.5% have a different mother language than the classroom language. The municipality had 8 primary classes and 143 students. Of the primary students, 6.3% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 8.4% have a different mother language than the classroom language. During the same year, there were 10 lower secondary classes with a total of 187 students.Schuljahr 2010/11 pdf document
accessed 4 January 2012 , there were 64 students in Rapperswil who came from another municipality, while 77 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

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