Tschugg

Copper and bronze waste and fragments from a foundry have been found at Riedernacker, though it is impossible to determine the age of the scrap.

In 1678 the Steiger family acquired the Berseth estate and the village.

In 1889, it was converted into the Bethesda Hospital, a clinic for neurological rehabilitation.

[3] The meadow between Tschugg village and Foferen was drained in 1885 and developed.

After the Protestant Reformation in 1528, the Abbey's land was secularized and the village came under Bernese control.

It became an independent political municipality in 1832 but the population remained low.

In 1946 the residents of Mullen voted to join the political municipality of Tschugg.

Of the rest of the land, 0.36 km2 (0.14 sq mi) or 10.9% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes.

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Seeland.

[7] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a Sickle Argent handled Or.

[11] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (471 or 90.2%) as their first language, French is the second most common (18 or 3.4%) and Albanian is the third (9 or 1.7%).

The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] The former Landgut (country manor house) Steiger is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

In the federal election, a total of 153 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 48.0%.

[11] There were 232 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 47.0% of the workforce.

[11] From the 2000 census[update], 65 or 12.5% were Roman Catholic, while 345 or 66.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude.

Following the lower Secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship.

[19] During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 41 students attending classes in Tschugg.

The former Landgut Steiger