Treiten (french: Treiteron) is a
municipality in the
Seeland administrative district in the
canton
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Arts and ent ...
of
Bern
german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese
, neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen
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in
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
.
History
Treiten is first mentioned in 1221 as ''Treiton''.
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The five hills around the village were the site of a number of ]Mesolithic
The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, ''mesos'' 'middle' + λίθος, ''lithos'' 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymous ...
camps. A number of Neolithic and Bronze Age items have been discovered at Buchholz, Ryfflirain-Riederen and Kanalmühle. Fragments of Roman era bricks were found in the Grammetwald. The village was originally part of the '' Herrschaft'' of Erlach. In 1474 the entire Herrschaft was acquired by Bern
german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese
, neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen
, website ...
. Under Bernese rule, Treiten was part of the Ins INS or Ins or ''variant'', may refer to:
Places
* Ins, Switzerland, a municipality
* Creech Air Force Base (IATA airport code INS)
* Indonesia, ITF and UNDP code INS
Biology
*''Ins'', a New World genus of bee flies
* INS, the gene for the insulin ...
court in the Erlach district. In 1852 the political municipality and the Bürgergemeinde
The Bürgergemeinde (also Burgergemeinde, Ortsgemeinde, Ortsbürgergemeinde, Tagwen, bourgeoisie, commune bourgeoise, vischnanca burgaisa, en, Citizen's Community) is a statutory corporation in public law in Switzerland. It includes all individu ...
of Treiten merged into a single body.[
The agricultural village grew up along the Ins- Aarberg road. In 1647 the Aarberg canal was dug through the village. Almost ten years later, in 1656, a mill was built on the canal. The ]Jura water correction
The correction of the waters of the Swiss Jura consisted of a wide series of hydrological undertakings carried out in Switzerland in the region of the three lakes: Lake Morat connected to Lake Neuchatel by the Broye Canal, the latter connected t ...
project of 1874-83 drained the marshy Grosses Moos
Grand Marais (german: Grosses Moos) in Seeland is a region in Switzerland, at the foot of the first mountain range of the Jura Mountains contained by the three lakes of Morat (Murten), Neuchâtel and Bienne (Biel). Before the huge hydrological ...
and Treiten was assigned of the newly arable land. Between 1945 and 1972 several plans were developed to build the Grosses Moos Intercontinental Airport in the municipalities of Treiten and Finsterhennen. The project was eventually abandoned and the area of the proposed airport reverted to farm land.[
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Geography
Treiten has an area of . Of this area, or 72.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 17.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.4% 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 2.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.5% of the area Out of the forested land, 16.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 69.7% is used for growing crops and 2.5% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.[
The municipality is located at the foot of a ]moraine
A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice shee ...
that crosses the Grosses Moos
Grand Marais (german: Grosses Moos) in Seeland is a region in Switzerland, at the foot of the first mountain range of the Jura Mountains contained by the three lakes of Morat (Murten), Neuchâtel and Bienne (Biel). Before the huge hydrological ...
marsh.
On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Erlach, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Seeland.[Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz]
accessed 4 April 2011
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is ''Argent a bend sinister wavy Azure and overall a Tau Cross couped Sable issuant from a Mount of 3 Coupeaux Vert.'' The Tau cross on the coat of arms is also a "T" which represents the village's name.
Demographics
Treiten has a population () of . , 5.5% 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 5%. Migration accounted for 9%, while births and deaths accounted for -2.3%.
accessed 14 November 2012French
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is the second most common (8 or 2.0%) and Albanian
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is the third (5 or 1.3%).[
, the population was 51.8% male and 48.2% female. The population was made up of 205 Swiss men (48.7% of the population) and 13 (3.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 193 Swiss women (45.8%) and 10 (2.4%) non-Swiss women.][
, children and teenagers (0-19 years old) make up 22.8% of the population, while adults (20-64 years old) make up 60.8% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.4%.][
, there were 148 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 213 married individuals, 29 widows or widowers and 5 individuals who are divorced.][STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 50 households that consist of only one person and 16 households with five or more people. , a total of 152 apartments (93.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 5 apartments (3.1%) were seasonally occupied and 5 apartments (3.1%) were 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 43.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP) (28.2%), the Social Democratic Party (SP) (6.4%) and the Evangelical People's Party (EVP) (4.8%). In the federal election, a total of 190 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 58.8%.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office 2011 Election]
accessed 8 May 2012
Economy
, Treiten had an unemployment rate of 1.81%. , there were a total of 157 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 109 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 22 businesses involved in this sector. 21 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 4 businesses in this sector. 27 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 9 businesses in this sector.[ There were 224 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.9% of the workforce.
there were a total of 120 full-time equivalent jobs. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 80, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 19 of which 2 or (10.5%) were in manufacturing and 17 (89.5%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 21. In the tertiary sector; 10 or 47.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 14.3% were in a hotel or restaurant and 4 or 19.0% were in education.
, there were 9 workers who commuted into the municipality and 118 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 13.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.][Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 5.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 49.6% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 13 or 3.3% were Roman Catholic, while 347 or 87.8% 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 2 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.51% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 34 individuals (or about 8.61% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 5 (or about 1.27% of the population) who were Islam
Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...
ic. 5 (or about 1.27% 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 sufficient ...
or atheist
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, and 5 individuals (or about 1.27% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Treiten about 148 or (37.5%) 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 39 or (9.9%) have completed additional higher education (either university 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 arts ...
''). Of the 39 who completed tertiary schooling, 87.2% were Swiss men, 12.8% were Swiss women.[
The Canton of Bern school system provides one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten, 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.][Schuljahr 2010/11 pdf document]
accessed 4 January 2012
, there was one student in Treiten who came from another municipality, while 17 residents attended schools outside the municipality.[
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References
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Municipalities of the canton of Bern