Selzach

Geschichte

Selzach is a municipality in the district of Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.HistorySelzach is first mentioned in 1181 as Selsacho.GeographySelzach has an area, of 19.48km2. Of this area, 9.79km2 or 50.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 7.44km2 or 38.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.79km2 or 9.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.34km2 or 1.7% is either rivers or lakes and 0.11km2 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 428m, to the Hasenmatt mountain on the edge of the Jura Mountains, at an elevation of 1445m. It consists of the village of Selzach, the hamlet of Haag and former city of Altreu.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a Salt Cellar Argent.DemographicsSelzach has a population of., 11.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 9.1%.