Derendingen

Geschichte

Derendingen is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.HistoryDerendingen is first mentioned in 1264 as Teradingen. Originally an agricultural community, it became a centre of textiles industry in the 1860s. The housing estate Elsässli is now a monument.GeographyDerendingen has an area, of 5.62km2. Of this area, 2.2km2 or 39.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.5km2 or 26.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.83km2 or 32.6% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.08km2 or 1.4% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 18.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.8%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 2.1%. Out of the forested land, 24.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 29.7% is used for growing crops and 8.0% is pastures, while 1.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The municipality is located in the Wasseramt district, on the lower reaches of the Emme river.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.