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| Canton | Bern | |
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| Residents | 3.564 (2018) | |
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Ins is a Swiss Municipality in the canton Bern. The rarely used French name is Anet.
background
The municipality of Ins is located in the Grosse Moos, which is part of the Bernese Seeland. This area is very fertile and the vegetable growing area of Switzerland.
There is evidence that the area has been inhabited since the Mesolithic. A bronze age dagger blade was also found. On the Schaltrain there are Celtic princely graves, which lived on the area of the later Hasenburg, are assigned to the older Iron Age (Hallstatt period). A Roman military road led straight from the Broye to Ins, connecting Aventicum (Avenches) with Augusta Raurica and Vindonissa. The bridge of the road over the Broye was 84 meters long and 7.6 meters wide. In addition, remains of settlements from the Gallo-Roman period were found in the Murstuden, summer shrubs and on the Brüehlzelgli. When the Romans withdrew around the year 400, the Romanized Burgundians streamed into the Swiss Central Plateau from the west and the Alemanni from the east. This made the Mittelland bilingual. Legend has it that in 851, Bishop David of Lausanne was murdered in Ins near the Blutstein on Müntschemiergasse. This striking red boulder, but it must have been red before. Because it was brought here from the Rhone Glacier during the last Ice Age and probably comes from the Aiguilles Rouges. The municipality of Ins first belonged to the Kingdom of Burgundy and later came with this into the German Empire. It was first mentioned in writing in 1009 when the Hasenburg, which became the ancestral seat of the Counts of Fenis, was built on the Schaltrains at the west end. The Counts of Neuchâtel, Nidau, Strassberg and Valangin also emerged from this family. In 1375 the region became Savoy and in 1407 it went to the Counts of Chalon. Also in 1375 the Guglers were defeated near Ins. In connection with the Burgundian Wars, the Bernese conquered Erlach in 1474 and appointed a governor. And so Ins also became part of the Canton of Bern. The advertisers bought themselves out of serfdom in 1491. At that time, Ins became a high court, and thus had an important role in the Landvogtei Erlach.
Ins received its current importance as an agricultural village in connection with the Jura watercorrection, which lowered the groundwater level in the Grosse Moos and contained the floods.
The Witzwil prison was founded in 1891 and is located in the south-west of the community. And is still in operation today as a half-open penal institution with around 190 places.
getting there
By plane
By train
Three Swiss private railways meet at the Ins train station. From Bern via Kerzers and on to Neuchâtel the standard gauge line of the BLS (formerly BN). Of Freiburg above Murten the normal gauge line of the TPF (formerly GFM). As well as the narrow-gauge route of the ASm (formerly BTI) from Biel over Baptism, this has an additional stop in the village.
There is also a bus line to Erlach.
By bus
In the street
The main road number 10 leads from Kerzerswhere the motorway junction with the A1 motorway is located (Bern-Lausanne) to Ins. It leads as a car road around Ins, on to Thiele where it joins the A 5 motorway which from (Biel)-La Neuveville to Neuchâtel-Yverdon leads
mobility
Tourist Attractions
- reformed Church
- Birth and work house. Of Albert Anker. There is now a museum.
- There is a bird sanctuary at the mouth of the Broye Canal in Lake Neuchâtel.
