Kammersrohr

Entrance of Kammersrohr

Chamber tube is a municipality in the district of the canton of Solothurn livers in Switzerland. Situated on the southern slope of the Jura village with 38 inhabitants was 0.94 square kilometers both from its surface and from the population produces the smallest municipality in the canton. As early as the Neolithic period remained at the field of Kammersrohr people as finds from this period testify. The first written mention dates to the year 1374 and 1840 the village was recognized as a distinct community. The most striking building in the scattered settlement is a Grade I listed mansion.

Geography

Chamber tube is located at 600 m above sea level. M., about 6.5 kilometers in a straight line north-east of the main town of Solothurn Canton. Consisting of individual farms community extends a scenic location on the southern slopes of the Jura, in the region of Lower Leberberg about 170 feet above the level of the Solothurn midlands.

The area of ​​only 0.94 square kilometers municipal area includes a small section of the Jura south slope. The western boundary runs along the Teuffelenbachs and Mettlenstrasse Bach, which drain the area to Siggern, a left side stream of the river Aare. To the northeast, the communal land extends to the southern slope of the white stone chain and reaches the forest below the stretching Ackers with 755 m above sea level. M. the highest elevation of chamber tube. In 2011, 2.1 % of the municipality accounted for settlements, 39.4% of forest and woody plants and 58.5 % to agriculture.

Solothurnische neighboring communities of Kammersrohr are the south to Huber Village and Günsberg the west and north. To the east of the canton of Bern belonging Attiswil municipality borders on chamber tube.

Population

With 33 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Kammersrohr terms of population is the smallest municipality in the canton of Solothurn. With its 2000 95.0 % of the inhabitants were German-speaking. One person was in English and one spoke Polish ( 2.5% each ). The population of Kammersrohr amounted in 1850 to 68 inhabitants in 1900 to 51 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated in the range from 35 ( lowest point after the survey of 1941) and 53 residents ( peak, 1990). Chamber tube has little growth opportunities as the points of law protected area community has practically no land. Despite its small population Kammersrohr has 958 local citizens, but none of them are living in the community ( as of 2010).

Education

Kammersrohr not have its own school, so that the kindergarten and the primary school of the neighboring community Günsberg be visited. In the field of secondary education, the community belongs to the administration union county school sub Leberberg, who runs a high school in Huber Village. Had 30 residents from 15 years with the state of the federal census of 2000 as their highest educational attainment: Four people university studies, three a higher vocational school, four higher technical and vocational education ( tertiary level ), a person's high school and in twelve vocational training ( upper secondary education). Five people had visited only compulsory education and had not completed their training.

Religions

With the state of the 2000 census were of a population of 39 14 of the Evangelical Reformed Church and 18 of the Roman Catholic Church, while seven residents were non-denominational. Other churches and religious communities were not represented. Kammersrohr belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of St. Pantaleon Günsberg and Reformed parish Solothurn.

Policy

In the national elections of 2011, the FDP received. The Liberals in Kammersrohr 56% of the votes cast. The second strongest party was the Christian Democratic Party (CVP ) with 14.3 % of votes. 10.3 % went to "Other" ( the Federal Office of Statistics unspecified broken ). After that, the Swiss People's Party (SVP ) with 9.7%, followed by the Greens with 6.3 % and the Green Liberal Party ( GLP) with 2.3%, and the Social Democratic Party and the Conservative Democratic Party ( BDP ), each with 0, 6%. The turnout was 61.9 %.

The council, the executive branch of chamber tube, consists of three members. Mayor Terry Spillmann (2010 ). The legislative branch of the municipality is the town meeting.

Economy and Transport

Chamber tube is still a predominantly coined by agriculture village. The farming and fruit growing and cattle breeding have an important place in the economic structure of the population. Outside the primary sector there are no jobs in the village. Chamber tube has neither shops nor its own post office. Some of the working population commuters who work mainly in the Solothurn region. Together with the community field fountain -St. Niklaus has Kammersrohr with 60% of the lowest tax rate in the canton of Solothurn in (as of 2011 ).

The water supply is operated by the municipality chamber pipe itself, while the power of the AEK energy is made.

The community is located off the major thoroughfares; the main access is from Huber village. In Huber village is located with the bus stop Siggern the line from Solothurn to Balm bei Günsberg also the closest connection to the public transport. On foot chamber pipe can be reached from this stop in about 30 minutes.

History

Neolithic finds ( shards, charcoal ) that were made in the 1950s, testify that already were staying to prehistoric times, people in the field of chamber tube. Two sherds were assigned to the Bronze Age. Finds from the Roman period or the early Middle Ages were not made in Kammersrohr so far.

