Aetigkofen

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Solothurn (SO)

District :

Bucheggberg

Residential municipality :

Buchegg

Postal code :

4583

former BFS no. :

2441

Coordinates :

602 128 / 219.49 thousand coordinates: 47 ° 7 '35 " N , 7 ° 28' 0" O ; CH1903: six hundred and two thousand one hundred twenty-eight / two hundred nineteen thousand four hundred and ninety

Height :

610 m above sea level M.

Area :

2.03 km²

Residents:

177 (December 31, 2013)

Population density :

87 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.buchegg-so.ch

In Aetigkofen

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Aetigkofen , rarely also written Ätigkofen , was a municipality in the Bucheggberg district of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland until December 31, 2013 . On January 1st, 2014, Aetigkofen merged with the former municipalities of Aetingen , Bibern , Brügglen , Gossliwil , Hessigkofen , Küttigkofen , Kyburg-Buchegg , Mühledorf and Tscheppach to form the new municipality of Buchegg .

geography

Panorama view of Aetigkofen, 2014

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2014

Aetigkofen is at 610 m above sea level. M. , 10 km south-southwest of the canton capital Solothurn (air line). The clustered village extends in a hollow at the beginning of the Mühletal, on the Bucheggberg , in the Solothurn Mittelland .

The area of the 2.0 km² municipal area comprises a section of the Molasse heights of the Bucheggberg. The central part of the area is formed by the Aetigkofen hollow, which gradually descends to the northeast to the Mühletal. This high trough is surrounded by the forest heights Schöniberg (at 654 m above sea level, the highest elevation of Aetigkofen) in the west, Usserwald (up to 645 m above sea level ) in the northwest, Berg ( 653 m above sea level ) in the east and Eggholz ( 646 m above sea level ) in the south. To the south of Berg and Eggholz the slope drops steeply to the Limpach valley , but only the uppermost section of the forest slope belongs to the municipality. To the west, the municipality extends into the headwaters of the Rütibach . In 1997, 6% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 35% for forests and woodlands and 59% for agriculture.

Aetigkofen has a few individual farms. Neighboring communities of Aetigkofen were until December 31, 2013 Mühledorf , Unterramsern , Messen and Lüterswil-Gächliwil .

population

With 177 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2013), Aetigkofen was one of the smallest communities in the canton of Solothurn. 97.8% of the residents speak German and 2.2% speak French (as of 2000). The population of Aetigkofen was 189 inhabitants in 1850 and 150 inhabitants in 1900. In the course of the 20th century the population fluctuated between 130 and 160 inhabitants. Since around 1990 (151 inhabitants) there has been a slight overall increase in population.

economy

Aetigkofen was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . Even today, arable farming and fruit growing as well as cattle breeding have an important place in the income structure of the population. Other jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including in companies in the construction and transport industries. Aetigkofen has had a multi-purpose hall since 1975. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many employed people are therefore commuters who work mainly in the Solothurn and Bern regions.

traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfares on a connecting road from Mühledorf to Schnottwil . Aetigkofen is connected to the public transport network through a PostBus course , which serves the route from Lohn-Lüterkofen train station to Messen , and the Bucheggberg on- call bus .

history

The municipality of Aetigkofen was settled very early, which was proven by finds of Roman traces on the Schöniberg and a presumably Celtic settlement on the Egg.

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1034 under the name Etiquhouen , which probably means in the courts of the Abtad people . Later, the names Eptenchen (1276), Eptikoven (1325) and Ettikofen (1461) appeared. The place name goes back to the Old High German personal name Aptad . With the suffix -igkofen, it means something like the courts of the people of the Aptad, meaning so-called Aussiedlerhöfe .

In the Middle Ages , Aetigkofen belonged to the Buchegg lordship, which was part of the Landgraviate of Burgundy , acquired by Solothurn in 1391 and converted into the Bucheggberg bailiwick. Until 1798 the high jurisdiction lay with the Bernese district court Zollikofen , while Solothurn exercised the lower jurisdiction with the place of jurisdiction Aetingen. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Aetigkofen belonged to the Biberist district during the Helvetic and from 1803 to the Bucheggberg district.

Attractions

Some characteristic farmhouses from the 16th to 18th centuries have been preserved in the old town center. Aetigkofen does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Mühledorf.

coat of arms

Blazon

In yellow on a green three-hill a green fir with a red trunk, in the head of the shield flanked by two red five-petalled roses with a yellow clump

The two roses allude to the coat of arms of the Counts of Buchegg.

Web links

Commons : Aetigkofen - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the municipality of Aetigkofen
Peter Lätt: Aetigkofen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .