Zullwil

Geschichte

Zullwil is a municipality in the district of Thierstein in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.GeographyZullwil has an area, of 3.64km2. Of this area, 1.6km2 or 44.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.67km2 or 45.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.35km2 or 9.6% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01km2 or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.6%. Out of the forested land, 43.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 3.3% is used for growing crops and 31.3% is pastures, while 4.9% is used for orchards or vine crops and 4.4% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Quarterly Sable and Argent two Staffs fleury conterchanged in saltire.DemographicsZullwil has a population of., 4.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of -4.9%. It has changed at a rate of -5.4% due to migration and at a rate of -1.1% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks German (570 or 94.1%), with Albanian being second most common (15 or 2.5%) and French being third (4 or 0.7%). There are 2 people who speak Romansh.