Ochlenberg
municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland
Ochlenberg is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
History
Ochlenberg is first mentioned in 1612 as Ochliberg.
Geography
Ochlenberg has an area, as of 2009, of 12.13 square kilometers (4.68 sq mi). Of this area, 7.61 km2 (2.94 sq mi) or 62.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.93 km2 (1.52 sq mi) or 32.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.52 km2 (0.20 sq mi) or 4.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02 km2 (4.9 acres) or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.7%. Out of the forested land, 31.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 31.2% is used for growing crops and 29.2% is pastures, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.
Demographics
Ochlenberg has a population (as of 31 December 2020) of 563.
“Ochlenberg” enters the record as municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ochlenberg, municipality and canton can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q67857. VIAF identifies the subject as 246952511. Authority coordinates are 47.149, 7.736. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1612, 2009 and 2020.
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