Tägertschi is a former
municipality
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in the
Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the
canton
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of
Bern
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in
Switzerland
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. On 1 January 2017 the former municipality of Tägertschi merged into the municipality of
Münsingen
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.
History
Tägertschi is first mentioned in 1273 as ''Tegersche''.
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For most of their history, the village of Tägertschi along with the settlements of Stalden and Ämligen were part of the ]parish
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and municipality of Münsingen
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. Eventually Ämligen and Stalden im Emmental (now part of Konolfingen
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History
Konolf ...
) formed an independent political municipality. However, in 1923, Ämligen (which at that time had about 35 residents) voted to separate themselves from Stalden and form a new municipality with Tägertschi.[
A railway station on the ]Bern
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- Langnau was completed near Tägertschi in 1864. Today it is located on the municipal border between Tägertschi and Konolfingen. Many of the workers in the municipality commute to jobs in nearby cities, though there are several small factories in the municipality.[
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Geography
Tägertschi has an area of . As of 2012, a total of or 78.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 15.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.2% is settled (buildings or roads).[Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics]
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
During the same year, housing and buildings made up 2.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 61.3% is used for growing crops and 12.6% is pastures, while 4.1% is used for orchards or vine crops.[
The municipality is located between the ]Aare
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and Emme river valleys. It consists of the village of Tägertschi, the neighborhoods of Station and Ämligen as well as scattered farm houses.
On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Konolfingen, 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 ''Gules a Chief and a Pale Argent between a Vine Grape slipped Or in dexter and Corn Ear of the last in sinister.''
Demographics
Tägertschi has a population () of . , 2.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2001-2011) the population has changed at a rate of 0%. Migration accounted for -1%, while births and deaths accounted for 1.2%.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office]
accessed 13 May 2013
Most of the population () speaks German
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(331 or 98.5%) as their first language, English
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is the second most common (2 or 0.6%) and Albanian
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is the third (2 or 0.6%).[
, the population was 51.0% male and 49.0% female. The population was made up of 203 Swiss men (49.0% of the population) and 8 (1.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 199 Swiss women (48.1%) and 4 (1.0%) non-Swiss women.][Statistical office of the Canton of Bern]
accessed 4 January 2012 Of the population in the municipality, 102 or about 30.4% were born in Tägertschi and lived there in 2000. There were 183 or 54.5% who were born in the same canton, while 33 or 9.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 13 or 3.9% were born outside of Switzerland.[
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 63% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 11.6%.][
, there were 165 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 149 married individuals, 13 widows or widowers and 9 individuals who are divorced.][STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 31 households that consist of only one person and 17 households with five or more people. , a total of 119 apartments (93.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 4 apartments (3.1%) were seasonally occupied and 5 apartments (3.9%) 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 1.19%.
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 37.3% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP) (15.6%), the Social Democratic Party (SP) (10%) and the Green Party
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(8.3%). In the federal election, a total of 190 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
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was 60.3%.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office 2011 Election]
accessed 8 May 2012
Economy
, Tägertschi had an unemployment rate of 0.9%. , there were a total of 126 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 54 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 19 businesses involved in this sector. 48 people were employed in the secondary sector
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and there were 6 businesses in this sector. 24 people were employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 7 businesses in this sector.[ There were 202 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.6% of the workforce.
there were a total of 98 ]full-time equivalent
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jobs. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 40, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 41 of which 26 or (63.4%) were in manufacturing and 16 (39.0%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 17. In the tertiary sector; 6 or 35.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 11.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 4 or 23.5% were in education and 4 or 23.5% were in health care.
, there were 59 workers who commuted into the municipality and 132 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.2 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 18.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 46% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 281 or 83.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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, while 24 or 7.1% were Roman Catholic
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. Of the rest of the population, there were 20 individuals (or about 5.95% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 4 (or about 1.19% of the population) who were Islam
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ic. 15 (or about 4.46% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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, and 1 individuals (or about 0.30% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Tägertschi about 142 or (42.3%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education
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, and 51 or (15.2%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). Of the 51 who completed tertiary schooling, 76.5% were Swiss men, 21.6% 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
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.[Schuljahr 2011/12 pdf document]
accessed 9 May 2013
, there were a total of 42 students attending any school in the municipality, of which 40 both lived and attended school in the municipality. During the same year, there were 2 students in Tägertschi who came from another municipality, while 17 residents attended schools outside the municipality.[
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Notable people
* Alisha Lehmann
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(born 1999), footballer for the Switzerland national team and Juventus
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References
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Former municipalities of the canton of Bern