Sissach district

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Sissach district
Basic data
Country: SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of Basel-CountryCanton of Basel-Country Basel-Country (BL)
Main town : Sissach
FSO number : 1304
Area : 141.04  km²
Height range : 334–1001 m above sea level M.
Residents: 35,783 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 254 inhabitants per km²
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Map of Sissach district

The Sissach district is one of five districts in the Swiss canton of Basel-Landschaft . The main town is Sissach .

geography

The Sissach district is located in the southeast of the canton. It includes the Ergolztal with its numerous side valleys, which begins in the south at the Lower Hauenstein Pass on the border with the Canton of Solothurn . In the east and north, the district is bounded by chain of hills that belong to the Table Jura and form the transition to the canton of Aargau . The valley towards the Liestal district is only open in the northeast . The Sissach district is relatively sparsely populated and largely characterized by agriculture, forests and hill country. In contrast to the rest of the canton, it consists largely of small and tiny villages.

Neighboring districts

The district borders in the north on the Rheinfelden district in the canton of Aargau and in the east on the Laufenburg district , also in Aargau , in the south on the Gösgen district in the canton of Solothurn, in the southwest on the Waldenburg district and in the northwest on the Liestal district.

traffic

The railway line runs through the district from Basel to Olten , which overcomes the Jura chain through the Hauenstein base tunnel and is one of the two main feeders of the Gotthard line. To the west of the new route with the base tunnel, the old Hauenstein route runs through the Homburgertal. The latter is only used today with the S9, the Läufelfingerli, for regional traffic and also serves as an alternative route in the event of breakdowns or overloading in the Hauenstein tunnel.

Public transport lines in the Sissach district

The national road and the A2 motorway from Basel to Lucerne and the old pass road over the Unteren Hauenstein run parallel to the railway line.

Political communities

The Sissach district comprises (as of 2014) a total of 29 mostly relatively small communities. There is not a single city in the entire district. List of municipalities:

coat of arms Name of the parish Population
(December 31, 2018) 		Area
in km² 		Inhabitants
per km²
Anwil Anwil 566 3.95 143
Böckten Böckten 820 2.28 360
Buckten Buckten 698 2.00 349
Buus Buus 1066 8.85 120
Diepflingen Diepflingen 756 1.44 525
Gelterkinden Gelterkinden 6200 9.78 634
Haefelfingen Haefelfingen 250 3.97 63
Inhibitions Inhibitions 263 3.39 78
Itingen Itingen 2157 3.13 689
Känerkinden Känerkinden 528 1.48 357
Kilchberg Kilchberg (BL) 159 1.59 100
Laufelfingen Laufelfingen 1291 8.16 158
Corn language Corn language 922 5.08 181
Nut farm Nut farm 263 1.72 153
Oltingen Oltingen 474 7.18 66
Ormalingen Ormalingen 2215 6.93 320
Rickenbach Rickenbach (BL) 596 2.90 206
Rothenfluh Rothenfluh 766 10.95 70
Ruemlingen Ruemlingen 420 2.28 184
Rünenberg Rünenberg 758 4.97 153
Sissach Sissach 6681 8.90 751
Tecknau Tecknau 829 2.34 354
Tennis Tennis 906 4.67 194
Thuringia Thuringia 1364 2.26 604
Wenslingen Wenslingen 722 5.92 122
Wintersingen Wintersingen 620 6.95 89
Wittinsburg Wittinsburg 424 3.20 133
Zeglingen Zeglingen 508 7.91 64
Touches Touches 2561 6.86 373
Total (29) 35,783 141.04 254

Web links

Commons : Sissach district  - collection of images, 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. ↑ Federal Statistical Office Generalized Limits 2020.