Hold SO

SO is the abbreviation for the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Halt .

Hold

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Solothurn Solothurn (SO)
District :	Water authorityw
BFS no. :	2520i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	4566
Coordinates :	612551 / 224444 coordinates: 47 ° 10 '15 " N , 7 ° 36' 15" O ; CH1903: 612551 / 22444447.170836 7.604172 465
Height :	465 m above sea level M.
Height range :	451–484 m above sea level M.
Area :	1.85 km²
Residents:	864 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	467 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.halten.ch
Entrance from Halt, Strasse von Kriegstetten
Location of the municipality
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Hold (in the local dialect Haute ) is a municipality in the Wasseramt district of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland .

geography

Kriegstetten and Halt (right in the picture) as seen from the balloon

Aerial photo (1970)

Halt is at 465 m above sea level. M. , 8 km southeast of the canton capital Solothurn (air line). The village extends east of the canalized Ösch , on the eastern edge of the alluvial plain of the Emme , in the southern Solothurn Mittelland .

The area of the municipal area of 1.9 km² comprises a section of the gently undulating moraine landscape in the outer water office, which was formed by the ice age Rhone glacier . The area extends from the groundwater-rich gravel plain of the Emme eastward over the Ösch to the adjacent hills. In the forest of Zinsibrunnen lies at 485 m above sea level. M. the highest elevation of hold. In 1997, 16% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 21% for forests and woodlands and 63% for agriculture.

Holdings include the new Mülimatt district on the outskirts of Kriegstetten, as well as some individual courtyards. The neighboring communities of Halt are Oekingen , Drei Höfe , Recherswil and Kriegstetten .

population

With 864 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Halte is one of the smaller communities in the canton of Solothurn. 96.8% of the residents speak German, 1.3% speak French and 0.4% speak Italian (as of 2000). The population of Halt was 198 inhabitants in 1850 and 361 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population increased only slightly until 1960 (438 inhabitants). Only since then has there been a significant increase in population combined with a doubling of the number of inhabitants within 40 years.

politics

The municipal council (the executive), including the municipality president, consists of 5 members. The seats were distributed as follows:

Political party	2013-2017	(+/-)	2009-2013
Christian Democratic People's Party	3	+1	2
FDP. The Liberals ( Free Democratic Party until 2009 )	1	−1	2
Social Democratic Party	1		1

economy

Hold was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . The water power of the Ösch was previously used to operate a mill. Even today, arable farming and fruit growing as well as cattle breeding have an important place in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including in companies in the construction industry, in IT and in precision engineering workshops. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many employed people are therefore commuters who work mainly in the Solothurn and Bern regions.

traffic

The community is well developed in terms of traffic, although it is away from the major thoroughfares; the main access is from Kriegstetten . The closest connection to the A1 motorway (Bern-Zurich) is around 2 km from the town center. Halt itself is only connected to the public transport network by a BSU bus line (line 16) between Subingen and Kriegstetten or Steinhof , which runs two to three times a day from Monday to Friday and is primarily used for school traffic. However, the bus routes that serve Kriegstetten are easy to reach from Halt, whose settlement area is directly adjacent to that of Kriegstetten.

history

Tower of Hold

The municipality of Halt was inhabited very early, which is proven by some traces of settlement from the Bronze Age and scattered finds from the Roman era. The first written mention of the place in a document from the Lucerne State Archives comes from the year 1201 with the name Haltun ; from 1274 the name Halton has been handed down. The name is derived from Halde (slope of a hill).

Since 1201 the Lords of Hold have been mentioned, who initially administered the small lordship as servants of the Zähringer , from 1218 the Count of Kyburg . In the Gümmenenkrieg , the castle was ravaged by the Bernese in 1332. The rule included the area between Kriegstetten and Aeschi (SO) as well as Derendingen and, as an exclave, part of Steinhof.

In 1466, the village came with the rule of the last noble owners by purchase under the rule of the city of Solothurn and founded the Vogtei Kriegstetten. It was not until the Wyniger Treaty in 1665 that high jurisdiction over the rule of Kriegstetten was transferred from Bern to Solothurn. After the end of the Ancien Régime in 1798, Halt belonged to the Biberist district during the Helvetic Republic and from 1803 to the Kriegstetten district, which was officially renamed the Wasseramt district in 1988.

Attractions

The approximately 12 m high stone plinth of the residential tower, which was built around 1200, has been preserved from the former Keep Castle. After a fire in 1543, the city of Solothurn had the tower given a new upper floor and a hipped roof and used it as a prison for a long time. Today it belongs to the Museum Wasseramt . In the former moat there are several granaries and an oven house from the 16th to 19th centuries, which were moved here from various locations and form an open-air museum .

A former earth castle is also located at the Mühlerain .

Halt does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Kriegstetten.