Tscheppach

View from West of the village

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

Geography

Tscheppach is located on 558 m above sea level. M., 8 km south-west of the main town Canton of Solothurn (air line). The scattered village extends in a small valley in the center of Bucheggberg, at the height of the south Biberentals, in the Solothurn Plateau.

The area of ​​1.9 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Molassehöhen of Bucheggberg. The central part forms the basin of Tscheppach that is drained to the east by the Hasligraben to the mill stream. To the south of the municipality of soil extends over a ridge with the Valais mountain ( 613 m above sea level with. M. the highest elevation of Tscheppach ) into the Mühletal. To the north of the valley of the Haslibachs includes a high surface to the forest area Ischlag ( 556 m above sea level. M. ), the further north slopes down to Biberental. The short stretch of here relatively narrow valley at the middle reaches of the Beaver Bach also belongs to Tscheppach. From the municipality surface 1997 6 % came from settlements, 34 % of forest and shrubs, 59% to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.

To Tscheppach include the new housing development on the crest between the village and the Mühletal as well as some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Tscheppach were up on December 31, 2013 Lüterkofen- Ichertswil, Brügglen, Mill Village, Hessigkofen and beavers in the canton of Solothurn and Leuzigen in Canton Bern.

Population

With 191 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Tscheppach one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Solothurn. Of the residents 99.0 % are German and 0.5 % speak Italian ( as of 2000). The population of Tscheppach amounted in 1850 to 212 residents in 1900 to 162 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated in the range between 130 and 180 people. Only since 1990 (146 inhabitants) a slight population growth was recorded again.

Economy

Tscheppach was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. The water power of the village Bach was formerly used for the operation of a mill. Even today, the farming and fruit growing and cattle breeding 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 wood processing and window fabrication. 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.

Traffic

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

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1334 under the name Scheppach; from 1368 the name Schepach is preserved. Since the Middle Ages Tscheppach 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 ) belonged Tscheppach during the Helvetic Republic to the district Biberist and from 1803 to the District Bucheggberg.

Attractions

In the center some characteristic farmhouses ( half-timbered buildings ) from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved. Particularly noteworthy is the Gasthof Kreuz, which was built in 1779 in the Bernese style. Tscheppach does not have its own church; it belongs to the parish Aetingen mill village.

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