Huggerwald
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District : | Thierstein | |
Residential municipality : | Kleinlützel | |
Coordinates : | 600121 / 252124 | |
Height : | 601 m above sea level M. | |
Entrance from (Ober-) Huggerwald |
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Huggerwald (locally the Huggerwald , formerly also Hoggerwald ) is a hamlet in the municipality of Kleinlützel in the canton of Solothurn , Switzerland .
The agricultural hamlet of Huggerwald is located about 2 km southeast of Kleinlützel and is made up of the
- upper Huggerwald ( location ; also: Ober Huggerwald or simply Huggerwald ) and
- lower Huggerwald ( location ; also: Nieder or Nider Huggerwald )
on the right-hand slope of the Lützel valley . In 1904 there were 24 houses in Huggerwald with 142 inhabitants, all of whom belonged to the Roman Catholic denomination . The place name is to be interpreted as the "forest area of a man named Hugger". In Huggerwald there is a chapel dedicated to Saint Wendelin . Its furnishings include a representation of the Fourteen Holy Helpers on the main altar, various statues from the old parish church of Kleinlützel from 1641 (replaced by a new building in 1924) and an oval painting of the " Immaculata " from the 17th century, originally from the Church of Blauen BL is said to come from.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 2: Emmenholz - Kraialppass . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1904, p. 579, keyword Hoggerwald or Huggerwald (upper and lower) ( scan of the lexicon page ).
- ↑ Huggerwald . In: Markus Gasser, Thomas Franz Schneider (Eds.): The field and settlement names of the Dorneck-Thierstein district (= Solothurn name book ). tape 2 . Schwabe, Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-7965-2658-9 , pp. 361 .
- ^ Johann Brunner: Kleinlützel . Village history. Jeger-Moll, Breitenbach 1972, p. 113-115 .