Tscheppach

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Solothurn (SO)

District :

Bucheggberg

Residential municipality :

Buchegg

Postal code :

4576

former BFS no. :

2462

Coordinates :

603076 / 221806 coordinates: 47 ° 8 '50 " N , 7 ° 28' 45" O ; CH1903: 603076 / 221806

Height :

558 m above sea level M.

Area :

1.86 km²

Residents:

189 (December 31, 2013)

Population density :

102 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.buchegg-so.ch

View from northwest of the village

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2014

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

geography

Tscheppach lies at 558 m above sea level. M. , eight kilometers southwest of the canton capital Solothurn (linear distance ). The clustered village extends in a small hollow in the center of the Bucheggberg , at the height south of the Biberental, in the Solothurn Mittelland .

The area of the 1.9 km² municipal area comprises a section of the Molasse heights of the Bucheggberg. The central part forms the valley basin of Tscheppach, which is drained to the east through the Hasligraben to the Mühlebach. To the south, the municipality extends over a ridge with the Wallisberg (at 613 m above sea level, the highest elevation in Tscheppach) into the Mühletal. To the north of the valley basin of the Haslibach is a plateau with the Ischlag forest area ( 556 m above sea level ), which slopes further north to the Biberental. The short section of the relatively narrow valley on the middle reaches of the Biberenbach also belongs to Tscheppach. In 1997, 6% of the municipal area was in settlements, 34% in forests and woodland, 59% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Tscheppach includes the new housing estate on the hilltop between the village and the Mühletal as well as some individual farms. Until December 31, 2013, neighboring communities of Tscheppach were Lüterkofen-Ichertswil , Brügglen , Mühledorf , Hessigkofen and Bibern in the canton of Solothurn and Leuzigen in the canton of Bern .

population

With 189 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2013) Tscheppach was one of the smallest communities in the canton of Solothurn. 99.0% of the residents speak German and 0.5% speak Italian (as of 2000). The population of Tscheppach was 212 in 1850 and 162 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century the population fluctuated in the range between 130 and 180 people. Slight population growth has only been recorded since 1990 (146 inhabitants).

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Tscheppach was predominantly an agricultural village. The water power of the village stream was previously used to operate a mill. Even today, arable farming and fruit growing as well as cattle breeding have an important place in the income structure of the population. Other jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including in wood processing and window manufacturing companies. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many employed people are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Solothurn and Grenchen regions.

traffic

Tscheppach is located off the main thoroughfares on a connecting road from Lohn-Ammannsegg to Schnottwil . Tscheppach is connected to the public transport network through a PostBus course , which serves the route from Lohn-Lüterkofen station to Schnottwil, and the Bucheggberg on- call bus .

history

The first documentary mention of the place took place in 1334 under the name Scheppach ; from 1368 the name Schepach has been handed down. Since the Middle Ages Tscheppach 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), Tscheppach belonged to the Biberist district during the Helvetic and from 1803 to the Bucheggberg district.

Attractions

In the town center there are some characteristic farmhouses (half-timbered buildings) from the 18th and 19th centuries. Particularly noteworthy is the Gasthof Kreuz, which was built in 1779 in the Bernese style. Tscheppach does not have its own church; it belongs to the parish of Aetingen-Mühledorf.

coat of arms

Blazon

In yellow and blue wavy bars, accompanied by three (2 over 1) red four-petalled roses with yellow clusters and green sepals

Web links

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

Official website of the municipality
Beat Hodler: Tscheppach. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .