Seeberg is a

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in the Oberaargau administrative district in the

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. The lake Burgäschisee is located on the border with

Aeschi Aeschi is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. Burgäschisee is a lake in the forest on the border with Seeberg. Geography Aeschi has an area, , of . Of this area, or 63.2% is used for agri ...

. On 1 January 2016 the former municipality of

Hermiswil Hermiswil is a former municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016 it merged into the municipality of Seeberg.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 3 February 2016

History

Hermiswil

Hermiswil is first mentioned in 1289 as ''Hermanswile''. During the 13th and 14th Centuries, the Hermiswil area had been granted by the Kyburg family to the vom Stein family. In 1466, the city of

Solothurn Solothurn ( ; ; ; ; ) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is located in the north-west of Switzerland on the banks of the Aare and on the foot of the Weissenstein Jura mountains. The town is ...

inherited all the vom Stein holdings, including Hermiswil. Following the ''Wyniger Vertrag'', of 1665, the village was given to Bern. It was placed under the authority for

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from

Bollodingen Bollodingen is a former municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2011 it was merged with the municipality of Bettenhausen. History Bollodingen is first mentioned in 1266 as ''Bol ...

and administered by the

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of Wangen. The

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citizens of Hermiswil were placed under the guidance of the

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. While the village is located along two transportation routes (the road from Bern into the Aargau, and since 1857 the rail line from

Olten Olten (; High Alemannic: ''Oute'') is a town in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland and capital of the district of the same name. Olten grew into a town during the Middle Ages at the location of a bridge over the Aare. After a period of de ...

to Bern) it has remained a small farming community.

Oschwand

Painter

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lived the second part of his life in this hamlet of Seeberg. He died there.

Geography

Before the merger, Seeberg has an area of . Of this area, 58.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 34% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 6.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

Demographics

Seeberg has a population (as of ) of . , 2.0% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -2.4%. Most of the population () speaks German (97.5%), with Turkish being second most common ( 0.7%) and French being third ( 0.5%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 49.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (14.5%), the

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(8.9%) and the FDP (8.7%). SeebergBE Reformierte Kirche 01

The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 14.7%. In Seeberg about 77.1% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory

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or additional higher education (either university or a ''

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''). Seeberg has an unemployment rate of 0.69%. , there were 157 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 59 businesses involved in this sector. 77 people are employed in the

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and there are 21 businesses in this sector. 138 people are employed in the

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, with 34 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 22-Jul-2009

References

External links

* {{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Bern