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Drei Höfe

Field	Value
subject_name	Drei Höfe
municipality_type	municipality
image_photo	Hersiwil f Hauptstrasse.jpg
image_caption	Heriswil main street
imagepath_coa	DreiHöfe-blazon.svg	pixel_coa=
canton	Solothurn
iso-code-region	CH-SO
district	Wasseramt
coordinates
postal_code	4558
municipality_code	2535
area	4.56
elevation		elevation_description=
population	720	populationof = Dec 2011	popofyear = 2011
neighboring_municipalities	Aeschi, Etziken, Halten, Horriwil, Oekingen
website	www.dreihoefe.ch

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Drei Höfe is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Heinrichswil-Winistorf and Hersiwil merged to form the new municipality of Drei Höfe.

History

Heinrichswil is first mentioned in 1317 as Cristan von Heinrichswile.

Hersiwil is first mentioned in 1324 as Hersenwile. It formed a double municipality with Heinrichswil until 1798, when Winistorf joined the other two to form the triple municipality of Hersiwil-Heinrichswil-Winistorf. In 1854 it split into three, separate, independent municipalities. In 1993, Heinrichswil and Winistorf merged again, but Hersiwil remained independent.

Geography

Aerial view of Heinrichswil, Winistorf and Hersiwil villages

The former municipalities that now make up Drei Höfe have a total combined area of .

Heinrichswil-Winistorf had an area, , of 3.13 km2. Of this area, 1.59 km2 or 50.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.26 km2 or 40.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.25 km2 or 8.0% is settled (buildings or roads). The former municipality is located on a hill built up from a moraine on the road between Halten and Seeberg. It consists of the villages of Heinrichswil and Winistorf.

Hersiwil had an area, , of 1.43 km2. Of this area, 0.97 km2 or 67.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.32 km2 or 22.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.09 km2 or 6.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02 km2 or 1.4% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km2 or 0.7% is unproductive land.

Demographics

The total population of Drei Höfe () is .

Historic Population

The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1100 height:500 PlotArea = top:10 left:100 bottom:90 right:100 Legend = columns:3 left:220 top:70 columnwidth:160 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:700 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 Colors= id:HW value:yellowgreen legend:Heinrichswil-Winistorf id:HE value:green legend:Hersiwil PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:30 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from: 0 till:229 text:"229" color:HW bar:1860 from: 0 till:245 text:"245" color:HW bar:1870 from: 0 till:288 text:"288" color:HW bar:1880 from: 0 till:221 text:"221" color:HW bar:1890 from: 0 till:237 text:"237" color:HW bar:1900 from: 0 till:231 text:"231" color:HW bar:1910 from: 0 till:235 text:"235" color:HW bar:1920 from: 0 till:252 text:"252" color:HW bar:1930 from: 0 till:253 text:"253" color:HW bar:1940 from: 0 till:249 text:"249" color:HW bar:1950 from: 0 till:262 text:"262" color:HW bar:1960 from: 0 till:310 text:"310" color:HW bar:1970 from: 0 till:285 text:"285" color:HW bar:1980 from: 0 till:320 text:"320" color:HW bar:1990 from: 0 till:410 text:"410" color:HW bar:2000 from: 0 till:528 text:"528" color:HW bar:1850 from: 229 till:366 text:"137" color:HE bar:1860 from: 245 till:385 text:"140" color:HE bar:1870 from: 288 till:444 text:"156" color:HE bar:1880 from: 221 till:367 text:"146" color:HE bar:1890 from: 237 till:360 text:"123" color:HE bar:1900 from: 231 till:383 text:"152" color:HE bar:1910 from: 235 till:416 text:"181" color:HE bar:1920 from: 252 till:404 text:"152" color:HE bar:1930 from: 253 till:409 text:"156" color:HE bar:1940 from: 249 till:411 text:"162" color:HE bar:1950 from: 262 till:423 text:"161" color:HE bar:1960 from: 310 till:475 text:"165" color:HE bar:1970 from: 285 till:432 text:"147" color:HE bar:1980 from: 320 till:464 text:"144" color:HE bar:1990 from: 410 till:554 text:"144" color:HE bar:2000 from: 528 till:696 text:"168" color:HE

References

[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/infothek/nomenklaturen/blank/blank/gem_liste/03.html Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz] published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office {{in lang. de accessed 2 January 2013
{{HDS. 1129. Heinrichswil-Winistorf
{{HDS. 1130. Hersiwil
[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/02/03/blank/data/gemeindedaten.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics] 2009 data {{in lang. de accessed 25 March 2010
link. (March 17, 2012 {{in lang). de accessed 29 January 2011

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