Rodersdorf

Rodersdorf

Roder village is a municipality in the district of the Canton of Solothurn Dornach in Switzerland.

Geography

Roder village is situated in the northwest of Switzerland, directly on the border with France. The municipal area extends into widely conspicuous manner in the territory of France (Alsace ) into: 88 percent of the municipal boundary are simultaneously Swiss border. The village also located with several other villages in an exclave of the canton of Solothurn, which is enclosed on the Swiss side of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft. Because Roder village is situated on a hill of Jura-Nord foot, had the tram line to Rodersdorf by France be maintained (see Transportation ). From the municipality is around 30 per cent is covered by forest.

Roder village borders the French municipalities Biederthal, Oltingue, Linsdorf, Bettlach, Liebenswiller, Leymen and the Solothurn Metzerlen -Maria Stone.

Traffic

The tram line 10 of the BLT (Basel -Land Transport AG ) runs to the terminus Roder village. Line 10 applies, according to the Belgian coast tram, since 1986 as the second longest tram line in Europe. Since they geographically limited a few miles drive through France and there served the Leymen station, it is considered as the longest international tram line. Previously, the BLT had the suburban railway operated as line 17. Since the railway line is now traveled by tram trains had to be built at the terminus of a turning loop. Germany, to the Alsace belonged has, 1910 the construction of a meter-gauge railway line, the railway line Basel - digger village, only under the condition agreed that even in Leymen a station is built. Even with the car you drive shortest by France, the route via Metzerlen represents a detour

School

In Roder village there is a primary school and a kindergarten. The primary school accompanied the school children through their first 5 years of school, then come into this Oberstufenzentrum Leimental ( OCW ) in Bättwil, where they go with other children from glue tal communities to school. The bonded warehouse is easily accessible by bus and tram, an annual subscription is made available to the children of their communities. Thanks to an agreement with the city of Basel, the children can, after they have completed their 9th grade year at OZ- Leimental, switch to the Basler high schools, there to complete the baccalaureate.

With the inter-cantonal agreement on the harmonization of compulsory education, Harmos, primary school lasts six years now.

History

About two dozen stone axes in the regional collections testify that people were already in the Neolithic in the area. On the occasion of the gas pipeline construction was found in 2000 at a distance of about one hundred and eighty meters ceramics from the Middle Bronze Age. The transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age grave comes a fire in today's settlement area.

In recent years, the manor house of a Roman estate was discovered in the village center and partially excavated. At the same time joined below the present-day settlement on the traces of a Roman blacksmith with over a ton forging slag and on the foundations of a Gallo-Roman small temple. Below the forge were found traces of a Roman water mill, the third on Swiss soil. Scatter of finds throughout the settlement area are indicative of a larger system.

In the area of the Gallo-Roman temple was found a early medieval cemetery. About sixty tombs have been archaeologically investigated. They date from the 6th and 7th centuries and reported in the majority of offerings. The excavations have not yet been evaluated. Another early medieval cemetery was found in the foundations of the Roman mansion.

In the High Middle Ages seems in 1150 to a high noble race of worthies Than. His tenure was over 1168 but appropriated by Emperor Barbarossa the Habsburgs. Whether the line died out or whether the worthies Druckenthaner the transition from loosely ruled Upper Burgundy to firmer organized empire did not want to accept? In any case, it is mentioned along with their relatives Knights of Ratolsdorf ( Roder village) in 1197, a knightly family of worthies Than. Later Rotberg - - In the next generation, the branch line of Rapperch branched off from the Ratolsdorfern.

The Ratolsdorfer was found henceforth in Habsburg service in Alsace, including as bailiffs until they became extinct around 1440. The Rotberg appeared as a village lords over Rodersdorf in their footsteps. In the 15th century the area suffered from the tensions between the Austro -minded chivalry, the cities and the Confederates ( Mörsberger ). The remains of the 1440 discontinued in these confusions village worthies Village / Bisisdorf were discovered on the occasion of the gas pipeline construction from 2000 in what is now the municipality of Roder village. The Rotberg sold then in 1515 the fiefdom Rotberg and their dependent von Habsburg allodium Roder village together with the Leihauser court the people of Solothurn. This harvester village had become solothurnisch and at the same federally.

Among the ecclesiastical conditions: Rodersdorf formed with the communities Biederthal, Liebenswiller Castle and a parish. Biederthal was under Habsburg rule, Liebenswiller also, however, under stood as the prince-bishop's castle, the lords of Wessenberg. After the Thirty Years' War fell Biederthal and Liebenswiller 1648 to France. From then gathered in the parish church of the village Roder Roder Solothurn villages, the French Bidertahler and Liebenswiller and the episcopal castle Thaler.

In contrast to the other villages of the parish Roder village was indeed harassed and damaged in the Thirty Years' War of the warring parties, but escaped relatively unscathed. 1643 the still existing parsonage was built, from 1670 to 1680 the church got its present size.

The French Revolution brought an end to the parish. The whole Upper Rhine was separated from the diocese of Basel and beaten to Strasbourg and, consequently, in 1804, the foreign parishes of Roder village were separated. In general, the Solothurn Leimental was also claimed politically by the French. The separation was never completed and was able to rescue the trapped since 1792 all of France enclave in the new order over to where Roder village was with the subsequent transition to liberal semi-autonomous community today blank.

In 2002 Roder village was the first municipality in Switzerland, which introduced e-government, and in 2003 won the official website of Rodersdorf a media award for the best community website of Switzerland.

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Policy

The parties SP and FDP included in each Rodersdorf a local section. The SVP, CVP and the grouping KWR (climate change Rodersdorf ) are politically no longer active.