Trubschachen

Trubschachen is first mentioned in 1667 as Trueberschachen. The municipality grew out of a cluster of six farms along the banks of the Ilfis river during the Middle Ages. The parishes of Langnau im Emmental and Trub both claimed the farm houses. In 1666 they were divided, with three going to each parish. As the settlement grew and the situation in surrounding municipalities changed, the farms were too far from either municipality. In 1727 the farms began to exercise limited self-government, passing laws regarding the poor and citizenship. In 1737 a school opened in the community, which was known as Schachen at the time. This was followed by establishing a village police force in 1773 and collecting taxes in 1775–77. An einwohnergemeinde or citizen's community was founded in 1852, though it was called Innerer Lauperswilviertel until 1867. It became an independent parish in 1874 and the parish church was built in 1890–92. The political municipality was created in 1923 from parts of Trub and Langnau. Traditionally the residents of the area raised crops on the valley floor. In the 18th century they began weaving canvas and processing milk into cheese. The first cheese factory opened in 1827 and by 1900 there were five in the municipality. Today that number has shrunk to only two. In 1875, the Bern-Lucerne railroad connected Trubschachen to the growing Swiss rail network and brought industry into the municipality. In 1910 the Kambly Biscuit factory opened and became the largest employer. Other industries settled in the area as well. Today tourism is a small, but significant part of the local economy and since 1964 painting exhibitions draw many tourists to the municipality. In addition to the Swiss Reformed parish, various Baptist congregations exist in Trubschachen as well as a New Apostolic congregation with a church from 1947. ==Geography==

Trubschachen has an area of . As of 2012, a total of or 51.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 42.7% is forested. The rest of the municipality is or 4.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land. During the same year, housing and buildings made up 2.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.8%. A total of 40.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 5.6% is used for growing crops and 29.3% is pasturage and 15.4% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Or two Mullets Azure and of the last a Tau Cross couped of the first. ==Demographics==

Trubschachen has a population () of . , 9.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Between the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population changed at a rate of 1.1%. Migration accounted for 0.6%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.5%. Most of the population () speaks German (1,437 or 92.0%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (28 or 1.8%) and Turkish is the third (8 or 0.5%). There are 3 people who speak French, 3 people who speak Italian. Of the population in the municipality, 588 or about 37.6% were born in Trubschachen and lived there in 2000. There were 618 or 39.6% who were born in the same canton, while 161 or 10.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 144 or 9.2% were born outside of Switzerland. , there were 184 households that consist of only one person and 49 households with five or more people. , a total of 580 apartments (89.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 37 apartments (5.7%) were seasonally occupied and 32 apartments (4.9%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 9.2 new units per 1000 residents. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width: auto height:200 barincrement:45 PlotArea = top:20 left:40 bottom:20 right:35 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:1700 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:300 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:60 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width: 35 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1764 from:start till:474 text:"474" bar:1850 from:start till:700 text:"700" bar:1860 from:start till:738 text:"738" bar:1870 from:start till:804 text:"804" bar:1880 from:start till:764 text:"764" bar:1888 from:start till:748 text:"748" bar:1900 from:start till:851 text:"851" bar:1910 from:start till:874 text:"874" bar:1920 from:start till:847 text:"847" bar:1930 from:start till:1430 text:"1,430" bar:1941 from:start till:1518 text:"1,518" bar:1950 from:start till:1599 text:"1,599" bar:1960 from:start till:1665 text:"1,665" bar:1970 from:start till:1577 text:"1,577" bar:1980 from:start till:1627 text:"1,627" bar:1990 from:start till:1586 text:"1,586" bar:2000 from:start till:1562 text:"1,562" bar:2010 from:start till:1351 text:"1,351" ==Economy==

, Trubschachen had an unemployment rate of 1.29%. , there were a total of 987 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 170 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 55 businesses involved in this sector. 540 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 20 businesses in this sector. 277 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 48 businesses in this sector. , there were 527 workers who commuted into the municipality and 387 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.4 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. A total of 434 workers (45.2% of the 961 total workers in the municipality) both lived and worked in Trubschachen. Of the working population, 11.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 40.2% used a private car. For comparison, the average rate for the entire canton in 2011, was 14.2% and 22.0%, while the nationwide average was 12.3% and 21.1% respectively. In 2010 there were a total of 577 tax payers in the municipality. Of that total, 124 made over 75,000 CHF per year. There were 6 people who made between 15,000 and 20,000 per year. The greatest number of workers, 177, made between 50,000 and 75,000 CHF per year. The average income of the over 75,000 CHF group in Trubschachen was 108,265 CHF, while the average across all of Switzerland was 131,244 CHF. In 2011 a total of 2.0% of the population received direct financial assistance from the government. ==Politics==

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Swiss People's Party (SVP) which received 35.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP) (30.8%), the Social Democratic Party (SP) (10.2%) and the Green Party (8.6%). In the federal election, a total of 559 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 52.0%. ==Religion==

From the , 1,163 or 74.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 80 or 5.1% were Roman Catholic. Of the rest of the population, there were 7 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.45% of the population), and there were 83 individuals (or about 5.31% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 47 (or about 3.01% of the population) who were Muslim. There were 3 individuals who were Buddhist, 63 individuals who were Hindu and 4 individuals who belonged to another church. 48 (or about 3.07% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 64 individuals (or about 4.10% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Trubschachen about 48.6% of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 11.5% have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). During the 2012–13 school year, there were a total of 156 students attending classes in Trubschachen. There were a total of 24 students in the German language kindergarten classes in the municipality. Of the kindergarten students, 12.5% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 20.8% have a different mother language than the classroom language. The municipality's primary school had 95 students in German language classes. Of the primary students, 22.1% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 34.7% have a different mother language than the classroom language. During the same year, the lower secondary school had a total of 37 students. There were 16.2% who were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 21.6% have a different mother language than the classroom language. , there were a total of 95 students attending any school in the municipality. Of those, 71 both lived and attended school in the municipality, while 24 students came from another municipality. During the same year, 154 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ==Sister Cities==

The municipality of Trubschachen is a sister city with Midway, in the State of Utah, of the United States. == Notable people ==

• Georges Huber (1910 in Trubschachen – 2003) a Swiss journalist who wrote many publications relating to the Catholic Church ==References==