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Büsserach
Solothurnvillage
Total population
2,084
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Overview
Büsserach is a municipality in the district of Thierstein in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
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History
Büsserach is first mentioned in 1194 as Buezherach.
Geography
Büsserach has an area, , of . Of this area, or 42.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 46.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 11.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 7.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.9%. Out of the forested land, 43.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 11.1% is used for growing crops and 27.2% is pastures, while 4.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Thierstein district, on the eastern slope of the valley that runs to the Passwang Pass. It consists of the village of Büsserach and Neu-Thierstein Castle.
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Nearby places in Solothurn
- Erschwil1.2 mi away · pop. 892
- Fehren1.8 mi away · pop. 595
- Beinwil SO2.8 mi away · pop. 271
- Zullwil2.8 mi away · pop. 626
- Bärschwil3.2 mi away · pop. 808
- Nunningen3.7 mi away · pop. 1,973
- Hofstetten-Flüh6.2 mi away · pop. 3,136
- Seewen SO6.3 mi away · pop. 1,003
- Flüh6.8 mi away
- Herbetswil7 mi away · pop. 605
- Dornach7.1 mi away · pop. 6,468
- Welschenrohr7.7 mi away · pop. 1,089
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Official Identifiers
BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- BFS-Nr
- 2614
- Population (Wikidata)
- 2,296
- Wikidata
- Q66770
Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image
- • BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771