Ittigen - Geography

Geography

Ittigen has an area of 4.21 km² (1.63 sq mi) . Of this area, 1.03 km2 (0.40 sq mi) or 24.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.6 km2 (0.23 sq mi) or 14.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.54 km2 (0.98 sq mi) or 60.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.04 km2 (9.9 acres) or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes.

Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 5.0% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 33.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 18.5%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.4% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.7%. Out of the forested land, 12.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 18.5% is used for growing crops and 5.5% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.

The municipality is located in the Worblental (Worblen valley) on a terrace on the Mannenberg (elevation 688 m ) in the agglomeration of Bern.

In 1983 the municipality was created when it separated from Bolligen.

On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Bern, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland.