Selzach

History

Selzach is first mentioned in 1181 as Selsacho.

Geography

Selzach has an area, , of . Of this area, or 50.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 38.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.7% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.6% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.3%. Out of the forested land, 35.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 32.6% is used for growing crops and 9.2% is pastures, while 1.1% is used for orchards or vine crops and 7.3% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Lebern district. It stretches from the Aare river, at an elevation of , to the Hasenmatt mountain on the edge of the Jura Mountains, at an elevation of . It consists of the village of Selzach, the hamlet of Haag and former city of Altreu.

Most-observed species

• European roe deer

  Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  14,938
• red fox

  Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  10,718
• Meadow Brown

  Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  5,584
• European badger

  Meles meles (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  3,479
• Alcon Blue

  Maculinea alcon (Denis & Schiffermüller), 1776 · Insecta
  3,065
• Common Blue

  Polyommatus icarus (von Rottemburg, 1775) · Insecta
  2,942
• Yellow-legged hornet

  Vespa velutina Lepeletier, 1836 · Insecta
  2,735
• common frog

  Rana temporaria Linnaeus, 1758 · Amphibia
  2,728

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 4.4 — 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
• M 3.1 — 2018-05-04
  2 km W of Schliengen, Germany