Nennigkofen

View towards the Jura

Nennigkofen was until December 31, 2012, a municipality in the district Bucheggberg the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. On January 1, 2013, it merged with Lüsslingen the new community Lüsslingen - Nennigkofen.

Geography

Nennigkofen is located on 456 m above sea level. M., 4 km south-west of the main town Canton of Solothurn (air line). The village is located in a depression in the village brook south of the plane of the Aare Valley, in the northern foothills of Bucheggberg, in the Solothurn Plateau.

The area of ​​4.6 km ² large former municipal area includes a portion of the Molassehöhen of Bucheggberg. The northern boundary runs along the Aare, which is describing a large arc around the Aarefeld. From the Aare, the former communal land extends southward across the flat valley floor and the from glacial Rhône glacier left behind, slightly undulating ground moraine ( Hubel, 487 m asl, . Riemberg, 458 m asl. ) Down to the forest hills of the northern Bucheggberg. In the upper forest of the village stream originates from Nennigkofen, which flows below Lüsslingen into the Aare. The highest elevation of 551 m above sea Nennigkofen is. M. reached on the northern slope of the Lerchenbergs. From the former rural community area in 1997 8 % were settlements, 23 % of forest and shrubs, 67% to agriculture and slightly more than 2% was unproductive land.

To Nennigkofen include some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Nennigkofen were Selzach, Lüsslingen and Lüterkofen- Ichertswil in the canton of Solothurn and Leuzigen in Canton Bern.

Population

With 488 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Nennigkofen was one of the small communities of the Canton of Solothurn. Of the residents 96.9 % are German, 1.0 % French-speaking and 0.2 % speak Italian ( as of 2000). The population of Nennigkofen amounted in 1850 to 406 residents in 1900 to 433 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated in the range between 400 and 480 people. Only since 1980 (406 inhabitants), a continuous population growth was recorded.

Economy

Nennigkofen was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. The water power of the village stream was used previously for the operation of a mill and an oil mill. Even today, the farming and fruit growing and cattle breeding and forestry 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 Nennigkofen operations of timber construction, information technology and construction are represented. The former church is the site of Curling Hall of Solothurn region. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions of Solothurn and Grenchen. The settlement area of Nennigkofen has grown together today almost completely with that of Lüsslingen. With regard to infrastructure (school, fire brigade, civil protection) work closely together the two communities.

Traffic

The former municipality is traffic moderately well developed. It lies on the old main road from Solothurn to Bueren an der Aare. In 2002, the section Solothurn- Biel opened the A5 motorway which crosses the former municipality. The nearest links to the motorway is located approximately 3 km east of the town center.

On December 4, 1876, the railway line from Solothurn was inaugurated by Lyss with the Lüsslingen station, which was partly in the field of Nennigkofen; However, the track is now closed for passenger traffic. By Postbus course, which serves the route from Solothurn to Bueren an der Aare, Nennigkofen is connected to the network of public transport.

History

The first documentary mention of the place was in the 14th century under the name Hächelkofen; from 1368 the name Hechelkofen is preserved. Since the Middle Ages the village was under the rule Buchegg, which was part of the country Comté. In 1375 it was destroyed by the Guglern. Only after the subsequent reconstruction it received its present name. Later the spellings Nennikofen ( 1392 ) and Nennikoffen ( 1440) have survived. The name goes back to the Germanic personal name Nanno. The suffix - igkofen he means so much as in the courts of the people of Nanno, where so-called relocated farms are meant.

Unlike the other towns of the former manor Buchegg Nennigkofen 1391 remained at Bern and came only after the Reformation in 1539 Solothurn, where it was assigned to the Bailiwick Bucheggberg. Until 1798, the high court was the Bernese district court Zollikofen while Solothurn with the Lüsslingen of court exercised the lower courts. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) belonged Nennigkofen during the Helvetic Republic to the district Biberist and from 1803 to the District Bucheggberg.

In a referendum on 25 September 2011, the voters of Nennigkofen decided by a large majority of the merger with the neighboring community Lüsslingen. Since the voters of Lüsslingen have agreed to this merger, selbige is expected to come on the first Januaro 2013.

Attractions

In the old town several farmhouses ( typical half-timbered buildings ) from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved. Nennigkofen does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish Lüsslingen. In the field of Nennigkofen there are two cup-marked stones, both erratics that were transported by glacial Rhône glacier from the Valais here. The Kindlistein, the larger of the two, is located near the Höhlenwäldli north of the village, the second erratic block is on the Hubel.

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