Uebeschi

Uebeschi is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

[3] The oldest traces of settlements in the area come from scattered neolithic and Bronze Age artifacts.

Part of a wall, ceramic floor tiles, a stone path and coins have been found from the Roman era, indicating that there was a small settlement in the area.

[3] During the Middle Ages the village was part of the court and parish of Thierachern in the Strättligen Herrschaft.

While there is a Ministerialis (unfree knights in the service of a feudal overlord) family von Uebeschi, there are no records that connect them to the village.

In 1528 Bern adopted the new faith of the Protestant Reformation and secularized all the property of the friars.

Under Bernese rule, Uebeschi became part of the low court of Amsoldingen in the district of Thun.

Today, agriculture remains important but about half of the working population commutes to jobs in Bern, Thun or other nearby towns.

It consists of the village of Uebeschi, the hamlet of Kärselen and scattered farmhouses.

Lake Uebeschi after which the village is named lies several hundred meters to the south, however a greater part of it belongs to the neighboring municipalities of Amsoldingen and Höfen.

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

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (660 or 97.3%) as their first language, French is the second most common (8 or 1.2%) and Albanian is the third (6 or 0.9%).

[14] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][15][16] As of  2011[update], Uebeschi had an unemployment rate of 0.69%.

In the tertiary sector; 1 was in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 10.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 25.0% were in the information industry, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 7 or 35.0% were in education and 1 was in health care.

[23] From the 2000 census[update], 490 or 72.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 33 or 4.9% were Roman Catholic.

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.

Lake Uebeschi, looking toward the east