Dornach
Sign in to saveDornach (Swiss German: Dornech) is a municipality in the district of Dorneck in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Dornach
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Brückenheilige Johannes Nepomuk.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Dornach SO COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Solothurn
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SO
- Swiss town.district
- Dorneck
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 4143
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2473
- Swiss town.area
- 5.77
- Swiss town.elevation
- 338
- Swiss town.website
- www.dornach.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Aesch (BL), Arlesheim (BL), Duggingen (BL), Gempen, Hochwald, Reinach (BL)
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Dornach (Swiss German: Dornech) is a municipality in the district of Dorneck in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
==History== thumb|left|Memorial to the Battle of Dornach Dornach is first mentioned in 1223 as de Tornacho. In 1307 it was mentioned as zu Dornach. It has been settled since at least 1223 when a local lay priest was known as Johannes de Tornacho (thought to mean "from the estate of Turnus"). thumbnail|right|Woman from Dornach wearing a traditional costume. The site was the location of the decisive 1499 Battle of Dornach, which ended the Swabian War and effectively ensured the independence of the Old Swiss Confederacy from the Holy Roman Empire. The battle is memorialized in a 1949 relief wall.