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id="toc-Medieval_city" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Medieval_city"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4</span> <span>Medieval city</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Medieval_city-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Buildings_in_the_medieval_city" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Buildings_in_the_medieval_city"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5</span> <span>Buildings in the medieval city</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Buildings_in_the_medieval_city-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Early_modern_Solothurn" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Early_modern_Solothurn"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span>Early modern Solothurn</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Early_modern_Solothurn-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Modern_Solothurn" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Modern_Solothurn"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7</span> <span>Modern Solothurn</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Modern_Solothurn-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Geography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Geography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Geography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Geography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Coat_of_arms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Coat_of_arms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Coat of arms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Coat_of_arms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Demographics" 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<span>17th century</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-17th_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-18th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#18th_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14.3</span> <span>18th century</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-18th_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-19th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#19th_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14.4</span> <span>19th century</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-19th_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-20th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#20th_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14.5</span> <span>20th century</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-20th_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sport_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sport_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14.6</span> <span>Sport</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sport_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86" title="سولوتورن – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="سولوتورن" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal%C3%B4rro" title="Salôrro – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="Salôrro" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Arpetan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86" title="سولوتورن – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="سولوتورن" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD" title="Золатурн – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Золатурн" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD_(%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4)" title="Залятурн (горад) – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Залятурн (горад)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD" title="Золотурн – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Золотурн" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD" title="Золотурн – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Золотурн" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn_(munisipyo)" title="Solothurn (munisipyo) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Solothurn (munisipyo)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn_(dinas)" title="Solothurn (dinas) – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Solothurn (dinas)" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%8C%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%81%CE%BD" title="Σόλοτουρν – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σόλοτουρν" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soleura" title="Soleura – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Soleura" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soloturno" title="Soloturno – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Soloturno" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86" title="زولوتورن – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="زولوتورن" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soleure" title="Soleure – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Soleure" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B8%EB%A1%9C%ED%88%AC%EB%A5%B8" title="졸로투른 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="졸로투른" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B6%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%B8%D5%A9%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BC%D5%B6" title="Զոլոթուռն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Զոլոթուռն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD" title="Золотурн – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Золотурн" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soletta_(Svizzera)" title="Soletta (Svizzera) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Soletta (Svizzera)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%96%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%9F" title="זולותורן – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="זולותורן" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%96%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%9D%E1%83%97%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="ზოლოთურნი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ზოლოთურნი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD" title="Золотурн – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Золотурн" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solodurum_(urbs)" title="Solodurum (urbs) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Solodurum (urbs)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoloturna" title="Zoloturna – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Zoloturna" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoloturnas" title="Zoloturnas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Zoloturnas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleta" title="Suleta – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Suleta" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%96%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%9D%E1%83%97%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="ზოლოთურნი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ზოლოთურნი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86" title="سولوتورن – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="سولوتورن" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn_(stad)" title="Solothurn (stad) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Solothurn (stad)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BE%E3%83%AD%E3%83%88%E3%82%A5%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B3" title="ゾロトゥルン – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ゾロトゥルン" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD" title="Золотурн – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Золотурн" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86" title="سولوتهورن – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="سولوتهورن" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solura_(miasto)" title="Solura (miasto) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Solura (miasto)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soleura" title="Soleura – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Soleura" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rm mw-list-item"><a href="https://rm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soloturn" title="Soloturn – Romansh" lang="rm" hreflang="rm" data-title="Soloturn" data-language-autonym="Rumantsch" data-language-local-name="Romansh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Rumantsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD" title="Золотурн – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Золотурн" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solloturni" title="Solloturni – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Solloturni" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn_(city)" title="Solothurn (city) – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Solothurn (city)" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn_(mesto)" title="Solothurn (mesto) – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Solothurn (mesto)" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD" title="Золотурн – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Золотурн" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%8B%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%99" title="โซโลทวร์น – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="โซโลทวร์น" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn,_%C4%B0svi%C3%A7re" title="Solothurn, İsviçre – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Solothurn, İsviçre" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD" title="Золотурн – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Золотурн" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86" title="زولوتورن – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="زولوتورن" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%C5%82eta_(Svisara)" title="Sołeta (Svisara) – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="Sołeta (Svisara)" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vèneto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vo mw-list-item"><a href="https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Volapük" lang="vo" hreflang="vo" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Volapük" data-language-local-name="Volapük" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Volapük</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Solothurn" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Winaray</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%A2%E6%B4%9B%E5%9B%BE%E6%81%A9" title="索洛图恩 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="索洛图恩" 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style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Solothurn"><img alt="Solothurn" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:4px"><div>Solothurn</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em"></div><span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Show map of Canton of Solothurn</span></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Solothurn&params=47_12_30_N_7_32_14_E_type:city_region:CH-SO"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">47°12′30″N</span> <span class="longitude">7°32′14″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">47.20833°N 7.53722°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">47.20833; 7.53722</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Switzerland</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland" title="Cantons of Switzerland">Canton</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Canton_of_Solothurn" title="Canton of Solothurn">Solothurn</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Switzerland#Canton_of_Solothurn" title="Districts of Switzerland">District</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Solothurn_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Solothurn District">Solothurn</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Executive_(government)" title="Executive (government)">Executive</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Gemeinderat</i> <br />with 30 members</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Mayor_(Switzerland)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor (Switzerland)">Mayor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Stadtpräsidentin</i><a href="/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Solothurn" title="List of mayors of Solothurn"> (list)</a><br />Stefanie Ingold <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Switzerland" title="Social Democratic Party of Switzerland">SPS/PSS</a><br /><span class="nowrap">(as of 2021)</span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Parliament" title="Parliament">Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>none (Gemeindeversammlung)</i></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-wikidata-34465df301612b4c187d3751abe3e95527f60501-v18_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wikidata-34465df301612b4c187d3751abe3e95527f60501-v18-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">6.28 km<sup>2</sup> (2.42 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"> (Chapel of St Peter)</div></th><td class="infobox-data">432 m (1,417 ft)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(31 December 2018)<sup id="cite_ref-wikidata-ec530bc11859b30590c3a2b24aef795d46432b27-v18_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wikidata-ec530bc11859b30590c3a2b24aef795d46432b27-v18-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">16,777</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">2,700/km<sup>2</sup> (6,900/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Solothurner(in)</i></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_in_Switzerland" title="Time in Switzerland">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+01:00</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">Central European Time</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B02:00" title="UTC+02:00">UTC+02:00</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_European_Summer_Time" title="Central European Summer Time">Central European Summer Time</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Switzerland_and_Liechtenstein" title="Postal codes in Switzerland and Liechtenstein">Postal code(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">4500</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Community_Identification_Number#Switzerland" title="Community Identification Number">SFOS number</a></th><td class="infobox-data">2601</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">CH-SO</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Surrounded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bellach" title="Bellach">Bellach</a>, <a href="/wiki/Biberist" title="Biberist">Biberist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Feldbrunnen-Sankt_Niklaus" class="mw-redirect" title="Feldbrunnen-Sankt Niklaus">Feldbrunnen-Sankt Niklaus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Langendorf,_Switzerland" title="Langendorf, Switzerland">Langendorf</a>, <a href="/wiki/R%C3%BCttenen" title="Rüttenen">Rüttenen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zuchwil" title="Zuchwil">Zuchwil</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_twin_towns_and_sister_cities_in_Switzerland" title="List of twin towns and sister cities in Switzerland">Twin towns</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Heilbronn" title="Heilbronn">Heilbronn</a> (Germany), <a href="/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w" title="Kraków">Kraków</a> (Poland), <a href="/wiki/Le_Landeron" title="Le Landeron">Le Landeron</a> (Switzerland)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stadt-solothurn.ch">www<wbr />.stadt-solothurn<wbr />.ch</a></span> <br /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.media-stat.admin.ch/maps/profile/profile.html?226.2601.en.geoRefStandard">SFSO statistics</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Solothurn</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/ʊər/: 'our' in 'tour'">ʊər</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>,<span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span></span>-/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">SOH</span>-lə-toorn, <span style="font-size:90%">ZOH</span>-</i></a>; <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">German:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="de-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German" title="Help:IPA/Standard German">[ˈzoːlotʊrn]</a></span> <span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" data-ooui="{"_":"mw.Phonos.PhonosButton","href":"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/transcoded\/2\/2f\/De-Solothurn.ogg\/De-Solothurn.ogg.mp3","rel":["nofollow"],"framed":false,"icon":"volumeUp","data":{"ipa":"","text":"","lang":"en","wikibase":"","file":"De-Solothurn.ogg"},"classes":["ext-phonos-PhonosButton","noexcerpt","ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel"]}"><a role="button" tabindex="0" href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2f/De-Solothurn.ogg/De-Solothurn.ogg.mp3" rel="nofollow" aria-label="Play audio" title="Play audio" class="oo-ui-buttonElement-button"><span class="oo-ui-iconElement-icon oo-ui-icon-volumeUp"></span><span class="oo-ui-labelElement-label"></span><span class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:De-Solothurn.ogg" title="File:De-Solothurn.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span>; <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Soleure</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="fr-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/French" title="Help:IPA/French">[sɔlœʁ]</a></span>; <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>: <i lang="it">Soletta</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="it-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Italian" title="Help:IPA/Italian">[soˈletta]</a></span>; <a href="/wiki/Romansh_language" title="Romansh language">Romansh</a>: <i lang="rm"><span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-2" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-labelElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" data-ooui="{"_":"mw.Phonos.PhonosButton","href":"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/transcoded\/5\/58\/Roh-Soloturn.ogg\/Roh-Soloturn.ogg.mp3","rel":["nofollow"],"framed":false,"icon":"volumeUp","label":{"html":"Soloturn"},"data":{"ipa":"","text":"","lang":"en","wikibase":"","file":"Roh-Soloturn.ogg"},"classes":["ext-phonos-PhonosButton","noexcerpt"]}"><a role="button" tabindex="0" href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/58/Roh-Soloturn.ogg/Roh-Soloturn.ogg.mp3" rel="nofollow" aria-label="Play audio" title="Play audio" class="oo-ui-buttonElement-button"><span class="oo-ui-iconElement-icon oo-ui-icon-volumeUp"></span><span class="oo-ui-labelElement-label">Soloturn</span><span class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:Roh-Soloturn.ogg" title="File:Roh-Soloturn.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span></i>) is a <a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Switzerland" class="mw-redirect" title="List of towns in Switzerland">town</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Switzerland" title="Municipalities of Switzerland">municipality</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Capital_(political)" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital (political)">capital</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Canton_of_Solothurn" title="Canton of Solothurn">canton of Solothurn</a> in <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>. It is located in the north-west of Switzerland on the banks of the <a href="/wiki/Aare" title="Aare">Aare</a> and on the foot of the Weissenstein <a href="/wiki/Jura_mountains" class="mw-redirect" title="Jura mountains">Jura mountains</a>. </p><p>The town is the only <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Switzerland" title="Municipalities of Switzerland">municipality</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Solothurn_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Solothurn (district)">district</a> of the same name. </p><p>The town got its name from Salodurum, a Roman-era settlement. From 1530 to 1792 it was the seat of the <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> <a href="/wiki/Ambassador_(diplomacy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ambassador (diplomacy)">ambassador</a> to Switzerland. The pedestrian-only old town was built between 1530 and 1792 and shows an impressive array of <a href="/wiki/Baroque" title="Baroque">Baroque</a> architecture, combining Italian Grandezza, French style, and Swiss ideas. The town has eighteen structures listed as heritage sites. </p><p>The official language of Solothurn is (the Swiss variety of Standard) <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Standard_German" title="Swiss Standard German">German</a>, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the <a href="/wiki/Alemannic_German" title="Alemannic German">Alemannic</a> <a href="/wiki/Swiss_German_(linguistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss German (linguistics)">Swiss German</a> dialect. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pre-Roman_settlement">Pre-Roman settlement</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Pre-Roman settlement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The oldest finds from Solothurn probably date from the <a href="/wiki/Paleolithic" title="Paleolithic">Paleolithic</a> era. The remains of a <a href="/wiki/Mesolithic" title="Mesolithic">Mesolithic</a> camp were discovered in 1986 during renovations of the former <i>Kino Elite</i> building. From the <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a>, only a few scattered items have been discovered.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roman_settlement">Roman settlement</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Roman settlement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Picswiss_SO-19-21.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Picswiss_SO-19-21.jpg/220px-Picswiss_SO-19-21.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Picswiss_SO-19-21.jpg/330px-Picswiss_SO-19-21.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Picswiss_SO-19-21.jpg/440px-Picswiss_SO-19-21.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="333" /></a><figcaption>Modern Wengi bridge; the Roman bridge was north of this point.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Roman_era" title="Switzerland in the Roman era">Roman</a> settlement at Solothurn was probably built around AD 15–25 as a road station and bridge head on the road from <a href="/wiki/Aventicum" title="Aventicum">Aventicum</a> to <a href="/wiki/Augusta_Raurica" title="Augusta Raurica">Augusta Raurica</a> or <a href="/wiki/Vindonissa" title="Vindonissa">Vindonissa</a>. A small <a href="/wiki/Vicus" title="Vicus">vicus</a> or settlement quickly developed around the <a href="/wiki/Castrum" class="mw-redirect" title="Castrum">castrum</a>. Solothurn is first mentioned in 219 as <i>vico salod[uro]</i><sup id="cite_ref-HDS_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on the so-called Eponastein. The name may indicate either that a <a href="/wiki/Celts" title="Celts">Celtic</a> settlement existed on the site before or just be a testimony to the mixed <a href="/wiki/Gallo-Roman_culture" title="Gallo-Roman culture">Gallo-Roman culture</a> in the north-west provinces of the Roman Empire.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_Roman_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_Roman-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It came to be known as <i>Salodurum</i>, this name believed to derive from a Celtic language, possibly meaning "Salo's fort," from the personal name Salo + Proto-Celtic *<i>dūnom</i>, meaning "fort" or "stronghold," likely influenced by the Latin <i>durus</i>, meaning "hard" or "strong," as in other place names. Its strategical importance lay in the position at the approach to the Rhine from southeast. In the 2nd–3rd century AD, the vicus expanded rapidly to fill almost all of what is now the old town of Solothurn, including a portion of today's suburb south of the <a href="/wiki/Aare" title="Aare">Aare</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_Roman_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_Roman-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Roman bridge was probably somewhat above the current Wengibrücke. The Roman era river bed was 40–80 meters (130–260 ft) north of the present Aare. The main street of the Vicus was well below the present main street. In addition to the normal government of the settlement, there were two mayors (magistri), and a six-member college (seviri Augustales), which was entrusted with supporting the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_cult_(ancient_Rome)" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial cult (ancient Rome)">imperial cult</a>. Salodurum was also home to a guard detachment of the <a href="/wiki/Legio_XXII_Primigenia" title="Legio XXII Primigenia">XXII Legion</a>, whose high command was stationed in <a href="/wiki/Mainz" title="Mainz">Mainz</a> in Germany. According to inscriptions, there was a temple of Jupiter, a temple of Apollo Augustus and an altar to the goddess of horses <a href="/wiki/Epona" title="Epona">Epona</a>, who was popular in the Roman military and of Celtic origin. However, the locations of those three temples is not known. There was bath house on the main street and a pottery district in the northwest of the town which have been documented archaeologically. A cemetery with urns and cremation burials on the eastern end of the Vicus was discovered in 1762–63 during the demolition of the old church of St. Ursus. In addition, two Roman tombs were discovered in the same area.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_Roman_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_Roman-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Around 325–350, the unfortified settlement along the road was transformed into a fortified camp or castrum, which covered only half of the former settlement area. A 2–3 meters (6.6–9.8 ft) thick and 9 m (30 ft) high wall was built around the settlement. The new, fortified town was bell-shaped, and is still visible in the <a href="/wiki/Cadastral" class="mw-redirect" title="Cadastral">cadastral</a> map of the town. At various points in the town, large and small pieces of the old Roman wall are still visible in the houses of the old town. The location of a gate in the north and a tower in the south-east corner are known and it is likely that there were additional gates and towers. Almost nothing is known about the buildings inside the walls.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_Early_MA_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_Early_MA-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_Middle_Ages">Early Middle Ages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Early Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hl_Victor_von_Solothurn.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Hl_Victor_von_Solothurn.jpg/170px-Hl_Victor_von_Solothurn.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="287" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Hl_Victor_von_Solothurn.jpg/255px-Hl_Victor_von_Solothurn.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Hl_Victor_von_Solothurn.jpg/340px-Hl_Victor_von_Solothurn.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1668" data-file-height="2820" /></a><figcaption>St. Victor of Solothurn</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Early_Middle_Ages" title="Early Middle Ages">Early Middle Ages</a> there were two settlement centres, a secular settlement in the former castrum and a religious settlement on the grounds of the late-Roman cemeteries outside the walls. Both the religious histories and archeological discoveries indicate that both areas remained inhabited continuously into the Early Middle Ages. The former chapel of St. Stephen inside the castrum was built on the foundation of an earlier, late-Roman building. A burial memorial in the cemetery of the nearby St. Peter's Chapel dates to around the collapse of the Roman Empire. By the middle of the 5th century, St. <a href="/wiki/Eucherius_of_Lyon" title="Eucherius of Lyon">Eucherius of Lyon</a> mentions the martyrdom of St. <a href="/wiki/Ursus_of_Solothurn" title="Ursus of Solothurn">Ursus</a> and St. <a href="/wiki/Victor_of_Solothurn" title="Victor of Solothurn">Victor</a> and a cult of saints in Solothurn. About 500 AD, the <a href="/wiki/Burgundians" title="Burgundians">Burgundian</a> Princess Sedeleuba took the bones of St. Victor to <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a>, while the bones of St. Ursus remained in Solothurn. The church dedicated to the veneration of Saint Ursus is first mentioned in 870.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_Early_MA_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_Early_MA-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Medieval_city">Medieval city</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Medieval city"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Solothurn_Stumpf.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Solothurn_Stumpf.jpg/220px-Solothurn_Stumpf.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="242" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Solothurn_Stumpf.jpg/330px-Solothurn_Stumpf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Solothurn_Stumpf.jpg/440px-Solothurn_Stumpf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1848" data-file-height="2036" /></a><figcaption>Solothurn in 1548</figcaption></figure> <p>During the Early Middle Ages, Solothurn was part of the Kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Lotharingia" title="Lotharingia">Lotharingia</a> (Lorraine). After the collapse of Lotharingia, it became part of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Kingdom_of_Burgundy" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Kingdom of Burgundy">Second Kingdom of Burgundy</a>. In 1033, the Kingdom of Burgundy became part of the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a> and Solothurn gained some independence. In 1038, <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Holy Roman Emperor">Emperor</a> <a href="/wiki/Conrad_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor">Conrad II</a> held court at Solothurn and there crowned his son, <a href="/wiki/Henry_III,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor">Henry III</a> King of Burgundy. The royal court resided in Solothurn on several occasions until 1052, however, there is no evidence of a permanent royal palace. In 1127, it was acquired by the dukes of <a href="/wiki/House_of_Z%C3%A4hringen" title="House of Zähringen">Zähringen</a>. Under the rule of the Zähringens, in 1146, Solothurn's coins are first mentioned. In 1182, <i>causidicus</i> or Zähringen appointed judges first appeared in Solothurn. After the extinction of the Zähringer line in 1218 it became a <a href="/wiki/Free_imperial_city" title="Free imperial city">free imperial city</a> under the Holy Roman Emperor. In 1252, the town council and <a href="/wiki/Schultheiss" class="mw-redirect" title="Schultheiss">Schultheiss</a> or mayor became mostly independent and had their own town seals.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_independent_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_independent-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1251 it was mentioned as <i>saluerre</i> and in 1275 as <i>Solotren</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Starting around 1200, there was a council of nobles in the town. </p><p>In 1252, a group of nobles that could witness and support deeds, known as <i>consuls et cives Solodorenses</i>, first appears in the town. Initially the nobles exercised power over the entire town. However, the <a href="/wiki/Guild" title="Guild">guild</a> movement of the 14th century resulted in a reduction in the power of the nobles and also a restricted guild system in Solothurn. By around 1350, an eleven-member <i>Altrat</i> (Council of Elders) and a 22-member <i>Jungrat</i> (Younger Council) existed in the city. Each of the eleven guilds were represented by a member of the <i>Altrat</i> and two members of the <i>Jungrat</i>. These 33 councillors exercised, together with the mayor, the power of government and helped appoint lawmakers. The members of the two councils were elected each year by the citizens of the city, after which the councils and mayor appointed many of the government officials. The noble families retained some power as the guilds became part of the town council. However, in 1459 the last noble family died out and positions on the council fell to wealthy farmers, butchers and millers.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_government_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_government-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Until the <a href="/wiki/Pogrom" title="Pogrom">pogrom</a> on 1348 during an outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/Plague_(disease)" title="Plague (disease)">plague</a>, there was a small Jewish community in Solothurn.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_Economy_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_Economy-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over the 13th to 15th centuries, the citizens of the city slowly emancipated themselves from the higher nobility. In 1276 and 1280 Emperor <a href="/wiki/Rudolph_I_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Rudolph I of Germany">Rudolf I</a> codified the previously poorly defined rights of the city and granted it the privilege <i>de non Evocando</i> or the right that their citizens were protected from trial in foreign courts. In 1344 Solothurn acquired the right to appoint their own Schultheiss from the Count of Buchegg, which was confirmed by Emperor <a href="/wiki/Charles_IV,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor">Charles IV</a> in 1360. In 1409, Emperor <a href="/wiki/Rupert,_King_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Rupert, King of Germany">Ruprecht</a> extended the <i>de non Evocando</i> privilege to include the royal High Court as well.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_independent_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_independent-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the city grew in power, it bound the Monastery of St. Ursus more closely to the city. In 1251 the city defeated claims made by the Monastery on the right to appoint the Schultheiss. Shortly after the acquisition of the right to the Schultheiss office in 1344, the city came into possession of the <a href="/wiki/Vogt" class="mw-redirect" title="Vogt">vogt</a> right over the Monastery by granting citizenship rights to the former vogt (bailiff), Burkhard Senn the Elder. In 1512–20 the city received the right to appoint <a href="/wiki/Canon_(priest)" class="mw-redirect" title="Canon (priest)">canons</a> and <a href="/wiki/Provost_(religion)" title="Provost (religion)">provosts</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">Pope</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_independent_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_independent-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the alliance with <a href="/wiki/Bern" title="Bern">Bern</a> in 1295, it became part of the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Confederation" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss Confederation">Swiss Confederation</a>. In 1382 the <a href="/wiki/Habsburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Habsburg">Habsburgs</a> attacked the city, involving Solothurn in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sempach" title="Battle of Sempach">Battle of Sempach</a>. By the treaty of two years later, the Habsburgs renounced all claims to the territory of the city. The latter was expanded by acquisition of neighbouring lands in the 15th century, roughly up to the today's canton area. </p><p>In 1481, it obtained full membership in the Swiss Confederation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Buildings_in_the_medieval_city">Buildings in the medieval city</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Buildings in the medieval city"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zentralbibliothek_Solothurn_-_Armoiries_de_Soleure_Die_Statt_Solothurn_1606_-_aa0257.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Zentralbibliothek_Solothurn_-_Armoiries_de_Soleure_Die_Statt_Solothurn_1606_-_aa0257.tif/lossy-page1-220px-Zentralbibliothek_Solothurn_-_Armoiries_de_Soleure_Die_Statt_Solothurn_1606_-_aa0257.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Zentralbibliothek_Solothurn_-_Armoiries_de_Soleure_Die_Statt_Solothurn_1606_-_aa0257.tif/lossy-page1-330px-Zentralbibliothek_Solothurn_-_Armoiries_de_Soleure_Die_Statt_Solothurn_1606_-_aa0257.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Zentralbibliothek_Solothurn_-_Armoiries_de_Soleure_Die_Statt_Solothurn_1606_-_aa0257.tif/lossy-page1-440px-Zentralbibliothek_Solothurn_-_Armoiries_de_Soleure_Die_Statt_Solothurn_1606_-_aa0257.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2185" data-file-height="3011" /></a><figcaption>17th-century coat of arms of the city.</figcaption></figure> <p>Before 1200 there was a Zähringer fortified tower north of the Monastery of St. Ursus. In the first half of the 13th century, a city wall was built around the area of the former castrum as well as the adjoining industrial area to the east and the churches of St. Peter and St. Urs. Near the Monastery of St. Ursus, a <a href="/wiki/Franciscan" class="mw-redirect" title="Franciscan">Franciscan</a> monastery was built, and after 1280 it formed the northern city wall on the eastern part of the city. In 1532, the French embassy with a church and stately home was built in the eastern half of the city. In the western part of Solothurn, the town hall was built. First it was along the main street and in 1476 it moved south of the Franciscan monastery. A main market place grew up along the main street, and in the first half of the 17th century it moved to the northern banks of the Aare. The town hall, market place and clock tower formed the political and economic centre of city life.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_Construction_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_Construction-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_modern_Solothurn">Early modern Solothurn</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Early modern Solothurn"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Solothurn_Baseltor.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Solothurn_Baseltor.JPG/170px-Solothurn_Baseltor.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Solothurn_Baseltor.JPG/255px-Solothurn_Baseltor.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Solothurn_Baseltor.JPG/340px-Solothurn_Baseltor.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The Basel gate was added in the 16th century</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herrliberger_Solothurn.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Herrliberger_Solothurn.jpg/220px-Herrliberger_Solothurn.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Herrliberger_Solothurn.jpg/330px-Herrliberger_Solothurn.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Herrliberger_Solothurn.jpg/440px-Herrliberger_Solothurn.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1341" /></a><figcaption>Solothurn in 1757</figcaption></figure> <p>The medieval cooperative election of the mayor and councillors led to the creation of a nearly hereditary <a href="/wiki/Oligarchy" title="Oligarchy">oligarchy</a> by the 15th century. By the second half of the 16th century, the political voice of citizens was nearly totally suppressed. By the second half of the 17th century, the government was run by a small group of <a href="/wiki/Patrician_(post-Roman_Europe)" title="Patrician (post-Roman Europe)">patricians</a>. The oligarchs were weakened in the 18th century, when in 1718–21 the city council managed to regain some powers. However, in 1682, a new citizenship law prevented wealthy families who had moved into Solothurn from becoming members of the council. While this law reduced the number of people who could be on the city council, the introduction of a secret ballot procedure in 1764 and measures against vote-buying in 1774 allowed more and more non-patrician <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/burgher" class="extiw" title="wikt:burgher">burghers</a> to join the council.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_government_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_government-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the heyday of the patricians in the 17th and 18th centuries, a number of elegant town houses (Reinert House 1692–93, <a href="/wiki/Palais_Besenval" title="Palais Besenval">Palais Besenval</a> 1703–06) and summer residences outside the city (Sommerhaus Vigier 1648–50, <a href="/wiki/Waldegg_Castle" title="Waldegg Castle">Waldegg Castle</a> 1682–86 (now in nearby <a href="/wiki/Feldbrunnen-St._Niklaus" title="Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus">Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus</a>), <a href="/wiki/Steinbrugg_Castle" title="Steinbrugg Castle">Steinbrugg Castle</a> 1665–68 and <a href="/wiki/Blumenstein_Castle" title="Blumenstein Castle">Blumenstein Castle</a> 1725–28) were built. A number of new public buildings were also added including; the Arsenal (1610–19), the town hall with its north staircase tower (1632–34) and its eastern façade (Archive tower 1624, completed 1703–14), the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Jesus">Jesuit</a> church (1680–89), the new Ambassadorenhof (1717–24), the Holy Spirit Hospital in a suburb (1735–1800) and the new <a href="/wiki/Classicism" title="Classicism">classicist</a> Church of St. Ursus (1763–90). In the 16th century the town walls were reinforced with the Basel gate and three round towers.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_Construction_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_Construction-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between 1667 and 1727, following plans by Francesco Polatta, Jacques Le Prestre Tarade and Sébastien de Vauban, the city built fortifications with eleven full and half <a href="/wiki/Bastion" title="Bastion">bastions</a>. The new city wall increased the size of the city by including the eastern suburb of Kreuzacker. Until the 18th century, prisoners were housed in the towers of the medieval and early modern fortifications store. Between 1753 and 1761 a new prison was built outside the city walls, which remained in use into the 20th century. A gallows was first mentioned in 1460 and was located northeast of the city near Feldbrunnen. A second gallows was located to the southwest of the city.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_Construction_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_Construction-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1530 to 1792 it was the seat of the <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> <a href="/wiki/Ambassador_(diplomacy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ambassador (diplomacy)">ambassador</a> to Switzerland. </p><p>The early modern period in Solothurn ended, as in the rest of Switzerland, with the <a href="/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Napoleonic_era" title="Switzerland in the Napoleonic era">French invasion</a> in 1798. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_Solothurn">Modern Solothurn</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Modern Solothurn"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Solothurn_um_1900.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Solothurn_um_1900.jpg/220px-Solothurn_um_1900.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Solothurn_um_1900.jpg/330px-Solothurn_um_1900.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Solothurn_um_1900.jpg/440px-Solothurn_um_1900.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3484" data-file-height="2552" /></a><figcaption>Solothurn in 1900</figcaption></figure> <p>Following the capitulation of Solothurn on 2 March 1798, the French General <a href="/wiki/Balthazar_Alexis_Henri_Schauenburg" title="Balthazar Alexis Henri Schauenburg">Balthazar Alexis Henri Schauenburg</a> set up a provisional government on the following day. The new government met in April to set up the new constitution. The eleven old <i>Vogtei</i> (baillywicks) were replaced by five districts: Solothurn, Biberist, Balsthal, Olten, and Dornach. The municipal <a href="/wiki/B%C3%BCrgergemeinde" title="Bürgergemeinde">Bürgergemeinde</a> laid claim to the assets of the defunct city-state and in 1801 it received the <i>Sönderungsconvention</i>, large estates and extensive forest land outside the town. In 1831 the cantonal parliament withdrew all political power from the eleven city guilds. Over the following years (1831–1842) all the guilds were dissolved. Due to the municipal law of 1859, the enforcement of the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Constitution" title="Swiss Federal Constitution">Federal Constitution</a> of 1874 and the Cantonal Constitution of 1875, an <i>Einwohnergemeinde</i> was created. The <i>Einwohnergemeinde</i> included all residents of the town, as opposed to the more limited <i>Bürgergemeinde</i>. The division of property between residents and the Bürgergemeinde proved to be lengthy and could not be completed until 1978 and then only with the help of the Executive Council.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_19_20_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_19_20-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1828 Solothurn became the seat of the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Basel" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Basel">Bishop of Basel</a>. </p><p>Since 1897, the municipal council has been elected by proportional voting and consists of 30 members and 15 alternate members. As the executive body, it elects the council commission (seven members). Mayor and Vice-Mayor are elected by the people. The municipal assembly is the legislative body. The composition of the council remained remarkably stable between 1917 and 1973. The <a href="/wiki/Free_Democratic_Party_of_Switzerland" title="Free Democratic Party of Switzerland">Liberals</a> held an average of 60% of the seats, the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Switzerland" title="Social Democratic Party of Switzerland">Social Democrats</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_People%27s_Party_of_Switzerland" title="Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland">Conservative People's Party</a> (CVP today), about 20% each. In 1970, the municipality granted voting rights for women. With the emergence of new parties, the Liberals lost its dominant position. 2009, the FDP 30%, SP 23%, CVP 23%, the Greens 17% and 7% of the votes go to the SVP.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_19_20_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_19_20-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rock band <a href="/wiki/Krokus_(band)" title="Krokus (band)">Krokus</a> was formed in Solothurn in 1974. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ETH-BIB-Solothurn-LBS_H1-009731.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/ETH-BIB-Solothurn-LBS_H1-009731.tif/lossy-page1-220px-ETH-BIB-Solothurn-LBS_H1-009731.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/ETH-BIB-Solothurn-LBS_H1-009731.tif/lossy-page1-330px-ETH-BIB-Solothurn-LBS_H1-009731.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/ETH-BIB-Solothurn-LBS_H1-009731.tif/lossy-page1-440px-ETH-BIB-Solothurn-LBS_H1-009731.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6639" data-file-height="4587" /></a><figcaption>Aerial view (1947)</figcaption></figure> <p>Solothurn has an area, as of 2009<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, of 6.28 square kilometers (2.42 sq mi). Of this area, 1.42 km<sup>2</sup> (0.55 sq mi) or 22.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.17 km<sup>2</sup> (0.066 sq mi) or 2.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 4.37 km<sup>2</sup> (1.69 sq mi) or 69.6% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.33 km<sup>2</sup> (0.13 sq mi) or 5.3% is either rivers or lakes.<sup id="cite_ref-BFS_land_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BFS_land-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 4.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 38.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 17.5%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.9% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 7.5%. Out of the forested land, 0.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 14.2% is used for growing crops and 7.0% is pastures, while 1.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.<sup id="cite_ref-BFS_land_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BFS_land-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Solothurn is located in the north-west of Switzerland on the banks of the Aare and on the foot of the Weissenstein <a href="/wiki/Jura_mountains" class="mw-redirect" title="Jura mountains">Jura mountains</a>. </p><p>The municipalities of <a href="/wiki/Biberist" title="Biberist">Biberist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Derendingen,_Switzerland" title="Derendingen, Switzerland">Derendingen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luterbach" title="Luterbach">Luterbach</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bellach" title="Bellach">Bellach</a>, <a href="/wiki/Langendorf,_Switzerland" title="Langendorf, Switzerland">Langendorf</a> and Solothurn are considering a merger at a date in the future into the new municipality of with an, as of 2011<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, undetermined name.<sup id="cite_ref-Fusion_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fusion-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coat_of_arms">Coat of arms</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Coat of arms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Blazon" title="Blazon">blazon</a> of the municipal <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms" title="Coat of arms">coat of arms</a> is <i>Per fess Gules and Argent.</i><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aarebr%C3%BCcke_Westtangente_Solothurn.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Aarebr%C3%BCcke_Westtangente_Solothurn.jpg/220px-Aarebr%C3%BCcke_Westtangente_Solothurn.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Aarebr%C3%BCcke_Westtangente_Solothurn.jpg/330px-Aarebr%C3%BCcke_Westtangente_Solothurn.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Aarebr%C3%BCcke_Westtangente_Solothurn.jpg/440px-Aarebr%C3%BCcke_Westtangente_Solothurn.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2583" data-file-height="1883" /></a><figcaption>Aare Bridge and a newer section of Solothurn</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Solothurn_west_panorama.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Solothurn_west_panorama.jpg/220px-Solothurn_west_panorama.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Solothurn_west_panorama.jpg/330px-Solothurn_west_panorama.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Solothurn_west_panorama.jpg/440px-Solothurn_west_panorama.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1914" data-file-height="1276" /></a><figcaption>View over the old town of Solothurn</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Radio_32_in_Solothurn-2.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Radio_32_in_Solothurn-2.JPG/170px-Radio_32_in_Solothurn-2.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="291" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Radio_32_in_Solothurn-2.JPG/255px-Radio_32_in_Solothurn-2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Radio_32_in_Solothurn-2.JPG/340px-Radio_32_in_Solothurn-2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1590" data-file-height="2724" /></a><figcaption>Radio 32 building in Solothurn</figcaption></figure> <p>Solothurn has a population (as of December 2020<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>) of 16,802.<sup id="cite_ref-Stat2020_SO_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stat2020_SO-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2008<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, 21.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_superweb_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_superweb-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 4.4%.<sup id="cite_ref-SFSO_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFSO-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most of the population (as of 2000<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>) speaks German (13,270 or 85.7%), with <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a> being second most common (469 or 3.0%) and <a href="/wiki/Albanian_language" title="Albanian language">Albanian</a> being third (261 or 1.7%). There are 193 people who speak <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> and 19 people who speak <a href="/wiki/Romansh_language" title="Romansh language">Romansh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-STAT2000_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STAT2000-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2008<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, the gender distribution of the population was 48.1% male and 51.9% female. The population was made up of 5,891 Swiss men (37.0% of the population) and 1,775 (11.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 6,669 Swiss women (41.8%) and 1,604 (10.1%) non-Swiss women.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the population in the municipality 3,864 or about 24.9% were born in Solothurn and lived there in 2000. There were 3,630 or 23.4% who were born in the same canton, while 4,135 or 26.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 3,193 or 20.6% were born outside of Switzerland.<sup id="cite_ref-STAT2000_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STAT2000-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2008<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> there were 115 live births to Swiss citizens and 27 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 190 deaths of Swiss citizens and 10 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 75 while the foreign population increased by 17. There were 8 Swiss men and 13 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 91 non-Swiss men and 78 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 98 and the non-Swiss population increased by 161 people. This represents a <a href="/wiki/Population_growth_rate" class="mw-redirect" title="Population growth rate">population growth rate</a> of 1.7%.<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_superweb_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS_superweb-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The age distribution, as of 2000<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, in Solothurn is; 913 children or 5.9% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 2,013 teenagers or 13.0% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 888 people or 5.7% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old. 4,832 people or 31.2% are between 25 and 44, and 3,678 people or 23.7% are between 45 and 64. The senior population distribution is 2,068 people or 13.4% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 1,097 people or 7.1% who are over 80.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2000<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, there were 6,784 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 6,403 married individuals, 1,144 widows or widowers and 1,158 individuals who are divorced.<sup id="cite_ref-STAT2000_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STAT2000-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2000<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, there were 7,447 private households in the municipality, and an average of 1.9 persons per household.<sup id="cite_ref-SFSO_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFSO-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were 3,468 households that consist of only one person and 303 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 7,625 households that answered this question, 45.5% were households made up of just one person and there were 49 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 1,907 married couples without children, 1,455 married couples with children. There were 405 single parents with a child or children. There were 163 households that were made up of unrelated people and 178 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.<sup id="cite_ref-STAT2000_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STAT2000-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> there were 1,311 single family homes (or 44.3% of the total) out of a total of 2,957 inhabited buildings. There were 838 multi-family buildings (28.3%), along with 441 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (14.9%) and 367 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (12.4%). Of the single family homes 161 were built before 1919, while 62 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (443) were built between 1919 and 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-Housing_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Housing-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> there were 8,586 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 2,954. There were 728 single room apartments and 1,634 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 7,272 apartments (84.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 794 apartments (9.2%) were seasonally occupied and 520 apartments (6.1%) were empty.<sup id="cite_ref-Housing_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Housing-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2009<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, the construction rate of new housing units was 3.3 new units per 1000 residents.<sup id="cite_ref-SFSO_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFSO-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2003<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> the average price to rent an average apartment in Solothurn was 980.18 <a href="/wiki/Swiss_franc" title="Swiss franc">Swiss francs</a> (CHF) per month (US$1043, £760, €852) approx. exchange rate from March 4, 2018). The average rate for a one-room apartment was 568.85 CHF (US$605, £438, €495), a two-room apartment was about 725.13 CHF (US$772, £558, €631), a three-room apartment was about 904.51 CHF (US$962, £696, €787) and a six or more room apartment cost an average of 1564.78 CHF (US$1665, £1204, €1361). The average apartment price in Solothurn was 87.8% of the national average of 1116 CHF.<sup id="cite_ref-BFS_rent_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BFS_rent-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, was 0.45%.<sup id="cite_ref-SFSO_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFSO-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_population">Historical population</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Historical population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The historical population is given in the following chart:<sup id="cite_ref-HDS_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HDS-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="timeline-wrapper"><map name="timeline_bynxf1c1rj6zf34p2yzx59noqr27vbr"></map><img usemap="#timeline_bynxf1c1rj6zf34p2yzx59noqr27vbr" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/bynxf1c1rj6zf34p2yzx59noqr27vbr.png" /></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Main_sights">Main sights</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Main sights"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The old town was built between 1530 and 1792 and shows an architectural combination of Italian Grandezza, French style and Swiss ideas. </p><p>In 1980, Solothurn was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Wakker_Prize" title="Wakker Prize">Wakker Prize</a> for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage. </p><p>Solothurn is home to 18 structures that are listed as Swiss <a href="/wiki/Swiss_inventory_of_cultural_property_of_national_and_regional_significance" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance">heritage sites of national significance</a>. The religious buildings on the list are; the Visitation <a href="/wiki/Convent" title="Convent">Convent</a>, the Jesuit Church with <i>Kollegium</i> (Lapidarium), the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Reformed_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss Reformed Church">Swiss Reformed</a> Church on Westringstrasse and the St. Ursen Cathedral. There are four civic buildings on the list; the old <a href="/wiki/Armory_(military)" class="mw-redirect" title="Armory (military)">Armory</a> which is now the Cantonal Museum, the <a href="/wiki/Seat_of_local_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Seat of local government">Rathaus</a> (town council house), the State Archives at Bielstrasse 41 and the nearby Central Library at Bielstrasse 39. Two other museums are on the list, the Art Museum and the Naturmuseum. There are two houses and two public objects on the list; the Haller-Haus (former Bishops Palace) at Baselstrasse 61, the Sommerhaus Vigier at Untere Steingrubenstrasse 21, the Mauritius Fountain and the town clock tower. Two castles are listed; the former Blumenstein Castle and <a href="/wiki/Steinbrugg_Castle" title="Steinbrugg Castle">Steinbrugg Castle</a>. Finally, the list includes the old town of Salodurum which was a Roman era <a href="/wiki/Vicus" title="Vicus">Vicus</a> and the medieval and <a href="/wiki/Early_Modern_Switzerland" class="mw-redirect" title="Early Modern Switzerland">early modern</a> city as well as the city walls. The entire old city of Solothurn is part of the <a href="/wiki/Inventory_of_Swiss_Heritage_Sites" title="Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites">Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sights include: </p> <ul><li>Aarhof</li> <li>Besenval Palace</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solothurn_Cathedral" title="Solothurn Cathedral">Cathedral of St. Ursus</a> (1762–73). It was begun by Gaetano Matteo Pisoni and completed by Paolo Antonio Pisoni. The interior has stuccoes by Francesco Pozzi and canvasses by <a href="/wiki/Domenico_Corvi" title="Domenico Corvi">Domenico Corvi</a>.</li> <li>Church of the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Jesus">Jesuits</a> (<i>Jesuitenkirche</i>, 1680–89)</li> <li>Clock tower (<i>Zeitglockenturm</i>, 12th century)</li> <li>Gate of Basel</li> <li>Gate of Bienne</li> <li>Kosciuszko Museum</li> <li>Krone</li> <li>Landhaus</li> <li>Museum of the Old Arsenal (1609–14), housing the most ancient collection of armour in Europe.</li> <li>Old town</li> <li>The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Verena_Gorge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Verena Gorge (page does not exist)">Verena Gorge</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Verena_Gorge_Hermitage" title="Verena Gorge Hermitage">Verena Gorge Hermitage</a></li> <li>Waldegg Castle<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weissenstein" title="Weissenstein">Weissenstein</a> mountain</li></ul> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Soleure_aar.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="The Aare as seen from the cathedral."><img alt="The Aare as seen from the cathedral." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Soleure_aar.JPG/200px-Soleure_aar.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Soleure_aar.JPG/300px-Soleure_aar.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Soleure_aar.JPG/400px-Soleure_aar.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The Aare as seen from the cathedral.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Amthausplatz_Solothurn.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Amthausplatz"><img alt="Amthausplatz" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Amthausplatz_Solothurn.jpg/200px-Amthausplatz_Solothurn.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="129" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Amthausplatz_Solothurn.jpg/300px-Amthausplatz_Solothurn.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Amthausplatz_Solothurn.jpg/400px-Amthausplatz_Solothurn.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2987" data-file-height="1926" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Amthausplatz</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Historisches_museum_blumenstein_suedfassade.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Historical Museum of Solothurn"><img alt="Historical Museum of Solothurn" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Historisches_museum_blumenstein_suedfassade.jpg/200px-Historisches_museum_blumenstein_suedfassade.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Historisches_museum_blumenstein_suedfassade.jpg/300px-Historisches_museum_blumenstein_suedfassade.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Historisches_museum_blumenstein_suedfassade.jpg/400px-Historisches_museum_blumenstein_suedfassade.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Historical Museum of Solothurn</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kosciuszko_Solothurn.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="House in Solothurn where Tadeusz Kościuszko was living at the time of his death in October 1817."><img alt="House in Solothurn where Tadeusz Kościuszko was living at the time of his death in October 1817." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Kosciuszko_Solothurn.JPG/150px-Kosciuszko_Solothurn.JPG" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Kosciuszko_Solothurn.JPG/225px-Kosciuszko_Solothurn.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Kosciuszko_Solothurn.JPG/300px-Kosciuszko_Solothurn.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2112" data-file-height="2816" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">House in Solothurn where <a href="/wiki/Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko" title="Tadeusz Kościuszko">Tadeusz Kościuszko</a> was living at the time of his death in October 1817.</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/2007_Swiss_federal_election" title="2007 Swiss federal election">2007 federal election</a> the most popular party was the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Switzerland" title="Social Democratic Party of Switzerland">SP</a> which received 24.09% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the <a href="/wiki/FDP.The_Liberals" class="mw-redirect" title="FDP.The Liberals">FDP</a> (23.53%), the <a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Switzerland" title="Green Party of Switzerland">Green Party</a> (18.56%) and the <a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_People%27s_Party_of_Switzerland" title="Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland">CVP</a> (17.19%). In the federal election, a total of 5,767 votes were cast, and the <a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">voter turnout</a> was 53.8%.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Market_in_Solothurn.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Market_in_Solothurn.jpg/220px-Market_in_Solothurn.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Market_in_Solothurn.jpg/330px-Market_in_Solothurn.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Market_in_Solothurn.jpg/440px-Market_in_Solothurn.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>The market (as of 2015<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>) in Solothurn.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Picswiss_SO-19-13.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Picswiss_SO-19-13.jpg/220px-Picswiss_SO-19-13.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Picswiss_SO-19-13.jpg/330px-Picswiss_SO-19-13.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Picswiss_SO-19-13.jpg/440px-Picswiss_SO-19-13.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="333" /></a><figcaption>Solothurn's train station</figcaption></figure> <p>As of  2010<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, Solothurn had an unemployment rate of 4.6%. As of 2008<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, there were 22 people employed in the <a href="/wiki/Primary_sector_of_the_economy" title="Primary sector of the economy">primary economic sector</a> and about 4 businesses involved in this sector. 2,587 people were employed in the <a href="/wiki/Secondary_sector_of_the_economy" title="Secondary sector of the economy">secondary sector</a> and there were 178 businesses in this sector. 14,381 people were employed in the <a href="/wiki/Tertiary_sector_of_the_economy" title="Tertiary sector of the economy">tertiary sector</a>, with 1,226 businesses in this sector.<sup id="cite_ref-SFSO_17-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFSO-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were 8,023 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which women made up 46.9% of the workforce. </p><p>In 2008<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> the total number of <a href="/wiki/Full-time_equivalent" title="Full-time equivalent">full-time equivalent</a> jobs was 13,378. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 16, of which 7 were in agriculture and 9 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 2,430 of which 1,398 or (57.5%) were in manufacturing and 813 (33.5%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 10,932. In the tertiary sector; 1,537 or 14.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 454 or 4.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 610 or 5.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 583 or 5.3% were in the information industry, 975 or 8.9% were the insurance or financial industry, 1,095 or 10.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 614 or 5.6% were in education and 2,612 or 23.9% were in health care.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, there were 13,529 workers who commuted into the municipality and 3,598 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 3.8 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving.<sup id="cite_ref-commuter_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-commuter-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the working population, 20.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 40.3% used a private car.<sup id="cite_ref-SFSO_17-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFSO-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religion">Religion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:01-weststadtkirche-st.marien.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/01-weststadtkirche-st.marien.jpg/170px-01-weststadtkirche-st.marien.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/01-weststadtkirche-st.marien.jpg/255px-01-weststadtkirche-st.marien.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/01-weststadtkirche-st.marien.jpg/340px-01-weststadtkirche-st.marien.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="2560" /></a><figcaption>Church of St. Marien in the west of Solothurn</figcaption></figure> <p>From the 2000 census<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, 5,463 or 35.3% were <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a>, while 4,358 or 28.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 278 <a href="/wiki/Orthodoxy#Christianity" title="Orthodoxy">members of an Orthodox church</a> (or about 1.79% of the population), there were 182 individuals (or about 1.18% of the population) who belonged to the <a href="/wiki/Christian_Catholic_Church_of_Switzerland" title="Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland">Christian Catholic Church</a>, and there were 248 individuals (or about 1.60% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 27 individuals (or about 0.17% of the population) who were <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Jewish</a>, and 915 (or about 5.91% of the population) who were <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islamic</a>. There were 78 individuals who were <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhist</a>, 173 individuals who were <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hindu</a> and 27 individuals who belonged to another church. 3,139 (or about 20.27% of the population) belonged to no church, are <a href="/wiki/Agnosticism" title="Agnosticism">agnostic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheist</a>, and 601 individuals (or about 3.88% of the population) did not answer the question.<sup id="cite_ref-STAT2000_18-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STAT2000-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kanti_solothurn_feb2009.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Kanti_solothurn_feb2009.jpg/220px-Kanti_solothurn_feb2009.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Kanti_solothurn_feb2009.jpg/330px-Kanti_solothurn_feb2009.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Kanti_solothurn_feb2009.jpg/440px-Kanti_solothurn_feb2009.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2877" data-file-height="2109" /></a><figcaption>The Cantonal School (Gymnasium) in Solothurn</figcaption></figure> <p>In Solothurn about 5,724 or (37.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory <a href="/wiki/Education_in_Switzerland#Secondary" title="Education in Switzerland">upper secondary education</a>, and 2,815 or (18.2%) have completed additional higher education (either <a href="/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Switzerland" title="List of universities in Switzerland">university</a> or a <i><a href="/wiki/Fachhochschule" title="Fachhochschule">Fachhochschule</a></i>). Of the 2,815 who completed tertiary schooling, 58.0% were Swiss men, 28.0% were Swiss women, 8.1% were non-Swiss men and 5.9% were non-Swiss women.<sup id="cite_ref-STAT2000_18-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STAT2000-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 2010–2011 school year there were a total of students in the Solothurn school system. The <a href="/wiki/Education_in_Switzerland" title="Education in Switzerland">education system</a> in the Canton of Solothurn allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory <a href="/wiki/Kindergarten" title="Kindergarten">Kindergarten</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During that school year, there were Schülerbestand children in kindergarten. The canton's school system requires students to attend six years of <a href="/wiki/Primary_school" title="Primary school">primary school</a>, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In the municipality there were 2010–2011 students in primary school. The <a href="/wiki/Secondary_school" title="Secondary school">secondary school</a> program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. All the lower secondary students from Solothurn attend their school in a neighboring municipality.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2000<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, there were 2,517 students in Solothurn who came from another municipality, while 188 residents attended schools outside the municipality.<sup id="cite_ref-commuter_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-commuter-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Solothurn is home to two libraries. These libraries include the Zentralbibliothek Solothurn and the <i>Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Pädagogische Hochschule, Standort Solothurn</i> (a library of the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz). There was a combined total (as of 2008<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>) of 1,195,394 books or other media in the libraries, and in the same year a total of 522,650 items were loaned out.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport">Sport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/FC_Solothurn" title="FC Solothurn">FC Solothurn</a> is the town's football club. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_number_11">The number 11</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: The number 11"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Solothurn has a special affinity for the number <a href="/wiki/11_(number)" title="11 (number)">eleven</a>. </p><p>The Canton of Solothurn was the eleventh to become part of the Swiss Confederation. There are eleven churches and chapels, as well as eleven historical fountains and eleven towers.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Solothurn_Cathedral" title="Solothurn Cathedral">St. Ursus cathedral</a> has eleven altars and eleven bells, and the stairs in front of the cathedral have landings after every eleven steps. </p><p>A local brewery has named itself <i>Öufi</i>, which is <a href="/wiki/Swiss_German" title="Swiss German">Swiss German</a> for eleven, and produces a <a href="/wiki/Beer" title="Beer">beer</a> with the same name. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_relations">International relations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: International relations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_twin_towns_and_sister_cities_in_Switzerland" title="List of twin towns and sister cities in Switzerland">List of twin towns and sister cities in Switzerland</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Twin_towns—Sister_cities"><span id="Twin_towns.E2.80.94Sister_cities"></span>Twin towns—Sister cities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Twin towns—Sister cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Solothurn is <a href="/wiki/Twin_towns_and_sister_cities" class="mw-redirect" title="Twin towns and sister cities">twinned</a> with: </p> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany"><img alt="Germany" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Heilbronn" title="Heilbronn">Heilbronn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, since 1981</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland"><img alt="Switzerland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/16px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/24px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/32px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Le_Landeron" title="Le Landeron">Le Landeron</a>, <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>, since 2003</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Partnerships">Partnerships</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Partnerships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland"><img alt="Poland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w" title="Kraków">Kraków</a> in <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>, since 1990<sup id="cite_ref-Kraków_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kraków-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Robertglutz.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Robertglutz.jpg/140px-Robertglutz.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Robertglutz.jpg/210px-Robertglutz.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Robertglutz.jpg/280px-Robertglutz.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2169" data-file-height="2678" /></a><figcaption>Robert Glutz, 1855</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Charles_Sealsfield.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Charles_Sealsfield.jpg/140px-Charles_Sealsfield.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="202" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Charles_Sealsfield.jpg/210px-Charles_Sealsfield.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Charles_Sealsfield.jpg/280px-Charles_Sealsfield.jpg 2x" data-file-width="335" data-file-height="483" /></a><figcaption>Charles Sealsfield, 1864</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wilhelm-vigier-crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Wilhelm-vigier-crop.jpg/140px-Wilhelm-vigier-crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Wilhelm-vigier-crop.jpg/210px-Wilhelm-vigier-crop.jpg 1.5x, 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class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Ester_Alder_%28cropped%29.jpg/140px-Ester_Alder_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Ester_Alder_%28cropped%29.jpg/210px-Ester_Alder_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Ester_Alder_%28cropped%29.jpg/280px-Ester_Alder_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1156" data-file-height="1636" /></a><figcaption>Ester Alder, 2014</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FIS_Worldcup_Nordic_Combined_Ramsau_20161218_DSC_8266.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/FIS_Worldcup_Nordic_Combined_Ramsau_20161218_DSC_8266.jpg/140px-FIS_Worldcup_Nordic_Combined_Ramsau_20161218_DSC_8266.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/FIS_Worldcup_Nordic_Combined_Ramsau_20161218_DSC_8266.jpg/210px-FIS_Worldcup_Nordic_Combined_Ramsau_20161218_DSC_8266.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/FIS_Worldcup_Nordic_Combined_Ramsau_20161218_DSC_8266.jpg/280px-FIS_Worldcup_Nordic_Combined_Ramsau_20161218_DSC_8266.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1204" data-file-height="1808" /></a><figcaption>Tim Hug, 2016</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_times">Early times</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Early times"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ursus_of_Solothurn" title="Ursus of Solothurn">Ursus of Solothurn</a> († c. 303), saint and patron of the Roman Catholic cathedral in Solothurn, where his body is located</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urs_Graf_der_%C3%84ltere" class="mw-redirect" title="Urs Graf der Ältere">Urs Graf der Ältere</a> (1485–1528), Renaissance goldsmith, painter, printmaker and mercenary</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregorius_Sickinger" title="Gregorius Sickinger">Gregorius Sickinger</a> (1558–1631), painter, draughtsman and engraver</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Georg_Gotthart&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Georg Gotthart (page does not exist)">Georg Gotthart</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Gotthart" class="extiw" title="de:Georg Gotthart">de</a>]</span> (1552–1619), poet and playwright</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="17th_century">17th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: 17th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean_II_d%27Estr%C3%A9es" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean II d'Estrées">Jean II d'Estrées</a> (1624–1707), Marshal of France and a naval commander of <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIV" title="Louis XIV">Louis XIV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Rudolf_Byss" title="Johann Rudolf Byss">Johann Rudolf Byss</a> (1660–1738), painter of the Netherlandish and Italian classic styles</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franz_Adam_Karrer" title="Franz Adam Karrer">Franz Adam Karrer</a> (1672–1741), senior Swiss military officer in French service</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th_century">18th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: 18th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Franz_Josef_von_Hallwyl" title="Franz Josef von Hallwyl">Franz Josef von Hallwyl</a> (1719–1785), senior Swiss military officer in French service</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Victor,_baron_de_Besenval_de_Br%C3%BCnstatt" title="Pierre Victor, baron de Besenval de Brünstatt">Pierre Victor, baron de Besenval de Brünstatt</a> (1722–1794), last commander of the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Guards" title="Swiss Guards">Swiss Guards</a> in France <sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko" title="Tadeusz Kościuszko">Tadeusz Kościuszko</a> (1746–1817), Polish statesman and <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">American</a> military leader, lived in exile in Solothurn</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urs_Glutz_von_Blotzheim" title="Urs Glutz von Blotzheim">Urs Glutz von Blotzheim</a> (1751–1816), military officer and politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Glutz-Blotzheim" title="Robert Glutz-Blotzheim">Robert Glutz-Blotzheim</a> (1786–1818), writer, librarian and historian</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Konrad_Josef_Glutz_von_Blotzheim&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Konrad Josef Glutz von Blotzheim (page does not exist)">Konrad Josef Glutz von Blotzheim</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Josef_Glutz_von_Blotzheim" class="extiw" title="de:Konrad Josef Glutz von Blotzheim">de</a>]</span> (1789–1857), priest<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Wikipedia_and_sources_that_mirror_or_use_it" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="This claim cites another Wikipedia article. Articles need references to reliable third-party sources. (May 2021)">circular reference</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Sealsfield" title="Charles Sealsfield">Charles Sealsfield</a> (1793–1864), Austrian-American writer, journalist and advocate for a German democracy <sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Dietler" title="Johann Friedrich Dietler">Johann Friedrich Dietler</a> (1804–1874), portrait painter</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franz_Krutter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Franz Krutter (page does not exist)">Franz Krutter</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Krutter" class="extiw" title="de:Franz Krutter">de</a>]</span> (1807–1873), writer, lawyer and politician<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Wikipedia_and_sources_that_mirror_or_use_it" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="This claim cites another Wikipedia article. Articles need references to reliable third-party sources. (May 2021)">circular reference</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franz_Pfeiffer_(literary_scholar)" title="Franz Pfeiffer (literary scholar)">Franz Pfeiffer</a> (1815–1868), literary scholar who worked in Germany and Austria <sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Vigier" title="Wilhelm Vigier">Wilhelm Vigier</a> (1823–1886), politician, President of the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Council_of_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss Council of States">Swiss Council of States</a> 1862–1863 and 1882–1883</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Buchser" title="Frank Buchser">Frank Buchser</a> (1828–1890), painter of notable post–Civil War American figures</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otto_Fr%C3%B6licher" title="Otto Frölicher">Otto Frölicher</a> (1840–1890), landscape painter</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Conradin_Zschokke&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conradin Zschokke (page does not exist)">Conradin Zschokke</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conradin_Zschokke" class="extiw" title="de:Conradin Zschokke">de</a>]</span> (1842–1918), engineer<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Wikipedia_and_sources_that_mirror_or_use_it" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="This claim cites another Wikipedia article. Articles need references to reliable third-party sources. (May 2021)">circular reference</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Sterki" title="Victor Sterki">Victor Sterki</a> (1846–1933), Swiss <a href="/wiki/Malacologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Malacologist">malacologist</a> who lived in Ohio, USA</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuno_Amiet" title="Cuno Amiet">Cuno Amiet</a> (1868–1961), painter, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ruedi_Walter" title="Ruedi Walter">Ruedi Walter</a> (1916–1990), comedian, radio personality and stage and film actor<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wiggli" title="Oscar Wiggli">Oscar Wiggli</a> (1927–2016), composer and sculptor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Meier" title="Herbert Meier">Herbert Meier</a> (1928–2018), writer and translator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otto_F._Walter" title="Otto F. Walter">Otto F. Walter</a> (1928–1994), publisher and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urs_Jaeggi" title="Urs Jaeggi">Urs Jaeggi</a> (born 1931), sociologist, painter and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urs_Noel_Glutz_von_Blotzheim" title="Urs Noel Glutz von Blotzheim">Urs Noel Glutz von Blotzheim</a> (born 1932), zoologist, known for his ornithological work</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schang_Hutter" title="Schang Hutter">Schang Hutter</a> (1934–2021), sculptor<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Wikipedia_and_sources_that_mirror_or_use_it" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="This claim cites another Wikipedia article. Articles need references to reliable third-party sources. (May 2021)">circular reference</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Bichsel" title="Peter Bichsel">Peter Bichsel</a> (born 1935), writer and journalist, representing modern German literature</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Bloch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Walter Bloch (page does not exist)">Walter Bloch</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bloch" class="extiw" title="de:Walter Bloch">de</a>]</span> (born 1943), philosopher and writer</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Schenker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Walter Schenker (page does not exist)">Walter Schenker</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schenker" class="extiw" title="de:Walter Schenker">de</a>]</span> (1943–2018), author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anton_Mosimann" title="Anton Mosimann">Anton Mosimann</a> OBE, DL (born 1947), chef and restaurateur</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Markus_Gygax" title="Markus Gygax">Markus Gygax</a> (born 1950), former commander of the Swiss Air Force</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_von_Rohr" title="Chris von Rohr">Chris von Rohr</a> (born 1951), rock musician, record producer, founder of hard rock band Krokus</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Fluri" title="Kurt Fluri">Kurt Fluri</a> (born 1955), politician, member of the <a href="/wiki/National_Council_of_Switzerland" class="mw-redirect" title="National Council of Switzerland">National Council of Switzerland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Esther_Alder" title="Esther Alder">Esther Alder</a> (born 1958), politician, in 2015 became the Mayor of Geneva</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denise_Wyss" title="Denise Wyss">Denise Wyss</a> (born 1965), first woman to be ordained in the <a href="/wiki/Old_Catholic_Church" title="Old Catholic Church">Old Catholic Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernhard_Hess" title="Bernhard Hess">Bernhard Hess</a> (born 1966), politician, member of the National Council 1999–2007</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Misteli" title="Tom Misteli">Tom Misteli</a> (born 1966), cell biologist and pioneer in the field of genome cell biology</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_vom_Brocke" title="Martin vom Brocke">Martin vom Brocke</a> (born 1969), dentist, orthodontist and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ad%C3%A8le_Thorens_Goumaz" title="Adèle Thorens Goumaz">Adèle Thorens Goumaz</a> (born 1971), politician, member of the National Council since 2007</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Oeggerli" title="Martin Oeggerli">Martin Oeggerli</a> (born 1974), photographer specializing in scientific microscopy and fine art</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krokus_(band)" title="Krokus (band)">Krokus</a> (founded 1975 by Chris von Rohr), hard rock and heavy metal band</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andreas_Reize" title="Andreas Reize">Andreas Reize</a> (born 19 May 1975), organist and conductor, <a href="/wiki/Thomaskantor" title="Thomaskantor">Thomaskantor</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sport_2">Sport</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Buchwalder" title="Edgar Buchwalder">Edgar Buchwalder</a> (1916–2009), cyclist, silver medalist at the <a href="/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics" title="1936 Summer Olympics">1936 Summer Olympics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anton_Allemann" title="Anton Allemann">Anton Allemann</a> (1936–2008), footballer, played 27 times for the Swiss national team</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Tschui" title="Alex Tschui">Alex Tschui</a> (born 1939), modern pentathlete, competed at the <a href="/wiki/1968_Summer_Olympics" title="1968 Summer Olympics">1968 Summer Olympics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marco_Walker" title="Marco Walker">Marco Walker</a> (born 1970), former footballer who played 344 games</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Popov_(swimmer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Popov (swimmer)">Alexander Popov</a> (born 1971), Russian former swimmer, won gold in the 50m. and 100m. freestyle at the <a href="/wiki/1992_Summer_Olympics" title="1992 Summer Olympics">1992</a> and <a href="/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics" title="1996 Summer Olympics">1996 Summer Olympics</a>, lives in Solothurn</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Hug" title="Tim Hug">Tim Hug</a> (born 1987), Nordic combined skier, competed in the <a href="/wiki/2010_Winter_Olympics" title="2010 Winter Olympics">2010 Winter Olympics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yannick_Schwaller" title="Yannick Schwaller">Yannick Schwaller</a> (born 1995), curler, <a href="/wiki/2023_World_Men%27s_Curling_Championship" title="2023 World Men's Curling Championship">2023 World Men's Curling Championship</a> bronze medalist, <a href="/wiki/2014_World_Junior_Curling_Championships" title="2014 World Junior Curling Championships">2014 World Junior Men's Curling</a> Champion</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Solothurner_Literaturpreis" title="Solothurner Literaturpreis">Solothurner Literaturpreis</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solothurn&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Bibliography</dt></dl> <ul><li>B. Amiet, H. Sigrist, Th. Wallner: <i>Solothurner Kantonsgeschichte</i>, 3 volumes</li> <li>U. 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title="Solothurn – The city becomes independent in German">German</span></a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/f/F1174.php"><span title="Solothurn – The city becomes independent in French">French</span></a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/i/I1174.php"><span title="Solothurn – The city becomes independent in Italian">Italian</span></a> in the online <i><a href="/wiki/Historical_Dictionary_of_Switzerland" title="Historical Dictionary of Switzerland">Historical Dictionary of Switzerland</a></i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HDS_government-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-HDS_government_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HDS_government_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Solothurn – City Government</i> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D1174.php"><span title="Solothurn – City Government in German">German</span></a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/f/F1174.php"><span title="Solothurn – City Government in French">French</span></a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/i/I1174.php"><span title="Solothurn – City Government in Italian">Italian</span></a> in the online <i><a href="/wiki/Historical_Dictionary_of_Switzerland" title="Historical Dictionary of Switzerland">Historical Dictionary of Switzerland</a></i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HDS_Economy-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-HDS_Economy_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Solothurn – Economy</i> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D1174.php"><span title="Solothurn – Economy in German">German</span></a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/f/F1174.php"><span 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title="Bern">Bern (BE)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chur" title="Chur">Chur (GR)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Del%C3%A9mont" title="Delémont">Delémont (JU)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frauenfeld" title="Frauenfeld">Frauenfeld (TG)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fribourg" title="Fribourg">Fribourg (FR)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva (GE)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glarus" title="Glarus">Glarus (GL)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herisau" title="Herisau">Herisau (AR)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lausanne" title="Lausanne">Lausanne (VD)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liestal" title="Liestal">Liestal (BL)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucerne" title="Lucerne">Lucerne (LU)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neuch%C3%A2tel" title="Neuchâtel">Neuchâtel (NE)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarnen" title="Sarnen">Sarnen (OW)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schaffhausen" title="Schaffhausen">Schaffhausen (SH)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schwyz" title="Schwyz">Schwyz (SZ)</a></li> <li><a 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id="Capitals_of_European_states_and_territories" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Capitals of European states and territories</div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Capitals of <a href="/wiki/Dependent_territory" title="Dependent territory">dependent territories</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_states_with_limited_recognition" title="List of states with limited recognition">states whose sovereignty is disputed</a> shown in <i>italics</i>.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sovereign states</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a></b>, Netherlands<sup>1</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Andorra_la_Vella" title="Andorra la Vella">Andorra la Vella</a></b>, Andorra</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Ankara" title="Ankara">Ankara</a></b>, Turkey<sup>2</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Astana" title="Astana">Astana</a></b>, Kazakhstan<sup>2</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a></b>, Greece</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a></b>, Azerbaijan<sup>2</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Belgrade" title="Belgrade">Belgrade</a></b>, Serbia</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a></b>, Germany</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Bern" title="Bern">Bern</a></b>, Switzerland</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Bratislava" title="Bratislava">Bratislava</a></b>, Slovakia</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a></b>, Belgium<sup>3</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Bucharest" title="Bucharest">Bucharest</a></b>, Romania</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Budapest" title="Budapest">Budapest</a></b>, Hungary</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău">Chișinău</a></b>, Moldova</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Copenhagen" title="Copenhagen">Copenhagen</a></b>, Denmark</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a></b>, Ireland</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Helsinki" title="Helsinki">Helsinki</a></b>, Finland</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a></b>, Ukraine</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Lisbon" title="Lisbon">Lisbon</a></b>, Portugal</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Ljubljana" title="Ljubljana">Ljubljana</a></b>, Slovenia</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></b>, United Kingdom</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_City" title="Luxembourg City">Luxembourg</a></b>, Luxembourg</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a></b>, Spain</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Minsk" title="Minsk">Minsk</a></b>, Belarus</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Monaco" title="Monaco">Monaco</a></b><sup>5</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a></b>, Russia</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Nicosia" title="Nicosia">Nicosia</a></b>, Cyprus<sup>2</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Oslo" title="Oslo">Oslo</a></b>, Norway</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a></b>, France</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Podgorica" title="Podgorica">Podgorica</a></b>, Montenegro</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a></b>, Czech Republic</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk" title="Reykjavík">Reykjavík</a></b>, Iceland</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Riga" title="Riga">Riga</a></b>, Latvia</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a></b>, Italy</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/City_of_San_Marino" title="City of San Marino">San Marino</a></b>, San Marino</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Sarajevo" title="Sarajevo">Sarajevo</a></b>, Bosnia and Herzegovina</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a></b>, North Macedonia</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Sofia" title="Sofia">Sofia</a></b>, Bulgaria</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Stockholm" title="Stockholm">Stockholm</a></b>, Sweden</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Tallinn" title="Tallinn">Tallinn</a></b>, Estonia</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a></b>, Georgia<sup>2</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Tirana" title="Tirana">Tirana</a></b>, Albania</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Vaduz" title="Vaduz">Vaduz</a></b>, Liechtenstein</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Valletta" title="Valletta">Valletta</a></b>, Malta</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Vatican_City" title="Vatican City">Vatican City</a></b><sup>4</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a></b>, Austria</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Vilnius" title="Vilnius">Vilnius</a></b>, Lithuania</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Warsaw" title="Warsaw">Warsaw</a></b>, Poland</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a></b>, Armenia<sup>2</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Zagreb" title="Zagreb">Zagreb</a></b>, Croatia</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">States with<br />limited recognition</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/North_Nicosia" title="North Nicosia">North Nicosia</a></b>, Northern Cyprus</i><sup>2</sup></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Pristina" title="Pristina">Pristina</a></b>, Kosovo</i></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Sukhumi" title="Sukhumi">Sukhumi</a></b>, Abkhazia</i><sup>2</sup></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Tiraspol" title="Tiraspol">Tiraspol</a></b>, Transnistria</i></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Tskhinvali" title="Tskhinvali">Tskhinvali</a></b>, South Ossetia</i><sup>3</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Dependencies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Constituent countries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></b></i>, England</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></b></i>, Scotland</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Cardiff" title="Cardiff">Cardiff</a></b></i>, Wales</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Belfast" title="Belfast">Belfast</a></b></i>, Northern Ireland</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Crown_Dependencies" title="Crown Dependencies">Crown Dependencies</a> and<br /><a href="/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories" title="British Overseas Territories">Overseas Territories</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Douglas,_Isle_of_Man" title="Douglas, Isle of Man">Douglas</a></b></i>, Isle of Man</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Episkopi_Cantonment" title="Episkopi Cantonment">Episkopi Cantonment</a></b></i>, Akrotiri and Dhekelia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a></b></i>, Gibraltar</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/St_Helier" title="St Helier">St Helier</a></b></i>, Jersey</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter_Port" title="Saint Peter Port">Saint Peter Port</a></b></i>, Guernsey</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Longyearbyen" title="Longyearbyen">Longyearbyen</a></b>, Svalbard (Norway)</i></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/T%C3%B3rshavn" title="Tórshavn">Tórshavn</a></b>, Faroe Islands (Denmark)</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Federal states</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Austria" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of Austria">Austria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Bregenz" title="Bregenz">Bregenz</a></b></i>, Vorarlberg</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Eisenstadt" title="Eisenstadt">Eisenstadt</a></b></i>, Burgenland</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Graz" title="Graz">Graz</a></b></i>, Styria</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Innsbruck" title="Innsbruck">Innsbruck</a></b></i>, Tyrol</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Klagenfurt" class="mw-redirect" title="Klagenfurt">Klagenfurt</a></b></i>, Carinthia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Linz" title="Linz">Linz</a></b></i>, Upper Austria</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Salzburg" title="Salzburg">Salzburg</a></b></i>, Salzburg</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Sankt_P%C3%B6lten" title="Sankt Pölten">Sankt Pölten</a></b></i>, Lower Austria</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a></b></i>, Vienna</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Communities,_regions_and_language_areas_of_Belgium#Communities" class="mw-redirect" title="Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium">Communities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/City_of_Brussels" title="City of Brussels">Brussels</a></b></i>, Flemish Community and French Community</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Eupen" title="Eupen">Eupen</a></b></i>, German-speaking Community</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Communities,_regions_and_language_areas_of_Belgium#Regions" class="mw-redirect" title="Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium">Regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/City_of_Brussels" title="City of Brussels">Brussels</a></b></i>, Brussels-Capital Region and Flanders</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Namur" title="Namur">Namur</a></b></i>, Wallonia</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Political_divisions_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Banja_Luka" title="Banja Luka">Banja Luka</a></b></i> (de facto), Republika Srpska</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Br%C4%8Dko" title="Brčko">Brčko</a></b></i>, Brčko District</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Sarajevo" title="Sarajevo">Sarajevo</a></b></i>, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/States_of_Germany" title="States of Germany">Germany</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a></b></i>, Berlin</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Bremen" title="Bremen">Bremen</a></b></i>, Bremen</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Dresden" title="Dresden">Dresden</a></b></i>, Saxony</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/D%C3%BCsseldorf" title="Düsseldorf">Düsseldorf</a></b></i>, North Rhine-Westphalia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Erfurt" title="Erfurt">Erfurt</a></b></i>, Thuringia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a></b></i>, Hamburg</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Hanover" title="Hanover">Hanover</a></b></i>, Lower