Dulliken

Center of Dulliken, in the background the tower of the Catholic Church

Geography

Dulliken is on 394 m above sea level. M., 3 km east of the district main town Olten ( straight line ). The village is located on the high terrace on the southern edge of the Aareniederung, at the foot of the angel of mountains, at the foot of the Jura Niederamt in Solothurn.

The area of ​​6.0 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Aare valley east of Olten Solothurn in the east midlands. The northern parish boundary runs along part of the river the river Aare, partly on the south adjacent lower terrace. From here, the communal land extends southward over the 800 m wide gravel terrace of Dulliken and on the anticline mountain angel, which is a Jurassic upstream pleat south of Aarelaufs. The entire plateau of the Angel Mountain is one of Dulliken, the southern boundary is located at the edge of the steep drop against the safe Wiler valley. The lowest point of the municipality lies on the River Aare to 386 m above sea level. Level, while the highest elevation 702 m above sea level. M is located on the crest of Mount Angel. From the municipality surface 1997 25 % came from settlements, 35 % of forest and woody plants, 39% in agriculture and somewhat less than 1% was unproductive land.

To Dulliken include former hamlet (now expanded to the residential district ) Leimgruben ( 448 m above sea level. M. ) increased slightly lower north slope of Mount Angel and the hamlet of Engelberg ( 670 m above sea level. M. ) on the plateau of the mountain of the same name. In contrast, the south of the Aare location Schachen part of the community Obergösgen. Neighboring communities of Dulliken are Starrkirch -Wil, Olten, Winznau, Obergösgen, Däniken and Walterswil in the canton of Solothurn and Oftringen in the canton of Aargau. The settlement area of Dulliken has grown together seamlessly with that of Starrkirch -Wil.

Population

With 4725 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Dulliken belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Solothurn. Of the residents 79.2 % are German, 9.2 % Italian-speaking and 4.0 % speak Turkish ( as of 2000). The population of Dulliken amounted in 1850 to 671 inhabitants, 1900 to 828 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population rose to 1970 on 4526 people, with particularly large growth rates were registered in the 1950s and 1960s. Since 1970, only small population fluctuations were recorded.

Economy

Dulliken was until the 20th century, a predominantly coined by agriculture village. Since the first half of the 20th century, increasingly settled establishments in the footwear industry, metal construction and the building industry.

Today, agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry have only a marginal position in the occupational structure of the population. Many other jobs are in the industrial and services sectors present. Larger commercial and industrial zones are located in the plane between the railway line and the river Aare. In the church today various establishments in the construction and transport industries, mechanical engineering, metal construction, the body shop, the electrical industry, the advertising industry, the wood processing industry, electronic industry, precision engineering workshops and trading companies are represented. East of the village a gravel pit is exploited.

Dulliken since 1979 location of a regional nursing home. From 1968 to 2001, the educational center Franziskushaus the Swiss Capuchin Order was in the community. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions of Olten and Aarau.

Traffic

The community is easily accessible via. It lies on the main road from Olten to 5 Aarau. The nearest links to the A1 ( Bern- Zurich ) is located about 8 km from the town center. On 9 June 1856, the railway line from Olten was taken to Aarau in operation. The Dulliken station but was established only in 1899. For the dispersion in public transport, the bus lines of the BOGG care (bus Olten Gösgen Gaeu ), which operate on routes of Wangen bei Olten via Olten to Dulliken and Dulliken after Obergösgen.

History

The territory of Dulliken was settled very early. So they found traces of settlement from the Neolithic period to the Engelberg as well as remains of a Roman estate on the Wilberg, who was believed to have been destroyed by the incursions of the Alemanni to 260 AD.

The first documentary mention of the place was already in the year 893 under the name Tullinchoua, 924 Tullinchova. Later, the names Tullichon ( 1173 ), Tullikon ( 1294 ), Tullenkon ( 1317 ), Tulliken ( 1412 ) and Dullicken (1525 ) published. The name goes back to the Old High German personal name Tullo. With a name ending in - iken (actually a drawing together of - igkofen ) he means as much as in the courts of the people of the Tullo, where so-called relocated farms are meant.

In the Middle Ages Dulliken was initially part of the Werder Office in Buchsgau, followed by the lower courts came to the pen Schönenwerd. Later the village was under the Barons of Gösgen- Falkenstein, before it was acquired in 1458 from Solothurn. Dulliken was doing the Bailiwick Gösgen incorporated in 1627 and assigned to the newly established Office Schultheissen Olten. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) belonged Dulliken during the Helvetic Republic to the administrative district of Solothurn and from 1803 to the district of Olten.

During the 19th century Dulliken was a poor community. The residents were partly to Olten, partly by Schönenwerd ( Bally shoe factory ) to work. In Dulliken, industrialization after 1930 with the establishment of a radiator factory and shoe factory Hug & Co. Ltd., which was long the most important employer in the village. From the economic crisis during the 1970s Dulliken was severely affected, because it lost many jobs. Since then, the industry has, however, diversified and new companies in various industries have settled in the community.

Ecclesiastical Dulliken was attached to the parish church Starr. It possessed with the St. Nicholas chapel since the Middle Ages its own church, which was demolished in 1887, however. The Kulturkampf in 1872 led to the splitting of the Catholic community Starr Kirch Dulliken in a Christian Catholic and a Roman Catholic parish. The Old Catholics attend church still in Starrkirch. For the inhabitants of the Roman Catholic faith, the Church of Saint Wendelin was inaugurated in 1876 in Dulliken that had to give way to a modern building in 1972. Zwingli Reformed Church was inaugurated in 1961.

Attractions

Engelberg with Tower

View of the nuclear power plant Gösgen the slope of Engelberg above Dulliken

Schoolhouse Neumatt

Dulliken center

Coat of arms

Blazon

The coat of arms has its origin in the erroneous derivation of the name of the animal name jackdaw.