Rickenbach SO

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SO is the abbreviation for the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Rickenbachf .
Rickenbach
Coat of arms of Rickenbach
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of SolothurnCanton of Solothurn Solothurn (SO)
District : Oltenw
BFS no. : 2582i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 4613
Coordinates : 631719  /  243508 coordinates: 47 ° 20 '30 "  N , 7 ° 51' 30"  O ; CH1903:  631719  /  243508
Height : 429  m above sea level M.
Height range : 415–958 m above sea level M.
Area : 2.76  km²
Residents: 1012 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 367 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.rickenbachso.ch
Dorfstrasse in Rickenbach

Dorfstrasse in Rickenbach
Location of the municipality
Kanton Aargau Kanton Basel-Landschaft Kanton Bern Kanton Luzern Bezirk Gäu Bezirk Gösgen Bezirk Thal Boningen Däniken Dulliken Eppenberg-Wöschnau Fulenbach Gretzenbach Gunzgen Hägendorf Kappel SO Olten Rickenbach SO Schönenwerd Starrkirch-Wil Walterswil SO Wangen bei OltenMap of Rickenbach
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Rickenbach is a municipality in the Olten district in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland . It belongs to the so-called Solothurnian Gäu .

geography

Aerial photo (1970)

Rickenbach is located in the Mittelland at the foot of the Jura .

history

To the south of the Jura, there was a road already in Roman times with numerous Roman villas on its sides. The village got its name from the brook that flows from the Jura through a small gorge ("Ric", Middle High German for bottleneck, ravine) and flows into the Dünnern . The earliest documented mention comes from a land sale by the Counts of Frohburg to the St. Urban monastery in 1288.

In January 2020 it became known that the maximum levels of chlorothalonil in drinking water had been exceeded.

Rickenbach Castle

On the Büntenrain, northwest of the Rickenbach chapel, there is a castle built around 1050 by the Count Kuno von Rheinfelden . After 1080 it passed to the diocese of Basel and was expanded. Already in the first half of the 12th century it was gradually abandoned and used as a quarry in the following centuries.

coat of arms

The village coat of arms shows the white figure of St. Lawrence on a red background , with rust in the right hand and a martyr's palm in the left hand. It was created in 1940 and derived from an old seal. St. Lawrence was the patron saint of the village and patron saint of the chapel as early as the Middle Ages.

Varia

In Rickenbach there is a priory of the Pius Brotherhood .

population

Population development
year Residents
1739 148
1798 228
1829 264
1850 267
1900 383
1950 457
2000 885

Attractions

  • Chapel of St. Laurence

  • Priory of St. Niklaus von Flüe of the Society of St. Pius X.

  • Rickenbacherhof restaurant

literature

  • Paul J. Kopp: Rickenbach in times of change. 1994.
  • Eduard Fischer and Franz Lüthi: Rickenbach and the Sankt-Laurentius-Kapelle. 1970.

Web links

Commons : Rickenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Urs Huber: Negative examples Rickenbach and Trimbach: «K-Tip» publication on drinking water causes a stir. In: solothurnerzeitung.ch . January 22, 2020, accessed January 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Urs Wiesli: Rickenbach (SO). In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., Accessed on May 2, 2014