Limpach, Switzerland

Limpach
Former municipality of Switzerland
Limpach village Swiss Reformed church
Coat of arms
Limpach
Location of Limpach
Coordinates: 47°7′N 7°30′E / 47.117°N 7.500°E / 47.117; 7.500Coordinates: 47°7′N 7°30′E / 47.117°N 7.500°E / 47.117; 7.500
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Bern
District	Bern-Mittelland
Area
• Total	4.4 km2 (1.7 sq mi)
Elevation	473 m (1,552 ft)
Population (Dec 2011)
• Total	354
• Density	80/km2 (210/sq mi)
Postal code	3317
SFOS number	0542
Surrounded by	Aetingen (SO), Bätterkinden, Büren zum Hof, Fraubrunnen, Mülchi, Schalunen, Unterramsern (SO)
Website	www.limpach.ch SFSO statistics

Limpach is a former municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Limpach, Büren zum Hof, Etzelkofen, Grafenried, Mülchi, Schalunen and Zauggenried merged into the municipality of Fraubrunnen.

Limpach is first mentioned in 1276 as Limpach.

Several prehistoric grave mounds have been discovered at In Ischlag. During the 13th century the village and the low court right were both owned by Fraubrunnen Abbey. After Bern accepted the Protestant Reformation in 1528 and secularized the Abbey and its lands, the village came under Bernese control. It was placed under the bailiwick of Fraubrunnen. The high court over the village was originally part of the Counts of Kyburg's Burgundian territories. In 1406 Bern acquired the Kyburg lands and placed the village under the high court in Zollikofen. The village was rebuilt after a fire in 1836.

The village church was first mentioned in 1276. It was replaced in 1808 by a new building. The patronage rights to the church were originally held by the Ministerialis (unfree knights in the service of a feudal overlord) family of Senn von Münsingen who sold it to the Solothurn Schilling family in 1390. The Schillings traded it to the hospital in Solothurn in 1431. In 1539, after the village accepted the Protestant Reformation, the patronage rights were traded to Bern.