Aetingen

Village center of Aetingen with church

Aetingen, rarely written AETINGEN until at 31 December 2013 was a municipality in the district of Bucheggberg the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014, merged with the former municipalities Aetingen Aetigkofen, beavers, Brügglen, Gossliwil, Hessigkofen, Küttigkofen, Kyburg, mill village and Tscheppach the new community Buchegg.

Geography

Aetingen is located on 480 m above sea level. M., 8.5 km south-southwest of Canton main town of Solothurn (air line). The hamlet extends slightly increased at the southeast foot of Bucheggbergs, at the edge of the plain of Limpachtals, in the Solothurn Plateau.

The area of ​​2.9 km ² large municipality area includes a portion in the southwest of Solothurn midlands. The south-eastern boundary runs along the canalized Limpachs. From here, the communal land extends to the northwest on the 465 m above sea level. M. lying intensively farmed level of Limpachtals and the subsequent Molassehöhen of Bucheggbergs where the slope of the Chalgen with 620 m above sea level. M. the highest elevation of Aetingen is achieved. In the area of Aetingen the densely wooded southeast slope of Bucheggbergs is subdivided by several Bachtälchen. From the municipality surface 1997 6 % came from settlements, 42 % of forest and shrubs, 49% to agriculture and less than 3% was unproductive land.

To Aetingen include the main part of the village Brittern (472 m above sea level. M. ) on the northern edge of the Limpachtals at the foot of Britternhubels as well as some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Aetingen were up on December 31, 2013 Unterramsern, Mill Village, Brügglen and Kyburg in the Canton of Solothurn and Bätterkinden and Mrs. Fountain in the Canton of Bern.

Population

With 287 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Aetingen is one of the small communities of the Canton of Solothurn. Of the residents 96.3 % are German, 2.6 % French-speaking and 0.7 % speak English (as of 2000). The population of Aetingen amounted in 1850 to 266 residents in 1900 to 303 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated in the range of 290-320 inhabitants, before a slight overall decline in population was recorded in the second half.

Economy

Aetingen was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming and fruit growing and cattle breeding have an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available, including in an establishment of horticulture and in carpentry. Aetingen is the site of a golf course. In recent decades, the village has grown with the development of new residential areas on the hillside above the village and into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions of Solothurn and Bern.

Traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfares on a road from Lohn along the southern foot of Bucheggberg after measuring. By Postbus course, which serves the route of Bätterkinden for Masses, as well as by the Paratransit Bucheggberg Aetingen is connected to the network of public transport.

History

The territory of Aetingen was inhabited during the Roman period, which could be detected by some finds from the 2nd century AD in the church. In the early Middle Ages was at Altschloss above the village of a so far unidentified researched retreat.

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1267 under the name Etinge. Later, the names Hättingen ( 1275 ), Etingon (1300), Etingen ( 1309) and Aetingen ( 1329 ) published. The name goes back to the Old High German personal name Ato and means with the suffix -ingen as much as the people of Ato.

The Church of Aetingen that must have existed according to excavations already much before the first mention of the village, initially belonged to the monastery of St. Gallen and then went over the Knights of St. John of Thunstetten the Reformation in Bern. In the Middle Ages Aetingen belonged to the rule Aarwangen. After 1309 it changed hands several times before it came to Bern. In 1470 the town of Solothurn was purchased and incorporated the Bailiwick Bucheggberg. The lower courts went on to Solothurn, the Aetingen of court for appointed, while the high justice was until 1798 the Bernese district court Zollikofen. After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) Aetingen belonged during the Helvetic Republic to the district Biberist and from 1803 to the District Bucheggberg.

Attractions

The Protestant parish church Aetingen, a hall church with rectangular choir, was built from 1502 to 1510 in late Gothic style on the site of several previous buildings new and rebuilt and enlarged in the 17th and in the 19th century. Together with the rectory of 1654, the Pfarrscheune of 1794 and the Pfrundstöckli it forms a delightful unit. The old town is characterized by typical farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries.

Pictures

Golf Course Aetingen

Parish Church of Aetingen

Interior of the church

Schoolhouse

Gasthaus Drei Confederates in Brittern

Coat of arms

Blazon