Livers district

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Livers district
Livers district
Basic data
Country: SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of SolothurnCanton of Solothurn Solothurn (SO)
Main town : Grenchen
FSO number : 1107
Area : 117.17  km²
Height range : 417–1445 m above sea level M.
Residents: 45,870 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 391 inhabitants per km²
map
Map of Lebern District

The Lebern district in the canton of Solothurn consists of the city of Grenchen and its surroundings, the western, northern and eastern parts of the surroundings of the city of Solothurn and the rural communities in the east of the district. It belongs to the Amtei Solothurn-Lebern , the capital is Grenchen.

coat of arms

In red gold stake, covered with two and a half black, straight rafters . The rafters symbolize the Jura mountain range .

history

In the older history of the southern part of the Solothurn canton (area at the Jura-Südfuss), the "Leberberg" occupies a special position. During the time of the tribal duchy of Burgundy in the early Middle Ages, together with the region around Biel, it was a cut of this duchy into the tribal duchy of Alemannia . This can be traced back to the Burgundian immigration to around Solothurn in this then otherwise Alemannic area. Above all, the place names with the ending -ach still point to these Burgundian traces.

From around 1400 until the Helvetic Revolution in 1798, Lebern was - albeit partly under a different name - a bailiwick of the canton of Solothurn. From 1798 to 1831 Lebern was part of what was then the Biberist district. Lebern has existed as a separate district since 1831.

Municipalities

As of January 1, 2011

coat of arms Name of the parish Population
(December 31, 2018) 		Area
in km² 		Inhabitants
per km²
Balm near Günsberg Balm near Günsberg 205 5.47 37
Bellach Bellach 5213 5.29 985
Bed laugh Bed laugh 4911 12.19 403
Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus 982 2.51 391
Flumenthal Flumenthal 976 3.11 314
Grenchen Grenchen 17'372 26.03 667
Gunsberg Gunsberg 1175 5.26 223
Hubersdorf Hubersdorf 747 1.35 553
Chamber tube Chamber tube 28 0.95 29
Langendorf Langendorf 3782 1.95 1939
Lommiswil Lommiswil 1536 5.76 267
Oberdorf SO Oberdorf (SO) 1724 11.91 145
Riedholz Riedholz 2310 7.15 323
Rüttenen Rüttenen 1462 8.77 167
Selzach Selzach 3447 19.47 177
Total (15) 45,870 117.17 391

Classification

Today the district is usually divided into three areas:

  • in the Oberleberberg with the communities Grenchen, Bettlach (these two belong to the agglomeration Grenchen) and Selzach
  • in the middle Leberberg with the communities Bellach, Lommiswil, Langendorf, Oberdorf and Rüttenen.
  • and in the Unterleberberg with the rural communities Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus, the eastern part of the municipality of Rüttenen, Balm bei Günsberg, Riedholz, Hubersdorf (these five still belong to the Solothurn agglomeration), Flumenthal, Kammersrohr, Günsberg and Niederwil

Changes in the community

  • Municipalities until 2010

Web links

Commons : District Lebern  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ H.Sigrist et al .: History of the canton of Solothurn, Volume 1: districts Solothurn and livers, 1947
  3. ↑ Federal Statistical Office Generalized Limits 2020.