page_title: Bellach
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Bellach / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bellacherweiher in Bellach, Kanton Solothurn, Schweiz, angelegt 1548. Im Hintergrund der Weissenstein-Bergzug, Teil der ersten Jurakette. English: Bellacherweiher pond (created in 1548) in Bellach, Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, in front of the Weissenstein range, part of the first Jura mountain chain.
context_page_description: Bellach is a municipality in the district of Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Bellach has an area, as of 2009, of 5.27 square kilometers (2.03 sq mi).  Of this area, 2.5 km² (0.97 sq mi) or 47.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.77 km² (0.30 sq mi) or 14.6% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 1.76 km² (0.68 sq mi) or 33.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.22 km² (0.085 sq mi) or 4.2% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km² (2.5 acres) or 0.2% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 5.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 16.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 9.3%.  Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.5% of the area  Out of the forested land, 12.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 35.1% is used for growing crops and 10.6% is pastures, while 1.7% is used for orchards or vine crops.  Of the water in the municipality, 0.8% is in lakes and 3.4% is in rivers and streams.
  The municipality is located in the Lebern district, in the southern foothills of the Jura Mountains, west of Solothurn.  It consists of the former villages of Ober-Bellach, Nieder-Bellach and Gärisch, which have all grown together.  The municipalities of Biberist, Derendingen, Luterbach, Bellach, Langendorf and Solothurn are considering a merger at a date in the future into the new municipality of with an, as of 2011, undetermined name.
  Bellacher Weiher is a pond and nature preserve in the municipality.
caption: Bellacherweiher
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