Ruocco tribù: Ruocco a Grafenried (CH)

domenica 7 agosto 2011

Ruocco a Grafenried (CH)

Grafenried è un comune del Canton Berna di 912 abitanti.

Grafenried is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland
Grafenried is first mentioned in 1258 as Gravenriet. In 1262 it was mentioned as Riede

Grafenried has an area, as of 2009, of 4.72 km² (1.82 sq mi). Of this area, 2.61 km² (1.01 sq mi) or 55.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.65 km² (0.64 sq mi) or 35.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.48 km² (0.19 sq mi) or 10.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km² (2.5 acres) or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.4%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.1%. 35.0% of the total land area is heavily forested. Of the agricultural land, 43.9% is used for growing crops and 9.3% is pastures, while 2.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.
It is located on the eastern Rapperswil plateau. It includes the village of Grafenried as well as the two hamlet that were founded in the 16th Century, Buchhof and Binel.

Grafenried has a population (as of 31 December 2009) of 954 As of 2007, 2.3% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 7.4%. Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (95.9%), with French being second most common ( 1.7%) and Italian being third ( 0.3%).

The historical population is given in the following table