Saxony</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Kiel" title="Kiel">Kiel</a></b></i>, Schleswig-Holstein</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Magdeburg" title="Magdeburg">Magdeburg</a></b></i>, Saxony-Anhalt</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Mainz" title="Mainz">Mainz</a></b></i>, Rhineland-Palatinate</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a></b></i>, Bavaria</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Potsdam" title="Potsdam">Potsdam</a></b></i>, Brandenburg</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Saarbr%C3%BCcken" title="Saarbrücken">Saarbrücken</a></b></i>, Saarland</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Schwerin" title="Schwerin">Schwerin</a></b></i>, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Stuttgart" title="Stuttgart">Stuttgart</a></b></i>, Baden-Württemberg</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Wiesbaden" title="Wiesbaden">Wiesbaden</a></b></i>, Hesse</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia" title="Federal subjects of Russia">Russia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Republics_of_Russia" title="Republics of Russia">Republics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Cheboksary" title="Cheboksary">Cheboksary</a></b></i>, Chuvashia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Cherkessk" title="Cherkessk">Cherkessk</a></b></i>, Karachay-Cherkessia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Elista" title="Elista">Elista</a></b></i>, Kalmykia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Grozny" title="Grozny">Grozny</a></b></i>, Chechnya</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Izhevsk" title="Izhevsk">Izhevsk</a></b></i>, Udmurtia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Kazan" title="Kazan">Kazan</a></b></i>, Tatarstan</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Magas" title="Magas">Magas</a></b></i>, Ingushetia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Makhachkala" title="Makhachkala">Makhachkala</a></b></i>, Dagestan</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Maykop" title="Maykop">Maykop</a></b></i>, Adygea</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Nalchik" title="Nalchik">Nalchik</a></b></i>, Kabardino-Balkaria</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Petrozavodsk" title="Petrozavodsk">Petrozavodsk</a></b></i>, Karelia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Saransk" title="Saransk">Saransk</a></b></i>, Mordovia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Simferopol" title="Simferopol">Simferopol</a></b></i>, Crimea (<a href="/wiki/Political_status_of_Crimea" title="Political status of Crimea">disputed</a>)</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Syktyvkar" title="Syktyvkar">Syktyvkar</a></b></i>, Komi</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Ufa" title="Ufa">Ufa</a></b></i>, Bashkortostan</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Vladikavkaz" title="Vladikavkaz">Vladikavkaz</a></b></i>, North Ossetia–Alania</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Yoshkar-Ola" title="Yoshkar-Ola">Yoshkar-Ola</a></b></i>, Mari El</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_okrugs_of_Russia" title="Autonomous okrugs of Russia">Autonomous okrugs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Naryan-Mar" title="Naryan-Mar">Naryan-Mar</a></b></i>, Nenets</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Krais_of_Russia" title="Krais of Russia">Krais</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Krasnodar" title="Krasnodar">Krasnodar</a></b></i>, Krasnodar Krai</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Perm,_Russia" title="Perm, Russia">Perm</a></b></i>, Perm Krai</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Stavropol" title="Stavropol">Stavropol</a></b></i>, Stavropol Krai</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Oblasts_of_Russia" title="Oblasts of Russia">Oblasts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Arkhangelsk" title="Arkhangelsk">Arkhangelsk</a></b></i>, Arkhangelsk Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Astrakhan" title="Astrakhan">Astrakhan</a></b></i>, Astrakhan Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Belgorod" title="Belgorod">Belgorod</a></b></i>, Belgorod Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Bryansk" title="Bryansk">Bryansk</a></b></i>, Bryansk Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Ivanovo" title="Ivanovo">Ivanovo</a></b></i>, Ivanovo Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Kaliningrad" title="Kaliningrad">Kaliningrad</a></b></i>, Kaliningrad Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Kaluga" title="Kaluga">Kaluga</a></b></i>, Kaluga Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Kirov,_Kirov_Oblast" title="Kirov, Kirov Oblast">Kirov</a></b></i>, Kirov Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Kostroma" title="Kostroma">Kostroma</a></b></i>, Kostroma Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Krasnogorsk,_Moscow_Oblast" title="Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast">Krasnogorsk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a></b></i>, Moscow Oblast (de facto)</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Kursk" title="Kursk">Kursk</a></b></i>, Kursk Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Lipetsk" title="Lipetsk">Lipetsk</a></b></i>, Lipetsk Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Murmansk" title="Murmansk">Murmansk</a></b></i>, Murmansk Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Nizhny_Novgorod" title="Nizhny Novgorod">Nizhny Novgorod</a></b></i>, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Orenburg" title="Orenburg">Orenburg</a></b></i>, Orenburg Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Oryol" title="Oryol">Oryol</a></b></i>, Oryol Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Penza" title="Penza">Penza</a></b></i>, Penza Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Pskov" title="Pskov">Pskov</a></b></i>, Pskov Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Rostov-on-Don" title="Rostov-on-Don">Rostov-on-Don</a></b></i>, Rostov Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Ryazan" title="Ryazan">Ryazan</a></b></i>, Ryazan Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Gatchina" title="Gatchina">Gatchina</a></b></i>, Leningrad Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Samara" title="Samara">Samara</a></b></i>, Samara Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Saratov" title="Saratov">Saratov</a></b></i>, Saratov Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Smolensk" title="Smolensk">Smolensk</a></b></i>, Smolensk Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Tambov" title="Tambov">Tambov</a></b></i>, Tambov Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Tula,_Russia" title="Tula, Russia">Tula</a></b></i>, Tula Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Tver" title="Tver">Tver</a></b></i>, Tver Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Ulyanovsk" title="Ulyanovsk">Ulyanovsk</a></b></i>, Ulyanovsk Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Veliky_Novgorod" title="Veliky Novgorod">Veliky Novgorod</a></b></i>, Novgorod Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Vladimir,_Russia" title="Vladimir, Russia">Vladimir</a></b></i>, Vladimir Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Volgograd" title="Volgograd">Volgograd</a></b></i>, Volgograd Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Vologda" title="Vologda">Vologda</a></b></i>, Vologda Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Voronezh" title="Voronezh">Voronezh</a></b></i>, Voronezh Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Yaroslavl" title="Yaroslavl">Yaroslavl</a></b></i>, Yaroslavl Oblast</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Federal_cities_of_Russia" title="Federal cities of Russia">Federal cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a></b></i></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a></b></i></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Sevastopol" title="Sevastopol">Sevastopol</a></b></i> (<a href="/wiki/Political_status_of_Crimea" title="Political status of Crimea">disputed</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland" title="Cantons of Switzerland">Switzerland</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Aarau" title="Aarau">Aarau</a></b></i>, Aargau</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Altdorf,_Uri" title="Altdorf, Uri">Altdorf</a></b></i>, Uri</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Appenzell_(village)" title="Appenzell (village)">Appenzell</a></b></i>, Appenzell Innerrhoden</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Basel" title="Basel">Basel</a></b></i>, Basel-Stadt</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Bellinzona" title="Bellinzona">Bellinzona</a></b></i>, Ticino</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Chur" title="Chur">Chur</a></b></i>, Grisons</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Del%C3%A9mont" title="Delémont">Delémont</a></b></i>, Jura</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Frauenfeld" title="Frauenfeld">Frauenfeld</a></b></i>, Thurgau</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Fribourg" title="Fribourg">Fribourg</a></b></i>, Canton of Fribourg</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a></b></i>, Canton of Geneva</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Herisau" title="Herisau">Herisau</a></b></i>, Appenzell Ausserrhoden</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Lausanne" title="Lausanne">Lausanne</a></b></i>, Vaud</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Liestal" title="Liestal">Liestal</a></b></i>, Basel-Landschaft</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Lucerne" title="Lucerne">Lucerne</a></b></i>, Canton of Lucerne</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Neuch%C3%A2tel" title="Neuchâtel">Neuchâtel</a></b></i>, Canton of Neuchâtel</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Sarnen" title="Sarnen">Sarnen</a></b></i>, Obwalden</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Schaffhausen" title="Schaffhausen">Schaffhausen</a></b></i>, Canton of Schaffhausen</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Schwyz" title="Schwyz">Schwyz</a></b></i>, Canton of Schwyz</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Sion,_Switzerland" title="Sion, Switzerland">Sion</a></b></i>, Valais</li> <li><i><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Solothurn</a></b></i>, Canton of Solothurn</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Stans" title="Stans">Stans</a></b></i>, Nidwalden</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/St._Gallen" title="St. Gallen">St. Gallen</a></b></i>, Canton of St. Gallen</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Glarus" title="Glarus">Glarus</a></b></i>, Canton of Glarus</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Zug" title="Zug">Zug</a></b></i>, Canton of Zug</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Zurich" title="Zurich">Zurich</a></b></i>, Canton of Zürich</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Autonomous<br />entities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Autonomous_regions" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Italy#Autonomous_regions_with_special_statute" title="Regions of Italy">Autonomous regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Cagliari" title="Cagliari">Cagliari</a></b></i>, Sardinia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Palermo" title="Palermo">Palermo</a></b></i>, Sicily</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Trento" title="Trento">Trento</a></b></i>, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Aosta" title="Aosta">Aosta</a></b></i>, Aosta Valley</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Trieste" title="Trieste">Trieste</a></b></i>, Friuli Venezia Giulia</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Autonomous_regions" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_regions_of_Portugal" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous regions of Portugal">Autonomous regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Ponta_Delgada" title="Ponta Delgada">Ponta Delgada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Angra_do_Hero%C3%ADsmo" title="Angra do Heroísmo">Angra do Heroísmo</a>, & <a href="/wiki/Horta,_Azores" title="Horta, Azores">Horta</a></b></i>, Azores</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Funchal" title="Funchal">Funchal</a></b></i>, Madeira</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Barcelona" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a></b></i>, Catalonia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Las_Palmas" title="Las Palmas">Las Palmas</a></b></i> & <i><b><a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a></b></i>, Canary Islands</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Logro%C3%B1o" title="Logroño">Logroño</a></b></i>, La Rioja</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a></b></i>, Community of Madrid</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9rida,_Spain" title="Mérida, Spain">Mérida</a></b></i>, Extremadura</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Murcia" title="Murcia">Murcia</a></b></i>, Region of Murcia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Oviedo" title="Oviedo">Oviedo</a></b></i>, Asturias</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Palma_de_Mallorca" title="Palma de Mallorca">Palma de Mallorca</a></b></i>, Balearic Islands</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Pamplona" title="Pamplona">Pamplona</a></b></i>, Navarre</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Santander,_Spain" title="Santander, Spain">Santander</a></b></i>, Cantabria</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela" title="Santiago de Compostela">Santiago de Compostela</a></b></i>, Galicia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Seville" title="Seville">Seville</a></b></i>, Andalusia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Toledo,_Spain" title="Toledo, Spain">Toledo</a></b></i>, Castilla–La Mancha (de facto)</li> <li><i><b><a 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Athos">Karyes</a></b></i>, Mount Athos (Greece)</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Mariehamn" title="Mariehamn">Mariehamn</a></b></i>, Åland Islands (Finland)</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Nakhchivan_(city)" title="Nakhchivan (city)">Nakhchivan</a></b></i>, Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan)</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Novi_Sad" title="Novi Sad">Novi Sad</a></b></i>, Vojvodina (Serbia)</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Simferopol" title="Simferopol">Simferopol</a></b></i>, Crimea (Ukraine)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><span style="position: relative; top: 0.2em;"><sup>1</sup></span> Also the capital of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="Kingdom of the Netherlands">Kingdom of the Netherlands</a></li> <li><span style="position: relative; top: 0.2em;"><sup>2</sup></span> Continental placement may vary <a href="/wiki/Boundaries_between_the_continents_of_Earth#Asia_and_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Boundaries between the continents of Earth">depending on geographic convention</a> being followed</li> <li><span style="position: relative; top: 0.2em;"><sup>3</sup></span> Also the seat of the European Union, see <a href="/wiki/Institutional_seats_of_the_European_Union" title="Institutional seats of the European Union">Institutional seats of the European Union</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brussels_and_the_European_Union" title="Brussels and the European Union">Brussels and the European Union</a></li> <li><span style="position: relative; top: 0.2em;"><sup>4</sup></span> A city-state</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="20px_Subdivisions_of_the_canton_of_Solothurn" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible 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