Lohn-Ammannsegg

Lohn-Ammannsegg
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Solothurn (SO)
District :	Water authority
BFS no. :	2526
Postal code :	4573
Coordinates :	606 549  /  224 280 coordinates: 47 ° 10 '10 "  N , 7 ° 31' 30"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and six thousand five hundred and forty-nine  /  224.28 thousand
Height :	500  m above sea level M.
Height range :	456-564 m above sea level M.
Area :	4.48  km²
Residents:	2814 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	628 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.lohn-ammannsegg.ch
Entrance to Lohn-Ammannsegg, coming from the south (Bätterkinden)
Location of the municipality

Lohn-Ammannsegg is a municipality in the Wasseramt district of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland . The community was created in 1993 through the merger of the previously independent communities of Lohn and Ammannsegg.

geography

The double community of Lohn-Ammannsegg is around 500  m above sea level. M. , 4 km south of the canton capital Solothurn (air line). Both villages extend from a promising location on the sunny slope north of the lower Biberental, in the extreme northeast of the Bucheggberg , in the Solothurn Mittelland .

The area of ​​the 4.5 km² large municipal area comprises a section of the Molasse heights of the Bucheggberg. The southern border mostly runs along the canalised Biberenbach , which emerges from the Bucheggberg into a valley that is more than 1 km wide. From the course of the stream, the municipality extends northward over the flat valley and the gently sloping slope of Lohn-Ammannsegg to the adjacent plateau with the Rütifeld ( 551  m above sea level ), the Lohner Oberwald ( the highest at 564  m above sea level Elevation from Lohn-Ammannsegg) and the Oberholz ( 542  m above sea level ). The clearing island Buechhof ( 535  m above sea level ) is already on the northern side of the plateau facing the Aare valley . In 1997, 20% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 29% for forests and woodlands and 51% for agriculture.

Lohn-Ammannsegg consists of the two districts:

• Lohn, 502  m above sea level M. , on the southern slope of the Lohner Oberwald, 1346 inhabitants (1990) with the Neuhüsli district ( 463  m above sea level ) on the Biberenbach
• Ammannsegg, 490  m above sea level M. , on the southern slope of the Oberholz, 550 inhabitants (1990) with the Heinibühl district ( 475  m above sea level ) on a hill on the northern edge of the Biberental

The settlement areas of both districts have grown together seamlessly today. In addition, some individual farms belong to the community. The neighboring communities of Lohn-Ammannsegg are Lüterkofen-Ichertswil , Lüsslingen-Nennigkofen and Biberist in the canton of Solothurn and Bätterkinden in the canton of Bern .

population

With 2814 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Lohn-Ammannsegg is one of the medium-sized communities in the canton of Solothurn. 95.0% of the residents speak German, 1.8% speak Italian and 0.8% speak French (as of 2000). The population of Lohn-Ammannsegg was 420 inhabitants in 1850 and 502 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century the population continued to grow. Since 1950 (716 inhabitants) there has been an increased population growth with a tripling of the number of inhabitants within 50 years.

politics

The municipal council (the executive) consists of 7 members including the municipality president. The seats were distributed as follows:

Political party	2013-2017	(+/-)	2009-2013	(+/-)	2005-2009
FDP. The Liberals ( Free Democratic Party until 2009 )	4th	−1	5		5
Social Democratic Party	3	+1	2		2

economy

Lohn-Ammannsegg was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . Today agriculture and fruit growing as well as cattle breeding and forestry have only a minor role in the income structure of the population.

Numerous other jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. Various companies have settled in Lohn-Ammannsegg since the 1960s. Commercial and industrial zones are located at Neuhüsli east of the railway line and at the eastern entrance to the village of Ammannsegg. Today, companies in the building and transport industry, the electrical industry, information technology, mechanical engineering, wood and food processing and mechanical workshops are represented in the community. In the last few decades the village has also 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 community has good transport links. It is located on the main road from Solothurn to Bern . The nearest connection to the A1 motorway (Bern-Zurich) is around 6 km from the town center.

On April 10, 1916, the railway line of the Bern-Solothurn regional train with the Lohn-Lüterkofen station (partly in the area of Bätterkinden ) and the Ammannsegg stop was put into operation (the latter has been closed since December 2008). The BSU bus line , which runs from Solothurn to Lohn-Lüterkofen train station, and the Postbus courses from Lohn-Lüterkofen train station to Messen and Schnottwil ensure that the public transport is finely distributed .

history

The municipality of Lohn-Ammannsegg was inhabited very early, which could be proven by some remains from the Neolithic in the junk wood. During Roman times there was an estate at Lohn, which was probably given up at the beginning of the 2nd century AD.

Lohn was first mentioned in a document in 1264 under the name Lon , which is derived from the Old High German word loh (grove). The name Lanha, passed down from 1040, may also refer to wages. Ammannsegg was first mentioned as Amalzeich in 1261 . The spellings Amelseich (1336), Ammelseich (1538) and Ammanseich (1742) appeared later . It was not until 1774 that the name Ammansegg was used . This place name originally meant oak of the Amalolt / Amanold .

Since the Middle Ages , Lohn and Ammannsegg belonged to the Counts of Kyburg-Burgdorf. However, the lower jurisdiction lay with the Sankt-Ursen-Stift in Solothurn and passed to the city of Solothurn in 1347. When the rule of Halt came to Solothurn in 1466, the two villages were assigned to the new Vogtei Kriegstetten and the place of jurisdiction of Biberist. Bern held the high level of jurisdiction over Lohn and Ammannsegg from 1406 before it also came to Solothurn.

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Lohn and Ammannsegg 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. In the 20th century, the two localities worked closely together in various areas (school system, cemetery, civil defense), which finally resulted in the merger on January 1, 1993 to form the new municipality of Lohn-Ammannsegg.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Lohn-Ammannsegg

The devotional chapel, built in 1725, stands by the old village center of Lohn. Two modern church buildings are located roughly in the middle between the old town centers: the reformed church built in 1963 and the catholic church Guthirt from 1973. Bad Ammannsegg was created in 1785 through the conversion of the summer residence of a former Solothurn bailiff. Today it serves as a retirement home.

photos

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  Lohn-Lüterkofen train station

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  reformed Church

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  Catholic Church

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  school

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  Old school house

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  Multipurpose hall

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  Landi at Lohn (SO)

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  Bad-Ammannsegg retirement home

coat of arms

wage		Ammannsegg

The two previous coats of arms were combined into one in 1993 after the municipal merger.

Wages : Blazon

in red, blue wheel nail

Ammannsegg blazon

oak uprooted in red with a brown trunk and branches, green leaves and six yellow fruits; today red and white divided shield with the color-matched emblems

Web links

Commons : Lohn-Ammannsegg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Lohn-Ammannsegg
• Editor: Lohn-Ammannsegg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Urs Zurschmiede: Ammannsegg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Othmar Noser: Wages (SO). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 . 
2. ^ Solothurner Zeitung : This is how the new municipal councils are composed
3. ↑ ^{a b} Solothurner Zeitung : Local council elections: districts Lebern, Bucheggberg and Wasseramt