Kyburg-Buchegg

Buchegg Castle

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

Geography

The double municipality Kyburg is situated 8 km south-southwest of Canton main town of Solothurn (air line). The village Kyburg extends to 469 m above sea level. M., at the eastern foot of Bucheggberg and at the edge of Limpachtals while Buchegg to 545 m above sea level. M. perched in a promising position on the high plateau of the eastern Bucheggberg.

The area of ​​1.6 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of in the Solothurn Molassehöhen of Bucheggberg Plateau. The area is bounded on the southeast by the channelized reaches of the Limpachs. From here, the communal land extends westward across the intensively farmed level of Limpachtals and the slope of Kyburg up to the high plateau of Buchegg into which the Höllgrabenbach has sunk a short erosion valley. At the height of Öfeli east of Forest Hill meet Ämit is 572 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Kyburg. The high plateau of Buchegg runs to the northeast in the crest of the Altis mountain ( 494 m asl; . Northern boundary of the parish ) from. In the far east, the border is a short section along the line of the regional train to Bern- Solothurn. From the municipality surface 1997 12 % came from settlements, 24 % of forest and shrubs, 62% to agriculture and slightly less than 2% was unproductive land.

Besides the two districts and Kyburg Buchegg are still a few isolated farms to the community. Neighboring communities of Kyburg were up on December 31, 2013 Aetingen, Brügglen and Küttigkofen in the canton of Solothurn and Bätterkinden in Canton Bern.

Population

With 334 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Kyburg is one of the small communities of the Canton of Solothurn. Of the residents 98.2 % are German, 0.6 % French-speaking and 0.3 % speak Romansh (as of 2000). The population of Kyburg amounted in 1850 to 173 residents in 1900 to 189 inhabitants. After a slight decrease in a continuous population growth has been recorded since 1941 (161 inhabitants).

Economy

Kyburg was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Today, the farming and fruit growing and cattle breeding have only a minor role in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available, including a carpenter. The most important employer of Kyburg is the Special school home house flowers. In recent decades, the village has developed thanks to its attractive location 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 Bätterkinden after mill village. Kyburg is by a postal Car Course, which operates direct flight from Bätterkinden after measuring, Buchegg connected through the postal bus from wage Lüterkofen station after measuring the power of public transport. Both villages are approached by the Paratransit Bucheggberg.

History

The municipality of Kyburg was settled very early. So come the earliest finds, including a stone ax from the Neolithic period; but also from the Roman period individual remains have been discovered.

The first mention of Buchegg was in 1175 under the name Boucecca, which is composed of the word elements beech and Egg ( headland on a steep slope ). Kyburg does not appear until 1517 for the first time as Kyberg in the writings and probably has nothing to do with the Burgdorfer of the Counts of Kyburg. It is believed that the name of a merge of chyd (column, namely the Höllgraben ) and mountain is derived.

The story of Kyburg is closely related to that of the Counts of Buchegg. These are mentioned for the first time in 1130 and had its headquarters in a castle on the site of today's small castle Buchegg. Her reign, the country was under the County of Burgundy, comprised much of the Bucheggbergs and the adjacent Limpachtals. 1276 was also the rule Balmegg, possibly an early branch of the Counts of Buchegg belonged, back to the reign Buchegg. Around the castle there is a small settlement had developed gradually. After the family of the Count was extinguished in 1347, came the estates to the Mountain of Münsingen. In the course of Burgdorfer wars the castle Buchegg 1383 was burned by the Counts of Kyburg New and afterwards never rebuilt.

1391 rule Buchegg was purchased from Solothurn and converted to the Bailiwick Bucheggberg. Until 1798, the high court was the Bernese district court Zollikofen while Solothurn with the Aetingen of court exercised the lower courts. To 1542 Solothurn built on the site of the ruined castle a small prison tower. After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) Kyburg belonged during the Helvetic Republic to the district Biberist and from 1803 to the District Bucheggberg. The above Kyburg springing Höllgrabenbach was awarded healing properties since the 17th century. The source, however, was not taken until the mid 19th century and set up a bathroom and a guest house for Kuraufenthalter.

Attractions

The castle Buchegg (also called Buechischlössli ), a simple tower with a hipped roof, erected in 1546 under the reign of Solothurn at the site of the former castle Buchegg and henceforth served as a prison. The 1938 foundation established Buchegg Castle taught in this tower is a local history museum of the district Bucheggberg, which was opened in 1956. Gasthof Bad Kyburg was built in 1851.

Coat of arms

Blazon

The tower refers to the Buechischlösschen, the built on the site of the ruined Castle of the Counts in the 16th century, Solothurn, prison tower.

Pictures

Entrance of Kyburg

Gasthaus Bad Kyburg

Seen from the Castle Kyburg Buchegg from

Buchegg seen from the castle

Stadel

Tower

Ruins of old castle Buchegg