Mülchi

Mülchi, taken from a balloon from 16 April 2011

Mülchi was until December 31, 2013 municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 merged with the former municipalities Mülchi Büren, Etzelkofen, Count Ried, Limpach, Schalunen and Zauggenried for Township woman fountain.

Geography

Mülchi is located on 476 m above sea level. M., 13 km south-southwest of the town of Solothurn (air line). The farming village extends along the southern edge of the plane of Limpachtals, on a flat alluvial fan of Mülchibachs which emerges here from the heights of the plateau Rapperswil, the Swiss Plateau.

The area of ​​3.8 km ² large municipality area includes a section of the Bernese Mittelland. The northern boundary runs along the canalized Limpachs. From here, the communal land extends southward over the 1 km wide Limpachmoos up onto the adjacent rolling countryside of Rapperswil plateau. West of Taleinschnitts of Mülchibachs is the forest height of Aspi ( 523 m above sea level. M. ), east of it the broad back of the Schoeni mountain on which 546 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Mülchi is achieved. From the municipality surface 1997 accounted for 5% on settlements, 18% of forest and shrubs, 76 % to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.

To Mülchi include the outer settlement in wood ( 492 m above sea level. M. ) at the level east of the village and some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Mülchi were up 31 December 2013 Limpach, Büren and Etzelkofen in the canton of Bern as well as fairs and Unterramsern in the canton of Solothurn.

Population

With 227 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Mülchi one of the small communities of the Canton of Bern. Of the residents 95.9 % are German, 1.6 % Italian-speaking and 1.2 % speak French (as of 2000). The population of Mülchi amounted in 1850 to 380 residents in 1900 to 282 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population increased continuously until 1990, by a further 25 % to 214 persons. Since then, a slight increase in population was recorded again.

Policy

The voting shares of the parties at the national elections of 2011 were: SVP 60.5 %, 16.2 % BDP, glp 8.8 %, SP 3.7 %, 2.6 % GPS, FDP 2.0 %, 1.4 % EPP, EDU 1.4 %, CVP 1.1 %.

Economy

Mülchi was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. The water power of the Mülchibachs was formerly used for the operation of a mill. Even today, agriculture, fruit growing and dairy farming and animal husbandry an important place in the economic structure of the population. Outside the primary sector, very few jobs are available in the village. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the larger towns in the area as well as in the agglomeration of Berne and Solothurn in the room.

Traffic

The community is located off of the larger passage axes of a link road from Bätterkinden to Lyss. By Postbus course, which serves the route of Bätterkinden after measuring, Mülchi is connected to the public transport network.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1272 under the name Mulnheim. Later, the names Mulheim ( 1354 ), Mulchein ( 1531), Mülchy ( 1570) and Mülchi (1637 ) published. The original meaning of the place name is located by the mill, derived from the Old High German word mulin ( mill).

Since the Middle Ages Mülchi was under the suzerainty of the Counts of Kyburg. In the 13th century the Cistercian nun wells acquired tithes on Mülchi. In 1406 the village came under Bernese rule and the district court Zollikofen been assigned. On September 1, 1773, many houses fell victim to a conflagration. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) Mülchi belonged during the Helvetic Republic to the district Zollikofen and from 1803 to Oberamt Mrs. Fountain, received the status of an office district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831.

Already in the 18th century, great efforts have been made to counteract the stagnation of Limpachtals. New arable land, however, was obtained only during the cross-cantonal melioration in the years 1939-1951.

Rudolf Minger, later the Federal Council, was born in 1881 in Mülchi. After a Welschland year he worked until 1907 on the family farm, where he autodidactically formed during a prolonged illness.

Attractions

Mülchi has with its numerous characteristic farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries, a worthy of protection of national importance. Is a typical Taunersiedlung At the Moosgasse west of the village. The former mill dates from 1848. Mülchi does not have its own church, it belongs to the canton of Solothurn parish fairs.

Pictures

Entrance to the village of Mülchi