Recherswil

Recherswil is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt, in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. Recherswil is first mentioned in 1278 as Richirswile. Recherswil has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 20.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.6% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 12.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.1%. Out of the forested land, 20.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 43.6% is used for growing crops and 9.2% is pastures, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Wasseramt district, between the Emme and Oesch rivers. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a Ploughshare Sable between two Mullets Or in chief. Recherswil has a population () of . , 8.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 1.4%. It has changed at a rate of 0.5% due to migration and at a rate of -0.2% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks German (1,518 or 95.7%), with Italian being second most common (34 or 2.1%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (9 or 0.6%). There are 3 people who speak French and 1 person who speaks Romansh. the gender distribution of the population was 49.0% male and 51.0% female. The population was made up of 749 Swiss men (44.6% of the population) and 73 (4.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 791 Swiss women (47.1%) and 65 (3.9%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 452 or about 28.5% were born in Recherswil and lived there in 2000. There were 468 or 29.5% who were born in the same canton, while 480 or 30.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 141 or 8.