Anwil
Anwil | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Basel-Country (BL) |
District : | Sissach |
BFS no. : | 2841 |
Postal code : | 4469 |
Coordinates : | 637 911 / 255657 |
Height : | 588 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 492–659 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 3.95 km² |
Residents: | 566 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 143 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | www.anwil.ch |
Anwil |
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Location of the municipality | |
Anwil ( Swiss German : Ammel ) is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland . Most people in the Basel region are familiar with it because it is mentioned in the first verse of the Baselbieterlied .
geography
Anwil is 600 m above sea level. M. on a plateau of the Table Jura in a sheltered valley and is the easternmost municipality in the Basel-Landschaft half-canton. Its neighboring communities are Oltingen , Wenslingen and Rothenfluh , as well as the Aargau community Wittnau and Solothurn community Kienberg .
The village is accessed from Gelterkinden by a post bus line.
history
The village of Anwil (hamlet of the Arno) first appeared in a document in 1276. In the Middle Ages it belonged to the property of the Counts of Alt-Homburg. From 1400 to 1534 it was gradually transferred to Basel . Anwil was a customs place until 1801, because the border with Austria ran behind the place . During the turmoil of canton division from 1831 to 1833, the village stopped at Basel and then had to join the Basel rural workers.
coat of arms
A golden horizontal stripe and below it on the left a black and on the right a silver half. The golden head of the shield indicates the former rulership of Homburg and the black / silver is reminiscent of Basel and the Lords of Kienberg.
economy
So far the community has remained a farming village and you can find some local businesses.
Attractions
- Village fountain, one of the largest fountains in the canton
- Rural character of the village
- Talweiher nature reserve east of the road to Rothenfluh
The Ergolz flows into the valley pond
literature
- Hans-Rudolf Heyer: The art monuments of the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Volume III: The district of Sissach. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1986 (Art Monuments of Switzerland, Volume 77). ISBN 3-7643-1796-5 . Pp. 9-13.
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Anwil
- Hans-Rudolf Heyer: Anwil (BL). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .