Oeschenbach
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Oeschenbach is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Oeschenbach
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Oeschenbach COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Oeschenbach Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Oberaargau
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 4943
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0335
- Swiss town.area
- 3.9
- Swiss town.elevation
- 650
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Ochlenberg, Ursenbach, Walterswil, Wynigen
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Oeschenbach
- Population
- 237
- Area
- 3.92
- Elevation
- 718
- Official website
- www.oeschenbach.ch
- Dialing code
- 062
- Licence plate code
- BE
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- Commons category
- Oeschenbach
- postal code
- 4943
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/335
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Oeschenbach is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
==History== Oeschenbach is first mentioned between 841 and 72 as Eschibach in a donation document to the Abbey of St. Gall. In 1287, St. Urban's Abbey was listed as the major property holder in the village. In 1408, Bern acquired the Kyburg lands which included Oeschenbach. What would become the municipality of Oeschenbach was divided. Some time before 1431, the farms of Oeschenbach, Böschenhubel, Kleinhaus, Bruch, Oeschenberg, Rebelberg and Sage were assigned to the Court of Affoltern in the Amt of Trachselwald, while Oeschenbach village and 16 other farms or farm house groups went to the Court of Ursenbach in the Amt of Wangen. The settlements remained separated until 1803, though when they reunited as a community in a political municipality. Finally in 1885, the community separated from the municipality of Rohrbach to become an independent municipality.
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