Winznau

Winznau

Winznau is a municipality in the district of Gösgen the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

Geography

Winznau is located on 403 m above sea level. M., between Olten and Aarau, 2.5 km east-northeast of the city of Olten ( straight line ). The village is located on the northern edge of the wide valley of the Aare Valley, at the foot of the Jura, in the east of Solothurn midlands.

The area of ​​4.0 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Nieder Office. The southern boundary runs along the old Aare. A large part of the water of the Aare is derived from west Winznau into a side channel ( Gösger channel) and used by the location at Niedergösgen power station Olten- Gösgen. The western part of the so-called Schachen, the island between the original course of the Aare and the Gösger channel also belongs to Winznau. From the Aare River, the municipality base ( plain south of Lostorf ) extends northward over the Talniederung and the adjacent gravel terraces down to the Tägermoos and on the Balmis ( 483 m above sea level. M. ).

In a narrow strip of the communal land extends to the northwest, spanning the valley of the village Bach. It extends over the southern foothills of the Jura ( Chöpfli, 507 m above sea level. M., and Stellichopf, 667 m above sea level. M. ), which fall steeply with each rock edge against the Aare bei Olten. In the extreme north-west is on the sunny pasture on the southern slope of the Dottenbergs with 851 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Winznau. From the municipality surface 1997 17 % came from settlements, 42 % of forest and shrubs, 37% to agriculture and a little less than 4% was unproductive land.

To Winznau include various individual farms. Neighboring communities of Winznau are Lostorf, Obergösgen, Dulliken, Olten and Trimbach.

Population

With 1766 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Winznau belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Solothurn. Of the residents 93.8 % are German, 1.6 % and 1.5 % speak Italian albanischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Winznau amounted in 1850 to 350 residents in 1900 to 392 inhabitants. During the 20th century a steady population increase was recorded ( 1970, 1263 inhabitants counted ).

Economy

Winznau was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming, fruit growing and animal husbandry, and forestry have a certain role in the occupational structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. Smaller industrial and commercial zones exist primarily on the eastern edge of the village on the Schachen. Today in Winznau establishments in the construction and transportation industries, horticulture, mechanical workshops, a sandblasting plant and carpentry are represented. Also, there is the regional wastewater treatment plant of waste water disposal association region Olten (with about 46,000 affiliated persons ) between Gösger channel and Aare lying on Winznauer municipality. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions of Olten and Aarau.

Traffic

The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. It lies on the road from Olten along the northern banks of the Aare via Niedergösgen to Aarau. The nearest links to the A1 ( Bern- Zurich ) is located about 8 km from the town center. By bus the BOGG (bus Olten Gösgen Gaeu ), which serves the route from Olten to Erlinsbach SO, Winznau is connected to the public transport network.

History

Winznau can look back on a very long urban tradition. The municipality was, were produced in particular due to the presence of flint, from the prehistoric tools, already inhabited during the Paleolithic period more than 10,000 years ago. From this period various tool finds. Iron Age grave mound in Hardwald indicate a settlement by the Celts. Also from the Roman period have been found small traces of settlement.

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1266 under the name Winzenowa. Later, the names Winznow published ( 1308) and Wintznouwe ( 1360 ). The place name is composed of the Old High German personal name Win ( i) zo, and the word owa (Au) and therefore means something like the Au Win ( i) zo.

Since the Middle Ages Winznau was under the management of the Counts of Frohnburg Buchsgau. In the 13th century, the Ministerialengeschlecht of the Knights of Winznau is detected. In 1367, the village came to the Counts of for IC- 1375 as Habsburg fief to Thiersteiner and 1418 at the Falkensteiner which owned the dominion Gösgen. By buying Winznau came in 1458 to the town of Solothurn and the Bailiwick Gösgen and the district court Dulliken has now been assigned. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) Winznau belonged during the Helvetic Republic to the administrative district of Solothurn and from 1803 to the District Gösgen.

Since the Aare caused each large floods at high tide, the lower terrace was not colonized in the range of Winznau. With the construction of Gösger channel in the time from 1913 to 1917, the Aare was regulated, which drew a significant transformation of the landscape by itself. Large parts of the floodplain were drained and won new cultivated land and settlement area.

Attractions

In the Middle Ages in Winznau the Chapel of St John the Baptist, which had been destroyed during the Reformation turmoil and was only rebuilt in 1644. This chapel was built in 1887 the parish church in the parish Winznau (previously were the first to Winznauer Lostorf, then Obergösgen pfarrgenössig ). 1924 Inauguration of the new parish church of St. Charles Borromeo took place, which was built in neo-Baroque style.

Pictures

Church of Saint Charles Borromeo

Church of Saint Charles Borromeo, Interior

Crossroads in the village center

View of the main street to the south

School

Wooden dwelling house

Coat of arms

Blazon

The coat of arms is based on the erroneously assumed origin of the name of winery