Nuglar-St. Pantaleon

Nuglar -St. Pantaleon is a municipality in the district of the Canton of Solothurn Dornach in Switzerland. The place name comes from the Latin word nucariolum ( walnut grove ) and Nugle - Bäntlion is pronounced in the local dialect.

Geography

Nuglar- Sankt Pantaleon is on 488 m above sea level. M., around 4 km southwest of the city of Liestal ( straight line ). Haufendorf Nuglar extends on a sloping plateau to the east, the lower layer stage of Gempenplateaus in the Jura mountains, above the Oristal, in the Black Country boys.

The area of ​​6.3 km ² municipal area includes a portion of the northern Jura. The eastern border is the Orisbach which, at around 200 m wide valley floor and steep valley sides flowing in a sunken valley in the Jura mountains. In the Oristal open to the community spell the Brunnenbachtal and a short little valley, the Nuglar of Saint Pantaleon separates. Between these valleys are the high plateaus of Nuglar and Saint Pantaleon. These gradually increase towards the west before a densely wooded, some 100 m high escarpment to the plateau of the Gempenplateaus follows. The escarpment is divided from south to north by the projections of Schlimmberg (680 m above sea level. M. ), Chanzel (700 m above sea level. M. ) and Disliberg (700 m above sea level. M. ). With 715 m above sea level. M. is achieved the highest elevation of Nuglar- Sankt Pantaleon at the sergeant. The western boundary of the municipality runs mostly on the eastern edge of the Gempenplateaus above the steep drop to the low-lying areas. To the north of the municipality of soil on the plateau of the Muni ( 580 m above sea level. M. ) extends into the Röserental. From the municipality surface 1997 10 % came from settlements, 42 % of forest and shrubs, 47% to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.

To Nuglar- Sankt Pantaleon include the districts Nuglar (487 m above sea level. M. ) on the plateau below the Chanzel, Saint Pantaleon ( 488 m above sea level. M. ) on the plateau below Schlimmberg respectively Herrenberg, the hamlet Neunuglar (360 m above sea. M. ) and Orismühle ( 373 m above sea level. M. ) in Oristal as well as some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Nuglar- Sankt Pantaleon are Buren (SO) and Gempen in the canton of Solothurn and Frenk village, Liestal, Seltisberg and Lupsingen in the canton of Basel-Landschaft.

Population

With 1474 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Nuglar- Sankt Pantaleon is one of the smaller communities of the Canton of Solothurn. Of the residents 96.3 % are German, 0.7 % Italian-speaking and 0.7 % speak English (as of 2000). The population of Nuglar- Sankt Pantaleon amounted in 1850 to 658 residents in 1900 to 666 inhabitants. During the 20th century the population began to slowly but continuously. Only since 1980 (880 inhabitants) a significant population increase was recorded.

Economy

Nuglar- Sankt Pantaleon was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming and the growing of fruit ( especially cherry trees ) as well as the dairy and livestock have an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available, including companies in the construction industry, wood processing and mechanical workshops. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the region Liestal and in the Basel area.

Traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfares on a road from Liestal to Dornach. By Postbus course which operates direct flight from Liestal by Buren, both Nuglar and St. Pantaleon are connected to the public transport network.

History

Show Individual scattered finds that the municipality of Nuglar- Sankt Pantaleon was already inhabited during the Neolithic. In Sankt Pantaleon there was probably a Roman estate.

The first mention of Nuglar was in 1147 under the name Nugerolo. Later, the names Nugerol ( 1156 ), Nugeron ( 1289 ), Nuglen ( 1436 ), Nugler ( 1458 ), Niglars ( 1482 ) and Nuglar ( 1509 ) published. St. Pantaleon is first mentioned in 1285. A settlement must, however, have existed much earlier, which had taken the name of the church patron in the course of the 13th century. Later spellings are Sant Panthaleon ( 1372 ) and Sant Pantlion ( 1470 ).

Since the first mention of Nuglar and Saint Pantaleon belong to the estate of the monastery Beinwil. The secular power had later held the Counts of Thierstein. In 1522 both villages came to Solothurn and the Bailiwick Thierstein have been assigned. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) Nuglar and Saint Pantaleon belonged during the Helvetic Republic to Dornach district and from 1803 to Dorneck. In the 19th century both towns were united into one political municipality.

Attractions

The Catholic parish church of St. Pantaleon, which goes back to a certificate from the 13th century chapel was rebuilt in 1823. Together with the Vicarage (1756 ) and the Meier house (1684 ) and the churchyard and the vicarage garden, it forms a closed church district. In Nuglar, built in 1713 St. Wendelin chapel with a remarkable baroque crucifix. Both town centers have preserved characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries.