Aedermannsdorf

Aedermannsdorf is a municipality in the district of Thal in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

[3] Aedermannsdorf has an area, as of 2009[update], of 12.88 square kilometers (4.97 sq mi).

It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Aedermannsdorf in the Dünnern river valley (German: Dünnerntal).

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent an Angle Plate Gules in bend sinister.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (529 or 97.4%), with Albanian being second most common (6 or 1.1%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (5 or 0.9%).

[9] As of 2008[update], the gender distribution of the population was 53.9% male and 46.1% female.

[7] The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Aedermannsdorf is; 51 children or 9.4% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 120 teenagers or 22.1% are between 7 and 19.

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 54.19% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 238 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 58.6%.

[8] There were 263 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 39.2% of the workforce.

In 2008[update] the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 121.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 34, of which 30 were in agriculture and 4 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 22 or 48.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 10 or 22.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 4 or 8.9% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 6.7% were in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, .

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 395 or 72.7% were Roman Catholic, while 100 or 18.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The education system in the Canton of Solothurn allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten.

All the lower secondary students from Aedermannsdorf attend their school in a neighboring municipality.

Entrance to the municipality
Aerial view (1955)
Houses in Aedermannsdorf
Village chapel, graveyard and houses
Bus station in Aedermannsdorf
Church in Aedermannsdorf
School in Aedermannsdorf