Mühledorf SO

SO is the abbreviation for the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Mühledorf .

Mühledorf

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Solothurn (SO)

District :

Bucheggberg

Residential municipality :

Buchegg

Postal code :

4583

former BFS no. :

2458

Coordinates :

602 866 / 220571 coordinates: 47 ° 8 '10 " N , 7 ° 28' 35" O ; CH1903: 602,866 / 220571

Height :

557 m above sea level M.

Area :

3.32 km²

Residents:

347 (December 31, 2013)

Population density :

105 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.buchegg-so.ch

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2014

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

geography

Mühledorf lies at 557 m above sea level. M. , nine kilometers south-southwest of the canton capital Solothurn (linear distance ). The elongated street village extends in the hollow of the upper Mühletal, in the center of the Bucheggberg , in the Solothurn Mittelland .

Village church

The area of the municipal area of 3.3 km² covers a section of the Molasse heights of the Bucheggberg. From southwest to northeast, the Mühlebach area is crossed in a relatively narrow valley basin. The valley is flanked in the southeast by the forest heights of Chalgen (at 660 m above sea level, the highest elevation in Mühledorf) and Eichiberg ( 656 m above sea level ) and separated from the plain of the Limpach valley . In the northwest, the municipal ban extends to the heights of Aspli ( 626 m above sea level ) and Wallisberg ( 613 m above sea level ). In a narrow corner, the municipality extends to the southwest over a saddle on the high plateau of Gächliwil and on the Usserholz ( 651 m above sea level ). In 1997, 6% of the municipal area was in settlements, 38% in forests and woodlands, 55% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Some individual farms belong to Mühledorf. Neighboring communities of Mühledorf were Tscheppach , Brügglen , Aetingen , Unterramsern , Aetigkofen , Lüterswil-Gächliwil and Hessigkofen until December 31, 2013 .

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1949

population

With 347 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2013), Mühledorf was one of the small communities in the canton of Solothurn. 97.9% of the residents speak German, 1.2% speak French and 0.3% speak Italian (as of 2000). The population of Mühledorf was 363 in 1850 and 318 in 1900. Over the course of the 20th century, the population hovered between 300 and 320 people before decreasing to 250 in the 1960s. Since 1980 the population has grown continuously again.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Mühledorf was predominantly an agricultural village. The water power of the Mühlebach was previously used by a mill, a sawmill and an oil mill. Shell sandstone was mined in the trestle pit in Usserholz near Aetigkofen, from which mainly millstones were made. Even today, agriculture and fruit growing, as well as cattle breeding and forestry, have an important place in the income structure of the population.

Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. In Mühledorf, in addition to the most important employers, the mill and the large bakery, horticulture, timber construction, painting shops, a sawmill and a carpentry shop are represented. The municipality can thus register more inbound than outbound commuters. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many employed people are therefore commuters who work mainly in the Solothurn, Bern and Grenchen regions.

traffic

Mühledorf is located off the major thoroughfares on a connecting road from Bätterkinden to Arch . Mühledorf is connected to the public transport network through a post bus course , which serves the route from Lohn-Lüterkofen station to Schnottwil , and the Bucheggberg on- call bus .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1261 under the name Mülidorf . Since the Middle Ages, Mühledorf has been under the rule of Buchegg, which was part of the Landgraviate of Burgundy , acquired by Solothurn in 1391 and converted into 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), Mühledorf belonged to the Biberist district during the Helvetic and from 1803 to the Bucheggberg district.

Attractions

Mühledorf had had a chapel since 1338, which for a long time was a well-known place of pilgrimage because of the nearby Sankt Margarethen spring, which was said to have healing properties. The current Reformed Church was built in 1855. The oil mill in the lower part of the village was built in 1774 and is still in operation today on each mill day. Characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries in the Bernese style have been preserved in the town center.

In the Murliwald south of the village there is a so-called shell stone , an erratic block of Hornblende granite that was transported here from the Valais Alps by the Ice Age Rhone glacier .

coat of arms

Blazon

Yellow black mill wheel with four spokes and eight blades

Web links

Commons : Mühledorf SO - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the municipality of Mühledorf (SO)
Thomas Franz Schneider: Mühledorf (SO). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .