Sutz-Lattrigen

Aerial view of Sutz and Lattrigen villages

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Sutz-Lattrigen

Location of Sutz-Lattrigen

Coordinates: 47°6′N 7°13′E / 47.100°N 7.217°ECoordinates: 47°6′N 7°13′E / 47.100°N 7.217°E

Country

Area

• Total

3.6 km² (1.4 sq mi)

Elevation

450 m (1,480 ft)

Population (Dec 2015)

• Total

1,400

• Density

390/km² (1,000/sq mi)

Postal code

2572

SFOS number

0750

Surrounded by

Bellmund, Hermrigen, Ipsach, Mörigen, Tüscherz-Alfermée, Twann

Website

www.sutz-lattrigen.ch
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Sutz-Lattrigen is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is home to a number of Neolithic and Bronze Age lake shore archeological sites, including one that is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The municipality is situated on the shore of Lake Biel. In 2007, the remains of the oldest known building in Switzerland – a pile dwelling dated to 3863 BC – were discovered in the lake near Sutz-Lattrigen. The shoreline was occupied by a Corded ware culture settlement through the Neolithic and into the Bronze Age. In 2011 the remains of the settlement was included in an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Sutz village is first mentioned in 1228 as Soz. In 1262 or 1263 it was mentioned as Souz. Lattrigen village was first mentioned in 1270 as Lattringun. During the Middle Ages the villages were both part of the lands of the Counts of Neuchâtel-Nidau. In 1398, the two villages and much of the surrounding area were acquired by the city of Bern. A number of local patrician families and monastic houses owned land or rights in Sutz and Lattrigen over the following century. Gradually, the Abbeys of St. Alban in Basel, Frienisberg, Gottstatt and the Münchenbuchsee Commandery acquired most of the land. However, in 1528, Bern adopted the new faith of the Protestant Reformation and secularized all the Abbeys' lands, bringing Sutz and Lattrigen under direct Bernese control. Following the 1798 French invasion, Sutz-Lattrigen became part of the Helvetic Republic district of Seeland. With the 1803 Act of Mediation it became part of the district of Nidau.

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