Grenchen

Grenchen () is a municipality in the district Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
With a population of around 16,000 people, it is one of the largest municipalities in the canton of Solothurn.
History.
In the year 1000, a castle was built in Grenchen and was lived in for a few hundred years, but the name Grenchen was not first used until 1131. Its name comes from the Gallo-Romanic word "graneca", which means "by the grainery".