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Gretzenbach
Gretzenbach is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Gretzenbach is first mentioned in 778 as ''Grezzinbach'' though this comes from a 10th Century copy of the older original. In 1265 it was mentioned as ''Grezenbach''. Geography Gretzenbach has an area, , of . Of this area, or 41.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 21.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.9% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 10.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.8%. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olten (district)
Olten District is one of the ten districts of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland, situated around the city of Olten. Together with the Gösgen District, it forms the electoral district of Olten-Gösgen. It has a population of (as of ). Municipalities Olten District contains the following municipalities: Mergers and name changes On 1 January 1973 the former municipality of Grod merged into the municipality of Gretzenbach.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz accessed 4 April 2011 Geography Olten has an area, , of . Of this area, or 30.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 42.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 24.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.7% is eit ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safenwil
Safenwil is a municipality in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. History The first settlement in the area was a Roman era estate on a mule track from the Wigger valley toward Vindonissa. This was followed by a small Alamanni camp or settlement. The ''Eberkopf'' (german: Boar's Head) rock carvings date back to 893 AD, though the modern village of Safenwil is first mentioned in 924 as ''Sabenewilare''. In the 13th century the village was under the rule Belp. In the 14th century the Ifenthal family ruled over the village from Scherenberg castle. With the conquest of the Aargau in 1415, the village came under the authority of Bern. Under Bernese rule, Safenwil was located in the Lenzburg District. In 1415 Bern took over the high court rights in the village. The low court right was held by Gösgen in Solothurn after 1458. In 1665 this court also went to Bern. In 1803 it became part of the newly formed Canton of Aargau and was assigned to the Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kölliken
Kölliken is a municipality in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is also home to one of the two most toxic hazardous waste landfills in all of Switzerland. The other site is in Bonfol, Canton Jura. History Kölliken is first mentioned in 924 as ''Cholinchove''. Geography Kölliken has an area, , of . Of this area, or 32.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 43.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 22.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niedergösgen
Niedergösgen is a municipality in the district of Gösgen in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Niedergösgen is first mentioned in 1294 as ''Bözzach''. In 1308 it was mentioned as ''Göskon inferior''. Geography Niedergösgen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 26.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 30.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 6.9% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.9% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 18.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other specia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberentfelden
Oberentfelden is a municipality in the district of Aarau of the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. History Oberentfelden is first mentioned in 965 as ''Endiveld''. In 1306 it was mentioned as ''Oberen-En elt''. Geography Oberentfelden has an area, , of . Of this area, 29.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 42.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 28% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.3%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes). The municipality is located in the Aarau district in the lower Suhr valley. The villages of Oberentfelden and Unterentfelden, while distinct municipalities, have grown together. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is ''Gules on Base wavy per fess wavy of six Azure and Argent a Duck issuant and in chief two Mullets Or.'' Because of the original name ''Endiveld'', which sounded like ''Entenfeld'' (duck field), the duck made it into the blazon. Historians later discovered that ''Endiveld'' originates from ''End ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schönenwerd
Schönenwerd is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. 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.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 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 u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walterswil, Solothurn
Walterswil is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. Geography Walterswil has an area, , of . Of this area, or 53.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.4% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.7%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.3% of the area Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 31.7% is used for growing c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic Party Of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz; SP; rm, Partida Socialdemocrata da la Svizra) or Swiss Socialist Party (french: Parti socialiste suisse, it, Partito Socialista Svizzero; PS), is a political party in Switzerland. The SP has had two representatives on the Federal Council since 1960 and received the second highest total number of votes in the 2019 Swiss federal election. The SP was founded on 21 October 1888 and is currently the second largest of the four leading coalition political parties in Switzerland. It is the only left-leaning party with representatives on the Federal Council, currently Alain Berset and Simonetta Sommaruga. As of September 2019, the SP is the second largest political party in the Federal Assembly. Unlike most other Swiss parties, the SP is the largest pro-European party in Switzerland and supports Swiss membership of the European Union. Additionally, it is strongly opposed to capitalism and main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Swiss Federal Election
Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 November 2007. For the 48th legislative term of the federal parliament (2007–2011), voters in 26 cantons elected all 200 members of the National Council as well as 43 out of 46 members of the Council of States. The other three members of the Council of States for that term of service were elected at an earlier date.The date of the election of the members of the Council of States is a matter of cantonal law. 24 cantons have chosen to let the elections coincide with the federally regulated National Council elections. Two cantons are electing their members of the Council of States at an earlier date: Zug reelected its incumbents Peter Bieri and Rolf Schweiger on 29 October 2006, while Appenzell Innerrhoden elected Ivo Bischofsberger as its on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party (german: Schweizerische Volkspartei, SVP; rm, Partida populara Svizra, PPS), also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre (french: Union démocratique du centre, UDC; it, Unione Democratica di Centro, UDC), is a national-conservative, right-wing populist political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Marco Chiesa, it is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 53 members of the National Council and 6 of the Council of States. The SVP originated in 1971 as a merger of the Party of Farmers, Traders and Independents (BGB) and the Democratic Party, while the BGB, in turn, had been founded in the context of the emerging local farmers' parties in the late 1910s. The SVP initially did not enjoy any increased support beyond that of the BGB, retaining around 11% of the vote through the 1970s and 1980s. This changed however during the 1990s, when the party underwent deep structural and ideological changes under the influence of Christoph Blocher; the SVP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democratic People's Party Of Switzerland
The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (german: Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei der Schweiz, CVP), also called the Christian Democratic Party (french: Parti démocrate-chrétien, PDC), Democratic People's Party ( it, Partito Popolare Democratico, PPD) and Swiss Christian Democratic Party ( rm, ), PCD), was a Christian-democratic political party in Switzerland. On 1 January 2021, it merged with the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland (BDP/PBD) to form The Centre, which now operates at the federal level. The Christian Democratic People's Party will continue to exist at the cantonal level as individual local and regional parties determine their status. Its 28 parliamentary seats in the National Council and 13 parliamentary seats in the Council of States were transferred to the new party, as was its sole executive seat on the Federal Council, held by Viola Amherd. The party was founded as the Catholic Conservative Party in 1912. It peaked in the 1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tertiary Sector Of The Economy
The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the secondary sector (manufacturing). The tertiary sector consists of the provision of Service (economics), services instead of Product (business), end products. Services (also known as "Intangible good, intangible goods") include attention, advice, access, experience and affective labor. The information economy, production of information has been long regarded as a service, but some economists now attribute it to a fourth sector, called the quaternary sector. The tertiary sector involves the provision of services to other businesses as well as to final consumers. Services may involve the transport, distribution (economics), distribution and sale of goods from a producer to a consumer, as may happen in wholesaler, wholesaling and retailer, retaili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
