Noflen

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Noflen

Location of Noflen

Coordinates: 46°48′N 7°33′E / 46.800°N 7.550°ECoordinates: 46°48′N 7°33′E / 46.800°N 7.550°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Fritz Dähler

Area

• Total

2.72 km² (1.05 sq mi)

Elevation

630 m (2,070 ft)

Population (Dec 2015)

• Total

304

• Density

110/km² (290/sq mi)

Postal code

3116

SFOS number

0878

Surrounded by

Burgistein, Kienersrüti, Kirchdorf, Seftigen, Uetendorf

Website

www.thun-west.ch/region/noflen_09.htm
SFSO statistics

Noflen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Noflen is first mentioned in 1250 as Novelon.

Very little is known about the early history of the village. By the 13th and 14th centuries a number of monasteries and patrician families owned rights or land in Noflen. The monasteries probably expanded their power in the village over the following centuries. However, in 1528 Bern adopted the new faith of the Protestant Reformation and forcibly secularized monastery lands. Most likely this is when Noflen was acquired by Bern. The village has always been part of the parish of Kirchdorf. Today the residents of the village mostly raise dairy cattle and farm.

Noflen has an area of 2.72 km² (1.05 sq mi). As of 2012, a total of 2.21 km² (0.85 sq mi) or 81.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.37 km² (0.14 sq mi) or 13.6% is forested. The rest of the municipality is 0.16 km² (0.062 sq mi) or 5.9% is settled (buildings or roads).

During the same year, housing and buildings made up 3.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%. All of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 47.8% is used for growing crops and 26.8% is pasturage, while 6.6% is used for orchards or vine crops.

The municipality is a scattered settlement with an upper and lower village on the Terrasse above the Gürbetal (Gürbe valley), while part of the municipality is on the valley floor. Since 1948 the hamlet of Stoffelsrüti (in 1941 it had a population of 41) stopped being an exclave of Jaberg and joined Noflen.

The municipalities of Gelterfingen, Gerzensee, Kirchdorf, Mühledorf and Noflen are considering a merger on 1 January 2017 into the new municipality with an, as of 2014^[update], undetermined name.

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