Witterswil

Geschichte

Witterswil is a municipality in the district of Dorneck in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.GeographyWitterswil has an area, of 2.67km2. Of this area, 1.75km2 or 65.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.53km2 or 19.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.37km2 or 13.9% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 9.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.9%. Out of the forested land, 18.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 46.8% is used for growing crops and 10.5% is pastures, while 8.2% is used for orchards or vine crops.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale Or a Fess Sable and per fess Gules and Argent overall a Semi-Wheel of St. Catherine dimidiated.DemographicsWitterswil has a population of., 11.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 2%.Most of the population speaks German (1,182 or 91.6%), with French being second most common (30 or 2.3%) and Italian being third (27 or 2.1%)., the gender distribution of the population was 50.1% male and 49.9% female. The population was made up of 586 Swiss men (43.0% of the population) and 96 (7.0%) non-Swiss men. There were 595 Swiss women (43.7%) and 85 (6.2%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 260 or about 20.2% were born in Witterswil and lived there in 2000. There were 63 or 4.9% who were born in the same canton, while 744 or 57.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 199 or 15.4% were born outside of Switzerland.