Schönwerd

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Schönwerd
Coat of arms of Schönenwerd
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of SolothurnCanton of Solothurn Solothurn (SO)
District : Oltenw
BFS no. : 2583i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 5012
UN / LOCODE : CH SWD
Coordinates : 642 610  /  246973 coordinates: 47 ° 22 '20 "  N , 8 ° 0' 10"  O ; CH1903:  642,610  /  246973
Height : 386  m above sea level M.
Height range : 365–505 m above sea level M.
Area : 3.71  km²
Residents: 4911 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 1324 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.schoenenwerd.ch
Schönwerd

Schönwerd
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 Schönenwerd
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Schönenwerd (in the local dialect of Solothurn [ʃɶnəˈʋeːrd] ) is a municipality in the Olten district of the Swiss canton of Solothurn .

Schönenwerd is best known as the former location of the Bally shoe factories, which shaped the village image and life from the middle of the 19th century until the 1990s. Bally turned Schönenwerd from a farmer to an industrial village with extensive workers' living quarters . Schönenwerd is located on the Aare between Olten and Aarau in the Swiss plateau and at the southern foot of the Jura .

geography

Aerial photo (1948)

The municipality stretches from the Aare in the north and the area of ​​the wide river lowlands to the gentle hills between the Aare valley and the Suhr valley. The municipality borders on Erlinsbach SO , Niedergösgen , Gretzenbach , Kölliken , Oberentfelden and Eppenberg-Wöschnau .

history

The first documentary mention of Schönenwerd is in the will of Bishop Remigius of Strasbourg from March 15, 778 as Werith and Werida "Werd, Insel" in connection with a small monastery on an island in the Aare. Archaeological finds show that the area was inhabited as early as the Neolithic. The place is mentioned for the first time as a beautiful value "beautiful island" in 1332; However, this composite form was not finally established until the 16th century.

Schönenwerd Abbey around 1860

The Romanesque church of St. Leodegar Abbey was built around 1160 and is now the oldest sacred building in the canton of Solothurn. After the unsuccessful siege of the Seefeste Rapperswil SG by the Eight Old Places in April 1388, the returning Bernese and Solothurn residents burned the church (Schönenwerd was part of the Habsburg family at that time ). It was rebuilt in the following years. With Thomas von Falkenstein's sale of the Gösgen estate with all its possessions in 1458, Schönenwerd became Solothurn and, when Solothurn joined in 1481, it became federal. Because the Canton of Solothurn remained Catholic after the turmoil of the Reformation in the 16th century, the Schönenwerd Monastery also remained unchanged. The occupation of the Swiss Confederation in 1798 by French revolutionary troops was less offensive for the monastery. The French imposed a liberal-secular constitution on the whole of Switzerland, which also made St. Leodegar a national “Swiss national good”. Services could still be held, but the parish became very poor. Incidentally, the capital of the “Helvetic Republic” was in neighboring Aarau for several years. After Napoleon's fall in 1815, the ecclesiastical situation improved somewhat and the monastery was restored.

In 1874, in the wake of the Kulturkampf, the liberal Vigier government in Solothurn repealed the monastery . In 1875 a Christian Catholic association was formed with the shoe industrialist Carl Franz Bally as president. Soon a majority of the voting Catholics from Schönenwerd acknowledged the Christian Catholicism, which emerged from the Kulturkampf. Since they held their services in the collegiate church from 1876 with the approval of the Solothurn government, the Roman Catholic pastor was not willing to continue using this church, although the Roman Catholic minority would have been allowed to do so. The “emergency church”, built in 1877 as a result, was only replaced by the current Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption in 1937–1938 .

economy

At the beginning of the 19th century, the village had no more than 500 inhabitants. Only with industrialization and the construction of the railway line and above all with the success of the Bally shoe factory did rapid growth set in. Bally's famous shoe division had to close its doors in the 1990s for economic reasons.

Business enterprises:

Attractions

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traffic

Schönenwerd is on the west-east axis Geneva - St. Gallen of the Swiss Federal Railways , but is only a regional train stop . The regional trains run every hour, plus there are bus connections to Aarau and Olten. There are motorway connections a few kilometers away.

coat of arms

Blazon

Divided twice by red, white and black, covered with a lily divided in white-red-white

The coat of arms goes back to the Barons von Bechburg .

Sons and daughters of the church

literature

  • Philipp Abegg, Georges Bürgin and others: industrial ensembles and «Bally» park in Schönenwerd. Bern 2005, ISBN 3-85782-775-0 (= Swiss Art Guide GSK, Volume 775/776).
  • Otto von Däniken: Schönenwerd. Village history. Schönenwerd 1974.
  • Peter Heim : Kingdom of Bally. Factory owners and workers in Schönenwerd. Hier + Jetzt, Verlag für Kultur und Geschichte, Baden 2000, ISBN 3-906419-21-5 .
  • Rolf Max Kully: Solothurn place names. The names of the cantons, districts and municipalities. Lehrmittelverlag, Solothurn 2003 (Solothurnisches Namenbuch, Vol. 1), ISBN 3-905470-17-9 .

Web links

Commons : Schönenwerd  - 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. ^ Rolf Max Kully: Solothurn place names. The names of the cantons, districts and municipalities. Drucksachenverwaltung / Lehrmittelverlag, Solothurn 2003 (Solothurnisches Namenbuch, Vol. 1), ISBN 3-905470-17-9 , pp. 596–600.
  3. ^ Georges Bürgin, Matthias Stocker, Philipp Abegg, Samuel Rutishauser: Industrial ensembles and park "Bally" in Schönenwerd (Swiss Art Guide, No. 775/776, Series 78). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2005, ISBN 978-3-85782-775-4 .