Gerlafingen

History

Gerlafingen is first mentioned in 1278 as Nidergerolvingen.

Geography

Gerlafingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 9.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 10.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 82.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.1% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 15.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 44.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 12.4%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.7% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 7.0%. Out of the forested land, 8.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 4.9% is used for growing crops and 3.2% is pastures, while 1.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Wasseramt district, on the eastern bank of the Emme river, about south of Solothurn.

Most-observed species

• European roe deer

  Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  14,551
• red fox

  Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  8,853
• Meadow Brown

  Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  4,965
• European badger

  Meles meles (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  3,071
• Eurasian beaver

  Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 · Mammalia
  2,902
• Alcon Blue

  Maculinea alcon (Denis & Schiffermüller), 1776 · Insecta
  2,837
• Common Blue

  Polyommatus icarus (von Rottemburg, 1775) · Insecta
  2,487
• common frog

  Rana temporaria Linnaeus, 1758 · Amphibia
  2,128

Most recent

• M 4.1 — 2025-07-21
  4 km E of Frutigen, Switzerland
• M 3.5 — 2024-06-27
  1 km SSW of Todtmoos, Germany
• M 4.2 — 2024-06-04
  2 km NNW of Unteriberg, Switzerland
• M 4.4 — 2023-03-22
  1 km NW of Pont-de-Roide, France
• M 3.9 — 2022-09-10
  1 km WSW of Zimmersheim, France
• M 4.1 — 2021-12-24
  2 km WSW of Blamont, France