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Deitingen
Deitingen is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Deitingen is first mentioned in 1244 as ''Teytingen''. In 1252 it was mentioned as ''Tuetingen''. Geography Deitingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 52.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 24.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 8.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.2%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.7% of the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasseramt (district)
Wasseramt District is one of the ten districts of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland, situated to the south of the canton. Together with the Bucheggberg District, it forms the ''Amtei'' (electoral district) of Wasseramt-Bucheggberg. It has a population of (as of ). Municipalities Wasseramt District contains the following municipalities: Mergers and name changes *On 1 January 1993 the former municipalities of Heinrichswil and Winistorf merged to form the new municipality of Heinrichswil-Winistorf and Ammannsegg and Lohn merged to form the new municipality of Lohn-Ammannsegg. At the same time, Burgäschi merged into the municipality of Aeschi.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz accessed 4 April 2011 *On 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wangen An Der Aare
Wangen an der Aare is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. This small town lies between Olten and Solothurn in rural surroundings on the Aare, a major river of the west-central lowland region of Switzerland, the ''Mittelland''. An ancient wooden covered bridge crosses the Aare at this point. Wangen an der Aare was the administrative centre of the former district of the same name. Transport links Wangen is situated on the Biel/Bienne - Olten railway line and close to the A1 motorway. History Wang(en) means an area at the foot of a slope; in this case the slope in question is almost certainly that of the nearby Jura mountain range. Wangen's coat of arms shows crossed St Peter's keys in blue on a white ground. The nobles (or ''Vögte'') who held the lordship of Wangen adopted this symbol which had been the badge of the Upper Aargau estates of the Abbey of Saint Peter in the Black Forest. The earliest document to be sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derendingen, Switzerland
Derendingen is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Derendingen is first mentioned in 1264 as ''Teradingen''. Originally an agricultural community, it became a centre of textiles industry in the 1860s. The housing estate ''Elsässli'' is now a monument. Geography Derendingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 39.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 26.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 32.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.4% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 18.7% and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wangenried
Wangenried is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Geography Wangenried has an area of . Of this area, 67.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 24.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 6.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). Demographics Wangenried has a population (as of ) of . , 3.5% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 6.1%. Most of the population () speaks German (97.9%), with Italian being second most common ( 0.8%) and French being third ( 0.5%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 53.1% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (17.4%), the FDP (10.8%) and the local small left-wing parties (6.6%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A1 Motorway (Switzerland)
The A1 is a motorway in Switzerland. It follows Switzerland's main east–west axis, from St. Margrethen in northeastern Switzerland's canton of St. Gallen through to Geneva in southwestern Switzerland. The motorway spans 383 km (240 mi). Besides the motorway's main route, it has several branches that are variously numbered A1a, A1h, A1l and A1.1. It was opened for the Swiss national exhibition of 1964. After the construction of the third Baregg Tunnel tube, the traffic jams in this area were reduced, but the Gubrist Tunnel remains with the old capacity as a new point of heavy traffic. The A1 motorway is connected via a taxiway at the hangar 5 with the airfield of Payerne Air Base and can, if necessary, used as runway for take off - and landing. However, this possibility has never been used since the construction of the highway.Book Uno Zero Zero Seite 230 Exit list See also * Transportation in Switzerland Switzerland has a dense network of roads and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subingen
Subingen is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. Geography Subingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 48.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 29.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 20.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.6% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 10.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.2%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.3%. Out of the forested land, 28.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riedholz
Riedholz is a municipality in the district of Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. In 2011 Niederwil merged into Riedholz.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 18 February 2011 History Riedholz is first mentioned in 1367 as ''im Rietholz''. Niederwil is first mentioned in 1292 as ''Lomolzwile''.Geography Following the merger, the new, larger municipality had an area () of . 43.6% was used for agricultural purposes and 39% was forested. Settlement areas took up 14.6% and the total unproductive area took up 2.8% of the total. Riedholz had an area, before the merg ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luterbach
Luterbach is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Luterbach is first mentioned in 1052 as ''lutere Bach'', though this identification is disputed. In 1319 it was mentioned as ''ville Luterbach''. Geography Luterbach has an area, , of . Of this area, or 36.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 26.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 34.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 3.5% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 7.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 15.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 8.2%. Power and water infr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flumenthal
Flumenthal is a municipality in the district of Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. Flumenthal dam The Flumenthal dam was erected in the 1970s on river Aare during the Second Jura water correction in order to regulate the waters of the Seeland's three lakes hydrological system further downstream of the regulating dam Port. Geography Flumenthal has an area, , of . Of this area, or 48.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 24.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 19.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 5.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.6% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.3% of the to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic Party Of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz; SP; rm, Partida Socialdemocrata da la Svizra) or Swiss Socialist Party (french: Parti socialiste suisse, it, Partito Socialista Svizzero; PS), is a political party in Switzerland. The SP has had two representatives on the Federal Council since 1960 and received the second highest total number of votes in the 2019 Swiss federal election. The SP was founded on 21 October 1888 and is currently the second largest of the four leading coalition political parties in Switzerland. It is the only left-leaning party with representatives on the Federal Council, currently Alain Berset and Simonetta Sommaruga. As of September 2019, the SP is the second largest political party in the Federal Assembly. Unlike most other Swiss parties, the SP is the largest pro-European party in Switzerland and supports Swiss membership of the European Union. Additionally, it is strongly opposed to capitalism and ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party (german: Schweizerische Volkspartei, SVP; rm, Partida populara Svizra, PPS), also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre (french: Union démocratique du centre, UDC; it, Unione Democratica di Centro, UDC), is a national-conservative, right-wing populist political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Marco Chiesa, it is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 53 members of the National Council and 6 of the Council of States. The SVP originated in 1971 as a merger of the Party of Farmers, Traders and Independents (BGB) and the Democratic Party, while the BGB, in turn, had been founded in the context of the emerging local farmers' parties in the late 1910s. The SVP initially did not enjoy any increased support beyond that of the BGB, retaining around 11% of the vote through the 1970s and 1980s. This changed however during the 1990s, when the party underwent deep structural and ideological changes under the influence of Christoph Blocher; the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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