Recherswil

History

Recherswil is first mentioned in 1278 as Richirswile.

Geography

Recherswil has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 20.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.6% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 12.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.1%. Out of the forested land, 20.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 43.6% is used for growing crops and 9.2% is pastures, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Wasseramt district, between the Emme and Oesch rivers.

Most-observed species

• European roe deer

  Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  14,794
• red fox

  Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  8,954
• Meadow Brown

  Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  5,351
• European badger

  Meles meles (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  3,090
• Eurasian beaver

  Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 · Mammalia
  3,085
• Alcon Blue

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

  Polyommatus icarus (von Rottemburg, 1775) · Insecta
  2,633
• Common Toad

  Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Amphibia
  2,441

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