Matzendorf

View of Matze village north postcode = 4713

Matze village is a municipality in the district of Thal in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

Geography

Matze village is situated at 510 m above sea level. M., 5 km west of the district town Balsthal (air line). The village street line extends on both sides of the village stream on the sunny side at the northern edge of the valley of the Balsthalertals, at the foot of Brunner mountain range in the Jura Mountains.

The area of ​​11.3 km ² large municipality area includes a section in the middle part of the Balsthalertal or Dünnerntal, a valley in the Solothurn Jura. The central part of the area is the approximately 500 to 1000 m wide flat valley floor of the Dünnern. To the south of the municipality spell goes on the anticline of white stone chain and encompasses the densely wooded escarpment of Leberen, which is bounded on the west by the cut in the hard Malmkalk erosion valley of the horn trench. The southern boundary runs along the Waldkrete of Höllchöpfli that with 1'231 m above sea level. M. is the highest elevation of Matze village.

To the north of the valley of the Dünnern adjoins the village crossed by the creek basin of Matze village, from the foothills Alphübel ( 594 m above sea level. M. ) and Emet ( 597 m above sea level. M. ) flanked. Further north, extends the communal land on the first relatively gentle, steep in the upper part, partially covered with rocks and subdivided by Wängital forest slope, the Sunnenberg so-called until the anticline of Brunner mountains with the height of the Great Brunner Berg (up to 1 ' 127 m above sea level. M. ). From the municipality surface 1997 7 % was attributable to settlements, 52 % of forest and woody plants and 41% to agriculture.

To Matzendorf include the district Müli (500 m above sea level. M. ) on the southern side of the Dünnerntal as well as numerous individual farms in the valley and on the sunny slope above the village and Mountain farms of the Jura heights. Neighboring communities of Matzendorf are Aedermannsdorf, Mümliswil -Ramiswil and Lauper village in the canton of Solothurn and Wolfisberg and Rumisberg in the canton of Bern.

Population

With 1291 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Solothurn. Of the residents 96.2 % are German, 1.0 % and 0.9 % speak Serbo-Croatian albanischsprachig (as of 2000).

Economy

Matze village was formerly a predominantly coined by farming village, but also the iron processing and the production of art pottery ( faience ) had in the 18th and 19th centuries an important meaning. During the 16th century, the heights of the mountains were cleared Brunner, created extensive summer pastures for the cattle, and built Mountain several courtyards. Even today, the farming and fruit growing in the deeper layers as well as the dairy and livestock in the upper parts of the municipality have an important place in the economic structure of the population.

Many other jobs are in the local retail industry and the services available. In Matzendorf today a metal foundry, aluminum foundry operations of timber construction and wood processing, mechanical engineering, metal construction, the construction industry, machine shops and a nursery are represented. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in Balsthal as well as in the area of ​​Olten -Solothurn.

Traffic

The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. It lies on the main road from Oensingen to Moutier. By Postbus course, which serves the route of Balsthal to Gänsbrunnen, Matze village is connected to the network of public transport.

History

The first documentary mention of the place was already in the year 968 under the name Mazen village; of 1227, the name Macindorf is preserved. The place name is derived from the Alemannic personal names matzo. Matze village was at the time of its first mention in the possession of the monastery of Moutier- Grandval. During the 11th century the village came with his Dinghof to the St. Urs pin in Solothurn, formed henceforth an enclave within the territory of the Counts of Froburg and therefore experienced in the period following a different fate than the other towns of the valley.

In the 14th century the abbey sold the Dinghof Matzendorf to the counts of Nidau ​​. Then there were various changes of ownership, to the village in 1400 came to A. Bumann of Olten and thereby enjoyed relatively great freedom. In 1449 Matze village came by purchase to Solothurn and was incorporated into the bailiwick of Falkenstein, the village was the seat of a court circle. Since the 16th century there were various iron smelting in the area of the village.

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) Matze village was assigned to the district Balsthal Valley. In the same year a ceramic factory was established on the border with Aedermannsdorf, which established the villages Matze Art Pottery. From 1810 on, the iron melts the company belonged Von Roll, but were shut down in 1841 and moved to Klus and after Herbetswil. In the 19th century, especially from 1850 to about 1870, the valley of severe poverty and famine was affected, so that many residents had to emigrate.

Attractions

The open field on a hill, west of the village Catholic Saint Pancras church was rebuilt in 1520 in the late Gothic style in 1781 and enlarged. The All Saints Chapel was built in 1949. In Horngraben the St. Antonius chapel stands on the site of a hermitage founded in 1450.

Pictures

Dorfbrunnen

Schoolhouse

Gasthaus Sternen

Coat of arms

Blazon