Bättwil
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 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Solothurn (SO)
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| District : | Dorneck |
| BFS no. : | 2471 |
| Postal code : | 4112 |
| Coordinates : | 605359 / 260 103 |
| Height : | 360 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 329-529 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 1.67 km² |
| Residents: | 1186 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 710 inhabitants per km² |
| Mayor : | François Sandoz |
| Website: | www.baettwil.ch |
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Bättwil is a municipality in the district of Dorneck in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland .
geography
Bättwil lies at 360 m above sea level. M. , 10 km southwest of the city of Basel (linear distance). The former street row village extends in an exclave of the canton of Solothurn in the valley basin of the Haugraben at the northern foot of the Jura , in the rear Leimental , near the border with France .
With an area of 1.7 km², Bättwil is the smallest municipality in the Dorneck district. The municipality includes a small section at the Juranordfuss. In terms of nature, Bättwil lies in the transition area from the gently undulating landscape of the Sundgau hills to the folded Mesozoic rock layers of the northern Jura. The municipal area is traversed from west to east by the Haugraben in a wide valley. This valley is separated from the actual Leimental in the north by the ridge of the Egg, which rises around 20 m higher . The Egg forms the northern border for long stretches; only in a narrow corner does the area extend northwards almost down to the Birsig .
To the south, the municipality extends over the steep forest slope of the Bättwilerberg almost to the Chöpfli (geologically an anticline upstream of the blue chain ), on which at 530 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Bättwil is reached. In the west, the municipal ban extends to the narrow point at which the Binnbach flows out of the Klus von Flüh between Landskron and Chöpfli into the gently undulating hill country. In 2014, 27% of the municipal area was in settlements, 19% in forests and woodlands and 54% in agriculture.
Neighboring communities of Bättwil are Hofstetten-Flüh and Witterswil in the canton of Solothurn, Biel-Benken in the canton of Basel-Landschaft and Leymen in neighboring France.
population
With 1186 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Bättwil is one of the medium-sized communities in the canton of Solothurn. 89.9% of the residents speak German, 2.8% English and 2.4% speak Italian (as of 2000). The population of Bättwil was 135 inhabitants in 1850 and 234 inhabitants in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population increased only very slowly to 286 people until 1970. After that, an exponential growth set in, which led to a quadrupling of the population within 35 years (1990 only 545 inhabitants were counted). Today the settlement and industrial area of Bättwil has grown together almost completely with those of Witterswil and Flüh.
economy
Until the second half of the 20th century, Bättwil was a village dominated by agriculture . Today arable farming , fruit growing (mainly cherry trees) and cattle breeding only play a minor role in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. Since the 1970s, various companies in the construction and transport industry, machine and apparatus engineering and a metal goods factory have set up shop in Bättwil. The community has been the location of the Leimental District School since 1975. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many employees are therefore commuters who work mainly in the Basel region.
traffic
The community is very well developed in terms of transport. It is located on a connecting road from Oberwil (BL) via Flüh to Laufen . The next connection to the high-speed road H18 (Basel-Delémont) is around 7 km from the town center. Through the Tram line 10 of Baselland Transport AG (BLT) that the route from Basel to Rodersdorf operated Bättwil is connected to the public transport network - on nights Fri / Sat and Sat / Sun, however, the bus number N26 of the night network.
history
Finds from Roman times indicate that the Romans were already present in the municipality of Bättwil; however, no actual traces of settlement were discovered. Due to the name ending -wil (derived from the Latin villa , villare ) it is assumed that the area was settled by the Alemanni in the 5th century . The first documentary mention was made in 1244 under the name Betwilre . Later the names Bethwilr (1290) and Bettwil (1520) appeared. The place name goes back to the Old High German personal name Betto and therefore means in the courtyards of Betto .
In the Middle Ages, Bättwil was under the Reichenau monastery . Later the high jurisdiction lay with the Bishop of Basel , while the lower jurisdiction was exercised by the Counts of Thierstein. In 1522, Solothurn claimed, among other things, two thirds of the local rule from the Thiersteiner inheritance and five years later acquired the remaining third. Bättwil was subsequently assigned to the Dorneck bailiwick and the Leimental district court. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village belonged to the Dornach district during the Helvetic Republic and to the Dorneck district from 1803. At the end of the 20th century, the renewed idea of a merger of Bättwil with the neighboring municipality of Witterswil came up, but this was not pursued at this point in time. The merger with the neighboring municipality of Witterswil has been specifically examined since summer 2014. Commissions were formed with Witterswil to examine the effects of a possible merger of the two communities.
Attractions
The chapel of St. Martin (until 1791 Herz-Jesu-Kapelle) was built between 1744 and 1755. Together with Witterswil, Bättwil has been an independent double parish since 1808. The Bättwil mill dates from the 15th century; it was rebuilt in its original form after a fire in 1976. Along the main street are the parish hall (from around 1600) and the old post office (around 1730) as well as a number of characteristic farmhouses from the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Chapel of St. Martin in Bättwil
coat of arms
- Divided with red and white, covered with a right-turned Basel stick in alternating colors
literature
- Gottlieb Loertscher: The art monuments of the canton of Solothurn, Volume III: The districts of Thal, Thierstein, Dorneck. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 38). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1957, DNB 750089342 .
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Bättwil
- Lukas Schenker: Bättwil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Flickr group Bättwil , pictures via Bättwil
Individual evidence
- ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Start of the merger investigations with seven working groups ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Media release of the municipality of Bättwil from September 22, 2014
