Fulenbach (High Alemannic: Fulebach) is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
History
Fulenbach is first mentioned in 1226 as in villa Vulenbah. In 1260 it was mentioned as Fulenbach.
Geography
Fulenbach has an area, , of . Of this area, or 49.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 29.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 17.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 3.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.5% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 11.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. Out of the forested land, 27.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 36.3% is used for growing crops and 11.7% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located in the Olten district, in the Aaregäu on a terrace near the Aare river. It consists of the linear village of Fulenbach, the settlement of Stadtacker (which grew up on the site of the medieval town of Fridau after its destruction in 1375) and the outer settlements of Ewigkeit, Färch and Fulenbacher Bad.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Tierced per fess wavy Azure, Argent and Vert and in the first a Mullet Or.
Demographics
Fulenbach has a population () of . , 8.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 5.6%.
Most of the population () speaks German (1,362 or 93.9%), with Albanian being second most common (31 or 2.1%) and Italian being third (10 or 0.7%). There are 7 people who speak French and 3 people who speak Romansh.
, the gender distribution of the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female. The population was made up of 711 Swiss men (44.8% of the population) and 76 (4.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 742 Swiss women (46.7%) and 59 (3.7%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 569 or about 39.2% were born in Fulenbach and lived there in 2000. There were 292 or 20.1% who were born in the same canton, while 420 or 29.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 131 or 9.0% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 14 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 12 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 2 while the foreign population increased by 1. There was 1 Swiss man and 1 Swiss woman who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 7 non-Swiss men and 4 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 10 and the non-Swiss population increased by 17 people. This represents a population growth rate of 1.7%.
The age distribution, , in Fulenbach is; 93 children or 6.4% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 270 teenagers or 18.6% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 90 people or 6.2% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old. 444 people or 30.6% are between 25 and 44, and 376 people or 25.9% are between 45 and 64. The senior population distribution is 126 people or 8.7% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 51 people or 3.5% who are over 80.
, there were 590 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 716 married individuals, 75 widows or widowers and 69 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 564 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 137 households that consist of only one person and 50 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 574 households that answered this question, 23.9% were households made up of just one person and there were 2 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 177 married couples without children, 214 married couples with children There were 27 single parents with a child or children. There were 7 households that were made up of unrelated people and 10 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.