Heinrichswil-Winistorf

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Heinrichswil-Winistorf
Heinrichswil-Winistorf coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of SolothurnCanton of Solothurn Solothurn (SO)
District : Water authorityw
Residential municipality : Three yardsi2
Postal code : 4558
former BFS no. : 2521
Coordinates : 614 977  /  222 998 coordinates: 47 ° 9 '28 "  N , 7 ° 38' 10"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred fourteen thousand nine hundred seventy-seven  /  222998
Height : 475  m above sea level M.
Area : 3.10  km²
Residents: 535 (December 31, 2012)
Population density : 173 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.heinrichswil-winistorf.ch
Heinrichswil (in the center of the picture), Winistorf is on the top left

Heinrichswil (in the center of the picture), Winistorf is on the top left

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Heinrichswil-Winistorf (Switzerland)
Heinrichswil-Winistorf
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2013

Heinrichswil-Winistorf (in the local dialect Heinrichswiu-Winischtorf ) was a political municipality in the Wasseramt district of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland until December 31, 2012 . In 1993 the double community was created from the merger of the previously independent communities Heinrichswil and Winistorf .

On January 1, 2013, Heinrichswil-Winistorf merged with the municipality of Hersiwil to form the new political municipality of Drei Höfe .

geography

Heinrichswil-Winistorf lies at 475  m above sea level. M. , about ten kilometers southeast of the canton capital Solothurn (linear distance ). The village extends in the gently undulating landscape east of the alluvial plain of the Emme , in the southern Solothurn Mittelland .

The area of ​​the 3.1 km² former municipal area comprises a section of the moraine landscape in the outer water authority, which was formed by the ice age Rhone glacier . The central part of the area is taken up by the gravel plain southwest of the Burgäschisees , which is drained by the Chrümelbach to the Ösch . To the north, the former municipality extends into the Aegertenwald , in which at 506  m above sea level. M. the highest elevation of Heinrichswil-Winistorf is reached. In the northwest the area extends over the Ghöch ( 496  m above sea level ) into the Herrenwald and to the edge of the Emme alluvial plain. In 1997, 6% of the former municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 42% for forests and woodlands and 52% for agriculture.

The double community consists of the three districts:

  • Heinrichswil, 478  m above sea level M. , on the northern edge of the Chrümelbach valley plain, 190 inhabitants (1990)
  • Winistorf, 473  m above sea level M. , in the valley of the Chrümelbach, 220 inhabitants (1990)
  • Mösli, 470  m above sea level M. , on the southern edge of the Aegertenwald, in the valley of the Chrümelbach (formerly part of the Winistorf community)

In addition, some individual farms also belong to the former community. Neighboring communities of Heinrichswil-Winistorf were Recherswil , Halt , Hersiwil and Aeschi in the canton of Solothurn and Seeberg , Hellsau , Höchstetten and Willadingen in the canton of Bern .

population

With 535 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012) Heinrichswil-Winistorf was one of the smaller communities in the canton of Solothurn. 97.7% of the residents speak German, 0.4% speak Italian and 0.4% speak English (as of 2000). Heinrichswil-Winistorf had a population of 229 in 1850 and 231 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the total population increased only slightly until 1970 (285 inhabitants). Only since then has there been a significant increase in population combined with a doubling of the number of inhabitants within 30 years.

economy

Heinrichswil-Winistorf was predominantly an agricultural community until the second half of the 20th century . Even today, agriculture and fruit growing, as well as cattle breeding and forestry, 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 the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many employed people are therefore commuters who mainly work in the regions of Solothurn, Herzogenbuchsee and Bern . While only a few new houses have been built in Winistorf so far, Heinrichswil and Mösli have each been expanded to include an important residential area.

traffic

The former community is well developed in terms of traffic, although it is located away from the larger thoroughfares on a connecting road from Kriegstetten to Seeberg . The next connection to the A1 motorway (Bern – Zurich) is around 5 km from the town center. All three Heinrichswil-Winistorf settlements are connected to the public transport network by the BSU bus line , which serves the route from Kriegstetten to Steinhof .

history

The former municipality of Heinrichswil-Winistorf was inhabited early on, which is confirmed by some finds from the Roman era in the Aegertenwald. Heinrichswil was first mentioned in a document in 1317 under the name Heinrichswile , meaning Heinrich's homestead . Winistorf was first mentioned under its current name as early as 1311. Later, the designations appeared Wingisdorf (1345), Windenstorf (1464), Wundistorff (1505) and Winnistorff (1531). This place name goes back to the Old High German personal name Wino .

Both villages had belonged to the rulership of hold since the Middle Ages , came with this in 1466 to the city of Solothurn and were assigned to the Vogtei Kriegstetten. It was not until the Wyniger Treaty in 1665 that the high level of jurisdiction was transferred from Bern to Solothurn. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Heinrichswil and Winistorf belonged to the Biberist district during the Helvetic period and from 1803 to the Kriegstetten district, which was officially renamed the Wasseramt district in 1988. The community does not have its own church; it belongs to the parish of Kriegstetten.

Until 1798 Heinrichswil formed a double community together with the neighboring Hersiwil. Thereafter, the Dreihofgemeinde Heinrichswil-Hersiwil-Winistorf existed until 1854 , before all three places were raised to politically independent communities. Effective January 1, 1993, Heinrichswil and Winistorf merged to form the new Heinrichswil-Winistorf municipality. In 2012, preparations for a merger of the common parish with Hersiwil were under way. The new community is called Drei Höfe , based on the past .

coat of arms

Blazon

Divided three times by rafters by green and white, topped with a black post with a yellow ear

With the community merger, a new coat of arms was designed for the new overall community. It was agreed on the coat of arms of Winistorf and added the green color of the coat of arms of Heinrichswiler.

Attractions

Web links

Commons : Heinrichswil-Winistorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence