Lostorf

Lostorf, seen from Engelberg

Lostorf is a municipality in the district of Gösgen the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

Geography

Lostorf is located on 451 m above sea level. Level, 5 km northeast of the town of Olten (air line). The former stream line the village extends on both sides of Lostorfer Bach in a basin at the foot of the Jura, on the northern edge of the broad Aareniederung Niederamt in Solothurn.

The area of ​​13.3 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Jura south slope and includes a large variety of landscapes on. The southern part of the municipality shows only slight differences in relief. It comprises a small proportion of the Aareniederung and the subsequent thereto foothills of the Jura with the hills Balmis ( 483 m above sea level. M. ), Eihübel (524 m above sea level. M. ) and Buerfeld (up to 470 m above sea level. M. ) with gently against south inclined slopes. These are broken down by the valleys of the Lostorfer creek and the Eibach's, which also occur here in the Aare plain.

About this Jura foothills zone, the chain of Dottenberg rises ( on the above 938 m. M. the highest point of Lostorf is ) and Rebenflue ( 688 m above sea level. M. ). Between these two heights is the breakthrough of Lostorfer village Bach. The northern part of the municipality is located in the headwaters of the village Bach in a geologically complex design and disassembled into individual scales section of the Jura Mountains. By a landslide in the area Falkenstein, which took place in front of about one million years, the relief experienced further transformations. The northern municipal boundary runs along the main ridge of the Jura, the watershed between the catchment areas of the rivers Aare and Ergolz, and ranges from Burgflue ( 935 m above sea level. M. ) up to the Ban (910 m above sea level. M. ). In the extreme west of the communal land extends almost to the tourist restaurant Froburg. From the municipality surface 1997 10 % came from settlements, 50 % of forest and woody plants and 40 % to agriculture.

To Lostorf include the settlement Moravia (476 m above sea level. M. ) in the dale of the Eibach's at the southern foot of the Dottenbergs, the bathroom Lostorf (524 m above sea level. M. ) in the basin of the Lostorfer Bach behind the constriction between Dottenberg and Rebenflue as well as numerous individual farms. Neighboring communities of Lostorf are pipe (SO), Stüsslingen, Niedergösgen, Obergösgen, Winznau, Trimbach and Wisen in the Canton of Solothurn and Zeglingen in the canton of Basel-Landschaft.

Population

With 3864 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Lostorf belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Solothurn. Of the residents 94.6 % are German, 1.2 % Italian-speaking and 0.6 % speak Serbo-Croatian (as of 2000). The population of Lostorf amounted in 1850 to 1096 inhabitants, 1900 to 1247 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population grew slowly but steadily until 1960 on 1554 people. Since then, a significant increase in population was associated with a doubling of the population recorded within 40 years.

Policy

The Council for the 2013-2017 term of office is made up of council members from the following parties: FDP and SP two seats, the CVP, the SVP and the Free List each one seat

Partner community since 1998, the German community Rielasingen- Worblingen.

Economy

Lostorf was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Earlier in Lostorf were a Nagelschmiede and a plaster mill in operation. The water power of the village Bach was used for the operation of other mills. Since 1930, the mineral spring Lostorf AG exists, which fills mineral water, soft drinks manufactures and sells.

Even today, the farming, fruit growing and animal husbandry and dairying have a certain role in the occupational structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. Since the 1970s, was on the southern edge of the village an industrial and commercial zone. Here, companies in the high-tech industry, metal processing and equipment manufacturing have settled. Listed focus on the electronics industry, wood processing and construction. 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 Olten and Aarau.

The Lostorfer mineral springs, gypsum and sulfur source is used as a thermal bath. After a fire in 1966 the spa was rebuilt and used as a congress and seminar center. The hotel and the spa are currently closed. In addition, a portion of the golf course Heidental is in the municipality of Lostorf.

Traffic

The community is conveniently technically quite well developed, even though it is off the major thoroughfares. The main access is from Obergösgen. By bus the BOGG (bus Olten Gösgen Gaeu ), which serves the route from Olten to Niedererlinsbach, Lostorf is connected to the public transport network.

History

The territory of Lostorf was inhabited in Roman times; Traces of a Roman estate and a Roman waiting were found above Bad Lostorf. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1145 under the name Loztorf; later the name Losdorf appeared ( 1265 ). The name goes back to the Old High German personal name Hlodo or lottery, and thus means village of Hlodo / lottery.

Since the Middle Ages Lostorf belonged to the small dominion Wait rock of the same noble family of Waiting Rock, which was under the suzerainty of the Habsburg dynasty. In 1465 Lostorf came together with this rule by purchase to the town of Solothurn and was assigned as a result of the Bailiwick Gösgen. As seat of the bailiff waiting rock castle served above the village. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) belonged Lostorf during the Helvetic Republic to the administrative district of Solothurn and from 1803 to the District Gösgen.

Attractions

Visible from stands above the village on the sloping eastward spur of the Dottenbergs the castle Wait Rock, which was built in the 13th century. Got its present shape, the castle in the 17th and 19th century, when it was converted into a mansion in the Solothurn country style. It also has a chapel with furnishings from the period around 1750 and a French garden.

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Martin is located on a hill west of the village. They already existed in the Middle Ages, but took its present form in the context of a fundamental transformation in the late 18th century. A further reorganization and enlargement was made in 1936. The Evangelical Reformed Church was built in 1966 until 1967. In addition to these two churches, the Chapel of St. Philip and James are (1577 built ) in the bath and Lostorf to mention the 1950 inaugurated Antoniuskapelle in Moravia.

Lostorf has also a former rectory, a granary (both 17th century ) and various characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to the 19th century exhibit. In the hamlet Mahren has a traditional store.

Pictures

Catholic Church Interior

Cemetery

Reformed Church

Castle Waiting rock

View from the Catholic church from the village

View from SE to Lostorf Bad and the Jura mountains, aquatint, 1830

Bad Lostorf, 1820-1840