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Schönenwerd
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Schönenwerd
Total population
4,859
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Overview
Schönenwerd is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
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History
Schönenwerd is first mentioned in 778 as Werith.
Geography
Schönenwerd has an area, , of . Of this area, or 10.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 43.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 41.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 4.8% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 4.8% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 20.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 9.7%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.1% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.3%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 4.6% is used for growing crops and 5.6% is pastures. Of the water in the municipality, 0.5% is in lakes and 4.3% is in rivers and streams. The municipality is located in the Olten district. The village stretches from the collegiate church of St. Leodegar on a hill down toward the Aare river.
Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).
Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
Climate
Air quality
Walkability
Amenities nearby
Wildlife & biodiversity
Earthquake history
Photos
Sights & places nearby
Notable people from here
People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.
Nearby places in Solothurn
- Niedergösgen0.6 mi away · pop. 3,766
- Gretzenbach1.2 mi away · pop. 2,531
- Däniken1.6 mi away · pop. 2,785
- Erlinsbach SO1.7 mi away · pop. 3,327
- Stüsslingen2.1 mi away · pop. 1,034
- Obergösgen2.6 mi away · pop. 2,151
- Dulliken3.2 mi away · pop. 4,765
- Winznau3.5 mi away · pop. 1,807
- Walterswil3.8 mi away · pop. 632
- Mahren4.1 mi away
- Starrkirch-Wil4.2 mi away · pop. 1,660
- Trimbach4.9 mi away · pop. 6,454
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
Nearby airports
Public attention
Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.
Books about Schönenwerd
Search results from Open Library.
Recent natural events nearby
Ground air-quality sensors
Recently spotted species
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Official Identifiers
BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- BFS-Nr
- 2583
- Population (Wikidata)
- 4,910
- Wikidata
- Q66884
Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image
- • BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771