Hüniken

Hüniken

Hüniken is a municipality in the district water office of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

With an area of ​​only 1.0 square kilometers just Hüniken is the smallest municipality in the district water office. The municipal area includes a portion of the gently undulating moraine landscape in the outer water office, which was formed by the glacial Rhône glacier. The central part of the region is the basin of Hüniken and the south of this location Tannfeld. To the south of the municipality extends to the ground in the forest area Ischlag, in the 497 m above sea level. M. the highest elevation of Hüniken is achieved. From the municipality surface 1997 8 % were settlements, 16 % of forest and woody plants and 76 % to agriculture.

With 92 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Hüniken one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Solothurn. Of the residents 98.5 % are German and 1.5 % speak English (as of 2000). The population of Hüniken amounted in 1850 to 79 inhabitants in 1900 to 69 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated always in the range between 70 and 80 residents.

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Its present form was given the St. Michael's Chapel in 1822. Hüniken has preserved several characteristic farmhouses dating from the 17th to the 19th century.