Trimbach (Soleure)

Geschichte

Trimbach is a municipality in the district of Gösgen in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.HistoryTrimbach is first mentioned in 1244 as Trinbach.GeographyTrimbach has an area, of 7.62km2. Of this area, 1.77km2 or 23.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.99km2 or 52.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.81km2 or 23.8% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.08km2 or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 11.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.7%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.3%. Out of the forested land, 50.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 3.0% is used for growing crops and 17.7% is pastures, while 1.2% is used for orchards or vine crops and 1.3% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The municipality is located in the Gösgen district, between the Aare river and the Hauenstein Pass. It is part of the suburbs of the city of Olten. It consists of the village of Trimbach and the settlements and individual houses of Rumpel, Miesern, Mahrenacker, Erlimoos and Frohburg.The municipalities of Hauenstein-Ifenthal, Trimbach, Wisen and Olten are considering a merger at a date in the future into the new municipality of with an, undetermined name.