page_title: Aegerten
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Aegerten / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Railway bridge over the Aar between Aegerten and Brügg; Berne, Switzerland. In the background the road bridge of the A6. Deutsch: Eisenbahnbrücke über die Aare zwischen Aegerten und Brügg; Bern, Schweiz. Im Hintergrund die Strassenbrücke der A6.
context_page_description: Aegerten is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district of the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Aegerten has an area of 2.16 km² (0.83 sq mi).  As of 2012, a total of 0.81 km² (0.31 sq mi) or 37.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.61 km² (0.24 sq mi) or 28.1% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 0.63 km² (0.24 sq mi) or 29.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.11 km² (27 acres) or 5.1% is either rivers or lakes.
  During the same year, industrial buildings made up 2.8% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 15.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.5%.  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 4.1%.  Out of the forested land, 26.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 25.3% is used for growing crops and  9.2% is pastures, while 2.8% is used for orchards or vine crops.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
  The municipality is located on the right bank of the Nidau-Büren Canal.  The municipality has grown together with Brügg and Studen.  It consists of the villages of Aegerten and Bürglen along with the new housing developments of Tschannenmatte and Schüracher.
  On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Nidau, the municipality's former district, was dissolved.  On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Biel/Bienne.
caption: Railroad bridge over the Zihl river
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