Emmenspitz SO

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Emmenspitz is the name of the bank area at the confluence of the Emme and the Aare between the municipalities of Zuchwil and Luterbach in the Wasseramt district of the canton of Solothurn (Switzerland).

In its lowest section, the Emme forms the border between Zuchwil on the western side and Luterbach on the eastern side.

Infrastructure

On the Zuchwil side, there are large infrastructure systems for the catchment area of ​​the region around the canton capital Solothurn with its agglomeration , the KEBAG waste incineration plant and the ARA Emmenspitz wastewater treatment plant belonging to the Solothurn-Emme wastewater region association.

Aerial view of the Emmenspitz area

Nature reserve

The approximately 10 hectare Emmenschachen nature reserve is located on the Luterbach area next to the Emme . It was placed under protection by the canton in 1949, i. H. exempt from any management. In 1989 the Federal Council declared it a floodplain area of ​​national importance .

Industrial channels

To the east of the nature reserve, the 19th century factory canal of the industrial communities of Biberist and Derendingen, fed by the Emme, flows into the Aare. Immediately next to this first Emme Canal , another canal was built around 1900, which ran alongside the Aare and operated the machines in the Luterbach hydropower station in Schachen near Deitingen until 1968 . The largest electricity company in the Solothurn region took its name from him: «Society of the Aare and Emme Canal », or AEK for short .

The emmer bar

Until the construction of the Aare power station in Flumenthal , the so-called Emmeriegel was located below the confluence of the Emme and the Aare in their river bed. It consisted of a molasse ridge, on which deposits from the Rhone Glacier during the last Ice Age and debris from the Emme continuously accumulated. During high water, the rock threshold led to the backwater of the Aare and often to floods above Solothurn. This obstacle was removed when the power plant was built during the second correction of the Jura waters .

swell

  • Luterbach village book, 1991
  • Canton of Solothurn: Emme flood protection and revitalization project, 2009
  • AEK: 100 years of AEK, 1894 to 1993
  • Nast, Matthias: flooded - survived - outwitted. The history of the Jura water corrections . Edited by the Nidau ​​Castle Museum Association. Biel 2006. ISBN 3-906140-73-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Solothurn-Emme wastewater association
  2. ↑ Solothurn Heimatschutz: Documentation industrial educational trail

Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '4.4 "  N , 7 ° 34' 16.7"  E ; CH1903:  610051  /  229671