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Basic data
Country: SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of Basel-CountryCanton of Basel-Country Basel-Country (BL)
Main town : To run
FSO number : 1302
Area : 89.56  km²
Height range : 293–865 m above sea level M.
Residents: 19,912 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 222 inhabitants per km²
map
Map of the district of Laufen

The district of Laufen , also known as Laufental , is one of five districts in the Swiss canton of Basel-Landschaft . The main place is running . Until 1994 the district belonged to the canton of Bern .

geography

View towards Laufental from Neu-Thierstein Castle . You can see Laufen, Dittingen, Blauen and Brislach, among others

The nearly 90 km² Laufental with the thirteen communities Blauen , Brislach , Burg im Leimental , Dittingen , Duggingen , Grellingen , Laufen , Liesberg , Nenzlingen , Roggenburg , Röschenz , Wahlen and Zwingen is located in the economic region of northwestern Switzerland , a stone's throw from Basel . It borders the cantons of Jura and Solothurn and touches the French state border to the west .

history

After Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig at the end of 1813 , the allied armies (Russia, Prussia, Austria) marched towards France. In disregard of Swiss neutrality allowed Basel 1814 80,000 soldiers crossing the middle bridge and the march through the former Bishopric of Basel to fight against Napoleon's army. This gesture was not forgotten at the Congress of Vienna and, under certain conditions, brought the Basel stand to the incorporation of the nine Catholic villages of Birseck .

In Vienna in 1815, the victorious powers first had to elect a new ruler over the abandoned prince-bishopric who could militarily defend the gates and the passes . It was precisely this area that the French used in 1797 as a pretext for invading Switzerland. Basel was not suitable for this. Only Bern had the necessary military power. In addition, Bern and Biel and the southern Jurassic valleys were burggled .

The Aargau and Vaud that Bern had already lost 1803've been through, Act of Mediation recognized as cantons, and the question of compensation Berns seemed secondary. In 1815 the rule of Pfeffingen had not existed for more than twenty years. It would have made little sense not to assign Duggingen and Grellingen to Bern. The Birstal forms a geographical unit up to Angenstein Castle , which for the Bernese was a strategic cluster and the gateway to the Jura .

Basel didn't want the Laufentaler. It was content with the merger of the villages of Biel and Benken with the Birseck. Similar to the Fricktal in 1803 , Basel did not want Catholics or too many farmers. As early as 1798, rural workers had set three bailiffs' castles on fire, and Basel was hard hit by their rebellion until 1833.

When the Jura became an independent canton in 1979, the Laufental, which had been isolated from the canton of Bern and had become an exclave , was given the opportunity to join a neighboring canton or stay with Bern. The cantons of Solothurn , Basel-Landschaft and Basel-Stadt were available for election . The selected canton is compared to the canton of Bern. After the first referendum on January 13, 1980, Basel-Landschaft (52%) and Solothurn (32%) were shortlisted, while Basel-Stadt (16%) fell. In the second vote on March 16, 1980, Basel-Landschaft (65%) emerged victorious; the “Action Committee for Solothurn” had no effect. In the referendum on September 11, 1983, when it came to deciding whether to go for Bern or for Baselland, almost 57 percent of the district's population voted to stay with Bern. But after it became known in 1984 that the canton of Bern had illegally provided “Aktion Bernisches Laufental” with money, a legal dispute broke out for years. Ultimately, the Federal Supreme Court demanded that the referendum be repeated, and on November 12, 1989, the Laufentaler decided with a majority of 51.7 percent in favor of belonging to the canton of Baselland. On January 1, 1994, after the Swiss Confederation as a whole had approved the change of canton , it joined the canton of Basel-Landschaft.

Ruling flag Zwingen-Laufen in the Principality of Basel

Political communities

coat of arms Name of the parish Population
(December 31, 2018) 		Area
in km² 		Inhabitants
per km²
Blues Blues 0691 7.12 97
Brislach Brislach 1652 9.42 175
Castle in the Leimental Castle in the Leimental 0263 2.84 93
Things Things 0729 6.75 108
Duggingen Duggingen 1541 5.86 263
Grellingen Grellingen 1845 3.29 561
To run To run 5619 11.40 493
Liesberg Liesberg 1129 12.46 91
Nenzlingen Nenzlingen 0443 3.66 121
Roggenburg Roggenburg 0276 6.67 41
Röschenz Röschenz 1863 10.07 185
elections elections 1462 5.41 270
To force To force 2399 4.61 520
Total (13) 19,9120 89.56 222

literature

Web links

Commons : Bezirk Laufen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ A stone's throw: colloquial for “at a short distance”.
  3. ↑ Gustav Steiner : The breach of Swiss neutrality in 1813. New Year's Gazette of the GGG , Basel 1924 (127 pages).
  4. ↑ G.-A. Chevallaz: Histoire générale de 1789 à nos jours. 1974, p. 83.
  5. ^ Lecture by Marco Jorio, Association of Friends of the Arlesheim Cathedral, April 19, 1989.
  6. ^ Jean-Jacques Kottelat, Basler Zeitung, August 24, 1991
  7. ^ Adolf Walther: Rund um den Baselstab, Volume 2, 1977, p. 197.
  8. ^ Martina Lichtsteiner, Basler Zeitung, March 18, 1993
  9. ^ Fritz Meier: Basler Heimatgeschichte. 1982, p. 559.
  10. ↑ Laufental, change of canton. In: DIJU - Lexicon of the Jura. Société jurassienne d'Emulation, accessed June 5, 2018 .
  11. ↑ The homesickness of the loyal Laufentaler. NZZ , October 7, 2013
  12. ↑ Federal Statistical Office Generalized Limits 2020.