Inkwil

Inkwil
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Oberaargau
BFS no. :	0980
Postal code :	3375
Coordinates :	617 532  /  228038 coordinates: 47 ° 12 '11 "  N , 7 ° 40' 12"  O ; CH1903:  617,532  /  228038
Height :	464  m above sea level M.
Height range :	460–508 m above sea level M.
Area :	3.38  km²
Residents:	626 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	185 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.inkwil.ch
Inkwilersee (Inkwil is partially visible on the far left)
Location of the municipality

Inkwil is a political municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland and consists of the village parts village , Vorstatt and Station . It is located on the five hundred meter long and three hundred meter wide Inkwilersee , which lies on the border with the neighboring Solothurn municipality of Bolken .

history

The area around Inkwil was settled as early as the Stone Age. The village was first mentioned in 1262 as Inchwile . The village belonged to the Counts of Kyburg , after their extinction the Counts of Neu-Kyburg , who sold it to the city of Burgdorf in 1402 .

Performance of the Suworow Cadets 2011 in Inkwil

schools

Inkwil is affiliated with the "Aare-Oenz" school association. In Inkwil there are classes 1 and 2, in Heimenhausen classes 3 - 9 (7 - 9 real class) and in Graben the kindergarten.

population

Population development
year	Residents
1764	154
1850	420
1900	442
1950	507
2000	654

Water supply

The water supply is the responsibility of the municipal association of water supply on the lower Oenz (WVOe). Like many other water suppliers, the WVOe has to contend with chlorothalonil metabolites . Water samples from 2019 showed that the applicable maximum values ​​were exceeded in four of the WVOe's drinking water catchments. As a result of the heat and drought in 2019 , customers were asked in July of the same year to limit their water consumption .

traffic

Inkwil station, 1999

Inkwil was on the Solothurn – Herzogenbuchsee railway line, which was opened in 1857, and had a railway station that was closed in 1992 with the entire railway line for passenger traffic. While the Inkwil – Herzogenbuchsee section was canceled, the Inkwil – Solothurn section has been in operation again as an upgraded Solothurn – Wanzwil line since December 2004 , but no longer has any stops. The community is served by the Solothurn and Surroundings Bus Company (BSU) on the Solothurn – Herzogenbuchsee bus line.

A network of side roads leads through Inkwil to all neighboring communities, the two closest motorway junctions are on the A1 at Wangen an der Aare (approx. 6 km) and Kriegstetten (approx. 8 km).

See also

• List of cultural assets in Inkwil

literature

• T. Käppeli and V. Steingruber: Building inventory of the Inkwil community . 2002

Web links

Commons : Inkwil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Inkwil
• Anne-Marie Dubler : Inkwil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent resident population from STAT-TAB of the BfS , municipalities see also regional portraits 2020 on bfs.admin.ch, accessed on May 29, 2020
2. ↑ http://www.wasserversorgung-oenz.ch/Versorgungsgebiet.htm
3. ↑ https://www.vol.be.ch/vol/de/index/direktion/organisation/kl/publikationen/Mitteilungen.assetref/dam/documents/VOL/KL/de/mitteilungen_result_chlorothalonil.pdf
4. ↑ https://www.be.ch/portal/de/index/mediencenter/medienmitteilungen.meldungNeu.html/portal/de/mektiven/mm/2020/02/20200206_0921_chlorothalonil-metabolitenimtrinkwasserkantonpubliziertdiemesswe
5. ↑ http://www.wasserversorgung-oenz.ch/view/data/5730/Sparsames%20Umiegen%20mit%20Wasser.pdf