In the Middle Ages Kammersrohr was a Steckhof, so a yard that belonged to no church, and was under the rule from about 1050 Balm of the noble family of Balm. After Rudolf II of Balm had participated in 1308 to the assassination of King Albert I, 1309, the imperial ban was imposed against him and confiscated the entire rule. The rule Balm and thus Kammersrohr came afterwards as an imperial fief to Otto von Strassberg. The first mention of today's chamber tube was in 1374 as ze Rore. Other mentions were Ror, Rore or yard ze Ror. After various owners, the settlement in 1414 came to the city of Solothurn, had already in 1411 acquired the neighboring dominions Bipp, Erlinsburg and Wiedlisbach.

Since 1344, the city had held the high jurisdiction over Kammersrohr. The farm Rore was given several times citizens of Solothurn fief. 1428, a dispute between a relaxing Heini Chamber of Rore and the Solothurn citizens Jakob of Wengen, in consequence chamber, the hereditary fief as those of Wengen possessed half the yard, his fief shaft lost because he had lent the yard without permission. The current community name derives from the family room, but is detectable only in documents from the 16th century. The name researcher Rolf Max Kully is in Solothurnische place names for discussion the possibility that the name of the family to be equated with the common chamber in the canton of Solothurn family name Kamber and could be derived from the lying on the floor above Günsberger chamber tube rock Chambenflüe. On the other hand, could be erflühe as crest ( b) understand the loud Kully Chambenflüe.

In the 15th century the village was under the Bailiwick Balm, from 1487 it was part of the Bailiwick Flumenthal. To the border between chamber tube and the Bernese Attiswil or the Office Bipp it came again and again to uncertainty and dispute. From the last great frontier settlement in 1762 obtained evidence remaining landmarks. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) Kammersrohr belonged during the Helvetic Republic to the administrative district of Solothurn and from 1803 to the district livers.

In the first half of the 19th century, initially remained unclear whether the settlement chamber tube should be considered a community. From the mediation time is partly a decision of the Council Solothurn little before, is spoken in the community of the chamber tube, on the other hand he held in another decision that Kammersrohr was no real community. Peter Urs Meier treated straw in his description of the canton of Solothurn in 1836 Kammersrohr together with Huber village under Flumenthal. During this time, several people was approved by the Council, the civil rights of chamber tube. After 1839 a further discussed at naturalization petition if Kammersrohr should receive citizens, the relationships between Huber village and chamber tube were finally clarified and Kammersrohr 1840 explicitly recognized as an independent municipality. As a result, the naturalizations in Kammersrohr were numerous, as the naturalization applicants were able to obtain to relatively low cost, the Solothurn Canton civil rights. As the city of Solothurn Canton for the naturalization of citizens significantly lower fees than required for strangers, thereby obtaining the coveted citizenship of the town of Solothurn was much cheaper. Even in 1904 wrote the Geographical Dictionary of Switzerland: " Here the cheap fees for foreigners often maintain nationalize ".

On January 1, 1901 should be incorporated at the decision of Solothurn cantonal Kammersrohr Huber Village, since neither the citizens nor the municipality Kammersrohr were more able to order lawful community bodies. Against this decision taken by the citizens and municipality Huber village common constitutional complaint to the Federal Court, the " on the merits against the potential for citizens community Huber Village adverse consequences with respect to the maintenance of the poor" was directed. The Federal Court was called the recourse well and lifted the decision of the Cantonal because an association was without the consent of the communities involved inconsistent with Article 53 of the Constitution of the canton of Solothurn in 1887, which provides that municipalities could only be changed at the request of the parties.

Since the merger of the citizens and the municipality in 1995 Kammersrohr is the first unit municipality in the canton of Solothurn.

Attractions

A striking courtyard is the Middle Mattenhof with his under protection mansion. The naming of the three Matt yards in Kammersrohr goes back to the purchase of farms by Urs Zurmatten in 1576, after which they were first known as Zurmattenhöfe. Zurmatten let rebuild the existing, well-known as a summerhouse building. He also built a chapel dedicated to Saint Servatius, which was demolished in 1860 in a neglected state. Further modifications of the mansion were made by the later owner settler family. As Matt courtyards originally consisted only of the Near and the rear Mattenhof and the current Rear Mattenhof was separated later, the medium continues known as Rear Mattenhof. The house has a one-off for the canton of Solothurn stair construction. A large hall on the second floor extends over the whole width of the house. The gabled façade is characterized by large window openings and gothic profiles.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of chamber tube was determined by a decision of the Municipal Assembly of 26 January 1941. The blazon is: In white on green Dreienberg two green reeds with two leaves and black flask surmounted by sechsstrahligem red star. It is derived from a seal of 1819, in which the same figures are to be found without color. On Fire buckets of 1843, the coat of arms found in a version without a star.