Moosseedorf 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 Bern-Mittelland administrative district

Bern-Mittelland (administrative district)

Bern-Mittelland District in the Canton of Bern was created on 1 January 2010. It is part of the Bern-Mittelland administrative region, and is the only district in the region...

 in the canton

Cantons of Switzerland

The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the federal state of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereign state with its own borders, army and currency from the Treaty of Westphalia until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848...

 of Bern in Switzerland

Switzerland

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. The village is located south of Moossee

Moossee

Moossee is a lake in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland. Its surface area is 0.31 km². The lake gives the name to Moosseedorf on its southern shore. The golf course Moossee is located east of the lake at Münchenbuchsee. The Urtenen drains Chli Moossee before flowing into Grosser Moossee 400 meters...

, the lake that gives it its name.

History

Moosseedorf is first mentioned in 1242 as Sedorf. In 1389 it was mentioned as Mossedorf. In the 18th and early 19th Century, it officially became Moosseedorf to avoid confusion with Seedorf in the District of Aarberg

Aarberg (district)

The Aarberg District was an administrative district of the canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its capital was the town of Aarberg. The district contained 12 municipalities covering an area of :*CH-3270 Aarberg*CH-3282 Bargen*CH-3257 Grossaffoltern...

, which is also in the Canton of Bern.

Geography

Moosseedorf has an area, , of 6.35 square kilometres (2.5 sq mi). Of this area, 1.91 km² (0.737455122911742 sq mi) or 30.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.27 km² (0.876451900005054 sq mi) or 35.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.93 km² (0.745177166083593 sq mi) or 30.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.11 km² (27.2 acre) or 1.7% is either rivers or lakes and 0.1 km² (24.7 acre) or 1.6% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 9.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.6%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 9.0%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 23.0% is used for growing crops and 6.3% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is in lakes. All of the unproductive area is unproductive vegetation.

Moosseedorf is located in the Moossee valley south of the lake. The municipality includes the village of Moosseedorf and the hamlets

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 of Sand, Tannacker and Anteil am See. It belongs to the parish church

Parish church

A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....

 of Münchenbuchsee

Münchenbuchsee

Münchenbuchsee is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is famous as the birthplace of painter Paul Klee.-History:...

 but has a resident preacher and a cemetery.

Demographics

Moosseedorf has a population (as of ) of . , 15.4% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 1.8%. Most of the population speaks German (89.8%), with French being second most common ( 2.0%) and Albanian being third ( 1.5%).

In the 2007 election, the most popular party was the SVP

Swiss People's Party

The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...

, which received 38.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS

Social Democratic Party of Switzerland

The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....

 (23.9%), the FDP

Free Democratic Party of Switzerland

The Free Democratic Party was a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It was one of the major parties in Switzerland until its merger with the smaller classical liberal Liberal Party, to form FDP.The Liberals on 1 January 2009....

 (11.6%) and the Green Party

Green Party of Switzerland

The Green Party of Switzerland is the fifth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland, and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council.-History:...

 (9.8%).

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.5% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 67% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 9.5%. In Moosseedorf about 73.3% 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

A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...

).

Moosseedorf has an unemployment rate of 2.17%. , there were 57 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 15 businesses involved in this sector. 746 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 24 businesses in this sector. 2806 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 129 businesses in this sector.

The historical population is given in the following table:

year	population
1764	255
1850	584
1900	573
1950	819
1960	833
2000	3,584