Ochlenberg

Geschichte

Ochlenberg is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.HistoryOchlenberg is first mentioned in 1612 as Ochliberg.GeographyOchlenberg has an area, of 12.13km2. Of this area, 7.61km2 or 62.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.93km2 or 32.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.52km2 or 4.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02km2 or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.7%. Out of the forested land, 31.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 31.2% is used for growing crops and 29.2% is pastures, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.DemographicsOchlenberg has a population of., 1.0% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -11.9%. Most of the population speaks German (99.4%), with French being second most common ( 0.5%) and Russian being third ( 0.2%).In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 65.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CSP (9.9%), the SPS (6.8%) and the Green Party (6.6%).