Nunningen

Geschichte

Nunningen is a municipality in the district of Thierstein in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.HistoryNunningen is first mentioned in 1152 as Nunningen.GeographyNunningen has an area, of 10.34km2. Of this area, 4.28km2 or 41.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 5.12km2 or 49.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.88km2 or 8.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.01km2 or 0.1% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.4%. Out of the forested land, 47.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 5.5% is used for growing crops and 33.9% is pastures, while 1.6% is used for orchards or vine crops.The municipality is located in the Thierstein district. It consists of the village of Nunningen and the hamlets of Engi mit Mühle and Roderis.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale Sable and Argent two Staffs fleury conterchanged in saltire.DemographicsNunningen has a population of., 7.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of -1.1%. It has changed at a rate of -0.6% due to migration and at a rate of 0.3% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks German (1,750 or 95.0%), with Albanian being second most common (30 or 1.6%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (10 or 0.5%). There are 8 people who speak French and 1 person who speaks Romansh.