Biberist

Geschichte

Biberist is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.HistoryBiberist is first mentioned in 762 as Biberussa. In 1300 Ober- and Unterbiberist were mentioned as ze beiden Biberschon.During the Helvetic Republic it was the capital of the Biberist district.GeographyBiberist has an area, of 12.3km2. Of this area, 4.53km2 or 36.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.19km2 or 34.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 3.25km2 or 26.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.27km2 or 2.2% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 4.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 12.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.5%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.1%. Out of the forested land, 32.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 26.3% is used for growing crops and 8.9% is pastures, while 1.6% 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 Aare rivers south of Solothurn. The two villages of Ober- and Unterbiberist were merged into a single municipality in 1857.The municipalities of Biberist, Derendingen, Luterbach, Bellach, Langendorf and Solothurn are considering a merger at a date in the future into the new municipality of with an, undetermined name.