Kyburg-Buchegg

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Solothurn (SO)

District :

Bucheggberg

Residential municipality :

Buchegg

Postal code :

4586

former BFS no. :

2453

Coordinates :

605604 / 221345 coordinates: 47 ° 8 '35 " N , 7 ° 30' 45" O ; CH1903: 605604 / 221345

Height :

545 m above sea level M.

Area :

1.61 km²

Residents:

338 (December 31, 2013)

Population density :

210 inhabitants per km²

Buchegg Castle

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2014

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

geography

The twin community of Kyburg-Buchegg is located eight kilometers south-southwest of the canton capital Solothurn (beeline). The village of Kyburg extends to 469 m above sea level. M. , at the eastern foot of the Bucheggberg and on the edge of the Limpachtal , while Buchegg at 545 m above sea level. M. is enthroned in a panoramic position on the high plateau of the eastern Bucheggberg.

The area of the 1.6 km² municipal area comprises a section of the Molasse heights of the Bucheggberg in the Solothurn Mittelland . The area is bordered in the southeast by the canalized Limpach. From here, the municipality extends to the west over the agriculturally intensively used level of the Limpachtal and the slope of Kyburg to the high plateau of Buchegg, into which the Höllgrabenbach has deepened a short erosion valley. At the height of the Öfeli east of the forest hill of the Ämit is 572 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Kyburg-Buchegg. The high plateau of Buchegg runs to the northeast in the ridge of the Altisberg ( 494 m above sea level ; northern border of the community). In the far east, the border runs for a short section along the railway line of the Bern-Solothurn regional train. In 1997, 12% of the municipal area was in settlements, 24% in forests and woodlands, 62% in agriculture and a little less than 2% was unproductive land.

In addition to the two districts of Kyburg and Buchegg, the municipality also has a few individual farms. Up until December 31, 2013 , neighboring communities of Kyburg-Buchegg were Aetingen , Brügglen and Küttigkofen in the canton of Solothurn and Bätterkinden in the canton of Bern .

population

With 338 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2013), Kyburg-Buchegg was one of the small communities in the canton of Solothurn. 98.2% of the residents are German-speaking, 0.6% French-speaking and 0.3% speak Romansh (as of 2000). The population of Kyburg-Buchegg was 173 inhabitants in 1850 and 189 inhabitants in 1900. After a slight decrease, the population has continued to grow since 1941 (161 inhabitants).

economy

Kyburg-Buchegg was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . Today arable and fruit growing as well as cattle breeding only play a minor role in the income structure of the population. Other jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including a carpenter's workshop. The most important employer in Kyburg-Buchegg is the Blumenhaus special school home. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community thanks to its attractive location. Many employed people are therefore commuters who work mainly in the Solothurn and Bern regions.

traffic

The former municipality is located away from the larger thoroughfares on a connecting road from Bätterkinden to Mühledorf . Kyburg is connected to the public transport network by a post bus course , which serves the route from Bätterkinden to Messen , and Buchegg is connected to the public transport network by the post bus line from Lohn-Lüterkofen station to Messen. Both villages are also served by the Bucheggberg on- call bus.

history

The community area of Kyburg-Buchegg was settled very early. The oldest finds, including a stone ax, date from the Neolithic ; however , individual remains have also been discovered from Roman times .

Buchegg was first mentioned in a document in 1175 under the name Boucecca , which is made up of the word components beech and egg ( protruding terrain on a steep slope). Kyburg does not appear for the first time as Kÿberg in the scriptures until 1517 and probably has nothing to do with the Burgdorf family of the Counts of Kyburg. It is believed that the name is derived from a merging of chyd (column; namely the Höllgraben) and berg .

The history of Kyburg-Buchegg is closely related to that of the Counts of Buchegg . These are mentioned for the first time around 1130 and had their headquarters in a castle on the site of today's Buchegg castle. Their rule, which was under the Landgraviate of Burgundy , encompassed large parts of the Bucheggberg and the adjacent Limpach valley. In 1276, the rule of Balmegg , which possibly belonged to an early sideline of the Counts of Buchegg, came back to the rule of Buchegg. A small settlement had gradually developed around the castle. After the dynasty of the counts had expired in 1347, the rule came into the possession of the herdsmen of Münsingen. In the course of the Burgdorf Wars , Buchegg Castle was burned down by the Counts of Neu-Kyburg in 1383 and was not rebuilt afterwards.

In 1391 the Buchegg dominion was acquired by Solothurn and converted into the Bucheggberg Vogtei. Until 1798 the high jurisdiction lay with the Bernese district court Zollikofen , while Solothurn exercised the lower jurisdiction with the place of jurisdiction Aetingen . Around 1542, Solothurn built a small prison tower on the site of the castle ruins. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Kyburg-Buchegg belonged to the Biberist district during the Helvetic and from 1803 to the Bucheggberg district. The Höllgrabenbach, which rises above Kyburg, has had healing properties since the 17th century. However, the spring was only taken in the middle of the 19th century and a bath and an inn for spa guests were set up.

Attractions

The Schlösschen Buchegg (also called Buechischlössli ), a simple tower with a hipped roof, was built in 1546 under the Solothurn rule on the site of the former Buchegg Castle and from then on served as a prison. The Buchegg Castle Foundation, established in 1938, set up the local museum of the Bucheggberg district in this tower, which opened in 1956. The Gasthof Bad Kyburg was built in 1851.