Drei Höfe is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Heinrichswil-Winistorf and Hersiwil merged to form the new municipality of Drei Höfe.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 2 January 2013
History Heinrichswil is first mentioned in 1317 as Cristan von Heinrichswile.
Hersiwil is first mentioned in 1324 as Hersenwile. It formed a double municipality with Heinrichswil until 1798, when Winistorf joined the other two to form the triple municipality of Hersiwil-Heinrichswil-Winistorf. In 1854 it split into three, separate, independent municipalities. In 1993, Heinrichswil and Winistorf merged again, but Hersiwil remained independent.
Geography
The former municipalities that now make up Drei Höfe have a total combined area of .
Heinrichswil-Winistorf had an area, , of . Of this area, or 50.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 40.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.0% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 The former municipality is located on a hill built up from a moraine on the road between Halten and Seeberg. It consists of the villages of Heinrichswil and Winistorf.
Hersiwil had an area, , of . Of this area, or 67.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.4% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.7% is unproductive land.
Demographics The total population of Drei Höfe () is .
Historic Population The historical population is given in the following chart:Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Bevölkerungsentwicklung nach Region, 1850-2000 accessed 29 January 2011
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