page_title: Büren an der Aare
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Büren an der Aare / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Büren an der Aare: Altstadt mit Holzbrücke
context_page_description: Büren an der Aare is a historic town and a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Büren an der Aare had an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of 12.6 km² (4.86 sq mi).  Of this area, about 46.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 34.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 11.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and 7.6% is unproductive land.  Of the unproductive land, 0.89 km² (0.34 sq mi) or 7.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.07 km² (17 acres) or 0.6% is unproductive land.  Over the past two decades (1979/85-2004/09) the amount of land that is settled has increased by 22 ha (54 acres) and the agricultural land has decreased by 22 ha (54 acres).
  Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.3%. Out of the forested land, 32.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 40.2% is used for growing crops and 5.1% is pastures, while 1.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the water in the municipality, 3.9% is in lakes and 3.2% is in rivers and streams.
  The municipality is located on the right bank of the Aare, while the formerly independent village of Reiben is on the left bank. It consists of the town of Büren an der Aare, the surrounding agricultural villages of Scheuren, Gummen and Oberbüren, the new developments of Rütifeld and Ziegelei (Gewerbezone), scattered farm houses and since 1911 Reiben.
  On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Büren, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Seeland.
caption: View of Büren an der Aare from the opposite bank of the Aare
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