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Rüttenen
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Rüttenen
Total population
1,460
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Rüttenen is a municipality in the district of Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
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History
Rüttenen is first mentioned in 1474 as Rüti. After 1497 it was known as die rutinen.
Geography
Rüttenen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 22.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 68.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 1.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Out of the forested land, 67.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 13.6% is used for growing crops and 5.0% is pastures and 3.0% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Lebern district, at the foot of the Weissenstein mountains. It consists of the village of Rüttenen and the hamlets of Widlisbach, Oberrüttenen, Galmis, Falleren, Brüggmoos, Kreuzen and Steingrubenquartier which is a suburb of Solothurn.
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Official Identifiers
BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- BFS-Nr
- 2555
- Population (Wikidata)
- 1,462
- Wikidata
- Q66998
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