Hasliberg is a municipality

Municipalities of Switzerland

Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,596 . While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities...

 in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district

Interlaken-Oberhasli (administrative district)

Interlaken-Oberhasli District in the Canton of Bern was created on 1 January 2010. It is part of the Oberland administrative region. It contains 29 municipalities with an area of and a population of 48,763....

 in the canton

Cantons of Switzerland

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 of Bern in Switzerland

Switzerland

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History

Hasliberg is first mentioned in 1358 as Hasle an dem berge. After 1834 it was known as Gem Hasleberg. Since 1923 the spelling has been Hasliberg.

Geography

Hasliberg has an area, , of 41.74 km² (16.1 sq mi). Of this area, 21.93 km² (8.5 sq mi) or 52.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 13.41 km² (5.2 sq mi) or 32.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.35 km² (0.521237914099922 sq mi) or 3.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.31 km² (0.119691669163686 sq mi) or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and 4.69 km² (1.8 sq mi) or 11.2% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.2%. 27.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 13.3% is pastures and 39.2% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams. Of the unproductive areas, 7.0% is unproductive vegetation and 4.2% is too rocky for vegetation.

The four villages on this terrace are Hohfluh, Wasserwendi, Goldern and Reuti. They can be reached by road from the Brünig-Hasliberg pass and train station. The name is from OHG

Old High German

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 hasal "hazel

Hazel

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Demographics

Hasliberg has a population (as of ) of . , 13.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -1.3%. Most of the population speaks German (89.8%), with English being second most common ( 3.5%) and Albanian being third ( 1.3%).

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP

Swiss People's Party

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 which received 51.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS

Social Democratic Party of Switzerland

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 (16.4%), the Green Party

Green Party of Switzerland

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 (10.4%) and the FDP

Free Democratic Party of Switzerland

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 (7.7%).

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 31.9% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 54.2% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.9%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Hasliberg about 65.9% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule

Fachhochschule

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).

Hasliberg has an unemployment rate of 1.01%. , there were 166 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 68 businesses involved in this sector. 53 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 13 businesses in this sector. 478 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 49 businesses in this sector.
The historical population is given in the following table:

year	population
1764	693
1850	1,309
1900	1,037
1950	1,044
2000	1,276

Tourism

It has become a popular destination for winter sports, as gondola lifts run from Meiringen

Meiringen

-References:...

 through Reuti to Planplatten

Planplatten

Planplatten is a mountain situated above Meiringen in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland. In 1999 a panoramic restaurant has been built on the summit which is accessible by gondola lift....

 (at over 2200 meters elevation), as well as from Wasserwendi to Käserstatt. An international boarding school

Boarding school

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, the Ecole d'Humanité, is located in Goldern.