Hessigkofen

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Solothurn (SO)

District :

Bucheggberg

Residential municipality :

Buchegg

Postal code :

4577

former BFS no. :

2450

Coordinates :

602 128 / 221188 coordinates: 47 ° 8 '30 " N , 7 ° 28' 0" O ; CH1903: six hundred and two thousand one hundred twenty-eight / 221188

Height :

589 m above sea level M.

Area :

2.25 km²

Residents:

270 (December 31, 2013)

Population density :

120 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.buchegg-so.ch

In the center of Hessigkofen

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2014

Until December 31, 2013, Hessigkofen was a municipality in the Bucheggberg district of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland . On January 1, 2014, Hessigkofen merged with the former municipalities of Aetigkofen , Aetingen , Bibern , Brügglen , Gossliwil , Küttigkofen , Kyburg-Buchegg , Mühledorf and Tscheppach to form the new municipality of Buchegg .

geography

Hessigkofen is 589 m above sea level. M. , nine kilometers southwest of the canton capital Solothurn (linear distance ). The clustered village extends in a promising location on a ridge south of the Biberental, in the center of the Bucheggberg , in the Solothurn Mittelland .

The area of the 2.3 km² municipal area comprises a section of the Molasse heights of the Bucheggberg. The area is occupied by the height of Hessigkofen, which gradually slopes towards the east and is drained to the Mühlebach. On its south side, the plateau is flanked by the Aspli hills (at 623 m above sea level, the highest elevation in Hessigkofen) and Wallisberg ( 613 m above sea level ). To the north it descends to the Biberental, of which only the upper valley slope still belongs to Hessigkofen. In the west, the municipality floor extends over the plateau into the municipal forest ( Schwallerhölzli ) and extends here to the upper reaches of the Biberenbach . In 1997, 11% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 33% by forests and woodlands and 56% by agriculture.

A few individual farms belong to Hessigkofen. Neighboring communities of Hessigkofen were until December 31, 2013 Bibern , Tscheppach , Mühledorf , Lüterswil-Gächliwil and Gossliwil .

population

With 270 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2013), Hessigkofen was one of the small communities in the canton of Solothurn. 99.2% of the residents speak German and 0.4% speak French (as of 2000). The population of Hessigkofen was 183 inhabitants in 1850 and 210 inhabitants in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, a slight decrease in population was registered overall. Since around 1960 (181 inhabitants) the village has recorded a continuous increase in population.

economy

Modern house on the main street

Until the second half of the 20th century, Hessigkofen was a village dominated by agriculture . 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 the local small business and in the service sector, including in a mechanical engineering company, in a locksmith's shop and in a printing studio. Hessigkofen is the location of the Bucheggberg district school. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many employed people are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Solothurn and Grenchen regions.

traffic

Entrance to the village from Hessigkofen (coming from Schnottwil)

The former community is located off the main thoroughfares on a connecting road from Lohn-Ammannsegg to Schnottwil . The closest connection to the A5 motorway is around 7 km from the town center. Hessigkofen is connected to the public transport network through a Postbus course , which serves the route from Lohn-Lüterkofen train station to Schnottwil, and the Bucheggberg on- call bus .

history

The municipality of Hessigkofen was inhabited very early, which could be proven by the remains of wall foundations of a Roman settlement. The place was first mentioned in a document in 1034 under the name Esikouven . The names Hessenkofen (1334) and Hessikofen (1341) appeared later . The place name goes back to the Old High German personal name Hadiso or Hesso . With the suffix -igkofen it means something like the courts of the people of Hadiso / Hesso, whereby so-called resettlers are meant.

Since the Middle Ages, Hessigkofen has been under the rule of Buchegg, which was part of the Landgraviate of Burgundy , acquired by Solothurn in 1391 and converted to the Bucheggberg Bailiwick. Until 1798 the high jurisdiction lay with the Bernese district court Zollikofen , while Solothurn exercised the lower jurisdiction with the place of jurisdiction Aetingen . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Hessigkofen belonged to the Biberist district during the Helvetic and from 1803 to the Bucheggberg district.

Attractions

The center of Hessigkofen is characterized by numerous characteristic farmhouses (half-timbered buildings) from the 17th to 19th centuries and is one of the villages of national importance. Ecclesiastically, Hessigkofen belongs to the parish of Aetingen-Mühledorf. In the community forest near Gächliwil there is a mighty erratic block .

coat of arms

Blazon

In yellow above a green three-petalled rose, a red four-petalled rose with a yellow clump and green sepals

The rose alludes to the coat of arms of the Counts of Buchegg.

Web links

Commons : Hessigkofen - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the municipality of Hessigkofen
Othmar Noser: Hessigkofen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .