Horriwil

Horriwil

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Solothurn Solothurn (SO)
District :	Water authorityw
BFS no. :	2523i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	4557
Coordinates :	614022 / 225836 coordinates: 47 ° 11 '0 " N , 7 ° 37' 25" O ; CH1903: 614022 / 22583647.183327 7.623617 455
Height :	455 m above sea level M.
Height range :	440–503 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.64 km²
Residents:	846 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	320 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.horriwil.ch
Horriwil
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Horriwil (in the local dialect Horriwiu ) is a municipality in the Wasseramt district of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland .

geography

Horriwil lies at 455 m above sea level. M. , as the crow flies 7 km east-southeast of the canton capital Solothurn . The village extends in a small hollow, slightly elevated on the eastern edge of the alluvial plain of the Emme , in the southern Solothurn Mittelland .

Neighboring communities in the north are Subingen , in the east Hüniken and Etziken , in the south the newly founded Drei Höfe in 2013 through a community merger and in the west with the longest community boundary Oekingen .

The area of the 2.6 km² large municipal area comprises a section of the slightly undulating moraine landscape in the outer water office, which was formed by the Ice Age Rhone glacier . The municipal soil extends from the canalized course of the Ösch to the southeast over the flood plain to the adjacent gravel slopes to the extensive forest area of the Buechwald , in which at 501 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Horriwil is reached. In 1997, 13% of the municipal area was in settlements, 27% in forests and woodlands, 59% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

The hamlet of Wil ( 446 m above sea level ) on the eastern edge of the alluvial plain of the Emme and a few individual farms belong to Horriwil .

population

With 846 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) Horriwil is one of the smaller communities in the canton of Solothurn. 97.9% of the residents speak German, 0.6% French and 0.5% speak Italian (as of 2000). The population of Horriwil was 207 in 1850, and 299 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century the population increased only slightly until 1960 (428 inhabitants). Only since then has a significant increase in population been recorded, combined with almost doubling the number of inhabitants within 40 years.

politics

On May 17, 2009, the municipal council consisting of four members came about in a silent election . Due to a conflict of interest that led to a rift in the local council, the council decided in 2011, including the council president Barbara Hofer, to resign . To bridge the gap, the cantonal government commissioned the former mayor of Luterbach, Max Wittwer, as administrator to continue the business. After a few months, the new municipal council consisting of four new members was formed in an equally silent election. With Beat Noll, the post of mayor was also newly occupied. The next municipal council elections for the 2013–2017 term will take place on June 9, 2013.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Horriwil was a village dominated by agriculture . Even today, agriculture and fruit growing as well as cattle breeding have a certain place in the income structure of the population. Numerous other jobs are available in the local small business and in the service sector, including in companies in the construction industry, IT and in precision engineering workshops. Horriwil is the location of the Hof Obermatt retirement home, which was founded in 1982. 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 regions of Solothurn, Herzogenbuchsee and Bern .

traffic

The community is well developed in terms of traffic, although it is located off the main thoroughfares on a connecting road from Kriegstetten to Etziken . The closest connection to the A1 motorway (Bern-Zurich) is around 3 km from the town center. Horriwil is connected to the public transport network by the BSU bus line , which serves the route from Solothurn to Herzogenbuchsee.

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1264 under the name Horgenwile . Later the names Horgunwile (1294), Horchenwile (1341), Horchiwyl (1589) and Horriwyl (1747) appeared. The place name goes back to the Old High German personal name Horag , Horko or Horico and means at the courts of Horag / Horico .

In the Middle Ages , Horriwil initially formed its own small rule. Since the early 14th century, the village was part of the Wangen rule, which was under the sovereignty of the Counts of Neu-Kyburg . Then it changed hands in 1356 to the Counts of Neuchâtel-Nidau, in 1407 to Bern and in 1466 came under the rule of Solothurn with hold, whereby it was 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), Horriwil 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. Horriwil does not have its own church; it belongs to the parish of Kriegstetten.