Niederbipp

Geschichte

Niederbipp is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.HistoryNiederbipp is first mentioned in 968 as Pippa. In 1302 it was mentioned as Nider-Bippe.GeographyNiederbipp has an area, of 17.37km2. Of this area, 8.2km2 or 47.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 6.55km2 or 37.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.64km2 or 15.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.06km2 or 0.3% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.9% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 5.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.0%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.7% of the area Out of the forested land, 36.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 34.1% is used for growing crops and 10.6% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops and 1.2% is used for alpine pastures.The municipality is located on the southern flank of the Jura mountains. It includes the village of Niederbipp, the hamlets of Walde, Holzhüsere and Lehn and scattered individual houses.DemographicsNiederbipp has a population of., 18.0% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 5.1%. Most of the population speaks German (89.0%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 3.1%) and Albanian being third ( 1.8%).