Mühledorf, Solothurn

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

Geography

Mill village is situated at 557 m above sea level. M., 9 km south-southwest of Canton main town of Solothurn (air line). The long road village extends into the hollow of the upper Mühletals, in the center of Bucheggberg, in the Solothurn Plateau.

The area of ​​3.3 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Molassehöhen of Bucheggberg. From southwest to northeast, the area is crossed by the mill stream in a relatively narrow valley. The valley is flanked and Eichiberg (656 m above sea level. M. ) and separated from the plane of Limpachtals in the southeast of the forest heights Chalgen ( the highest elevation of mill village with 660 m above sea level. M. ). In the north- west of the municipality spell reaches the heights Aspli (626 m above sea level. M. ) and Valais mountain ( 613 m above sea level. M. ). In a small corner of the communal land extends to the southwest over a saddle on the high plateau of Gächliwil and the Usserholz ( 651 m above sea level. M. ). From the municipality surface 1997 6 % came from settlements, 38 % of forest and shrubs, 55 % to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.

At the mill village include some individual farms. Neighboring communities of mill village were up on 31 December 2013 Tscheppach, Brügglen, Aetingen, Unterramsern, Aetigkofen, Lüterswil - Gächliwil and Hessigkofen.

Population

With 344 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) mill village is one of the small communities of the Canton of Solothurn. Of the residents 97.9 % are German, 1.2 % French-speaking and 0.3 % speak Italian ( as of 2000). The population of the village mill amounted in 1850 to 363 residents in 1900 to 318 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated in the range between 300 and 320 people before in the 1960s decreased to 250 inhabitants. Since 1980, a continuous population growth was recorded again.

Economy

Mill village was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. The water power of the mill Bach was once used by a mill, a saw mill and an oil mill. In the Bockstein pit in Usserholz at Aetigkofen shell sand stone was mined from the main millstones were produced. Even today, the farming and fruit growing and cattle breeding and forestry have an important place in the economic structure of the population.

More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In the mill village mill and the wholesale bakery, plants of horticulture, timber construction, painting shops, a sawmill and carpentry in addition to the major employers represented. The municipality can thus recorded more commuters than commuters. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions of Solothurn, Bern, Grenchen.

Traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfares on a road from Bätterkinden by Arch By Postbus course which from the station serves the route wage Lüterkofen after Schnottwil, as well as by the Paratransit Bucheggberg mill village is connected to the network of public transport.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1261 under the name Mülidorf. Since the Middle Ages mill village was under the rule Buchegg, which was part of the County of Burgundy country, acquired in 1391 from Solothurn and was 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. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) mill village belonged to the district during the Helvetic Biberist and from 1803 to the District Bucheggberg.

Attractions

Since 1338 mill village possessed a chapel, which was a famous pilgrimage site for the nearby St. Margaret source which healing effect has been awarded, long time. Today's Reformed Church was built in 1855. The oil mill in the lower part of the village was built in 1774 and is today still at the mill day in each operation. In the center characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved in the Bernese style.

In Murliwald south of the village there is a so-called shell stone, an erratic block of hornblende - granite, which was brought here by the glacial Rhone glacier of the Valais Alps.

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