Biel-Benken

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Biel-Benken
Biel-Benken coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of Basel-CountryCanton of Basel-Country Basel-Country (BL)
District : Arlesheim
BFS no. : 2764i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 4105
Coordinates : 606540  /  261 725 coordinates: 47 ° 30 '22 "  N , 7 ° 31' 32"  O ; CH1903:  606540  /  two hundred sixty-one thousand seven hundred and twenty-five
Height : 317  m above sea level M.
Height range : 304-425 m above sea level M.
Area : 4.12  km²
Residents: 3414 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 829 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.biel-benken.ch
Location of the municipality
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Biel-Benken is a municipality in the Arlesheim district in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland .

geography

Historical aerial photo from 900 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1929

Biel-Benken lies in the Leimental at 317 m above sea level. M. at the entry of the Birsig on Swiss territory . It borders on France with the municipalities of Leymen and Neuwiller , on the canton of Solothurn with Bättwil and Witterswil and on its Basel-Landschaft neighboring municipalities of Oberwil and Therwil . The area of ​​the municipality is 4.12 km², 58% of which are agricultural zones, 20% forests, 21% settlements and 1% unproductive area.

history

The community used to consist of the two Alemannic settlements Biel (Benken minor) and Benken (Benken maior, also Benchon) and were owned by the Basel knight family of Schaler since the 13th century. In 1526 they were sold to the city of Basel . After the Reformation in 1529, Biel and Benken merged into a single parish and a new church was built in Benken in 1621 instead of the two village chapels. In the Thirty Years' War , the two villages fared no better than almost all the surrounding communities, they were looted and set on fire. When the French Revolution broke out , the village was a place of refuge for the Jews from the neighboring Sundgau .

On January 1, 1972, the two communities Biel and Benken merged and have been a political municipality ever since.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Biel-Benken has five silver alarm clocks on a red background . This was also the former coat of arms of Benken and the family coat of arms of the Schaler family. Biel had the same coat of arms until 1971, but with reversed colors.

population

48% of the population are Reformed and 25% Roman Catholic . The proportion of foreigners is 11.3%.

politics

Local government
Parish Church of St. Antonius

The executive , the municipal council for the 2016-2020 legislature, consists of seven part-time councils (as of September 1, 2017):

  • Peter Burch, mayor
  • Irène Fiechter, Vice President, Finance Department
  • Daniel Kaderli, Transport and Environment Department
  • Karin Lier, Social Affairs Department
  • Jean-Daniel Schlegel, Education Department
  • Stephan Wüthrich, Building Construction Department
  • Stefan Felber, civil engineering department

Biel-Benken has set itself the goal of not primarily electing party members to the municipal council, but rather that they should be "elected to the municipal council on the basis of their position and personality" and not on the basis of any party affiliation. Currently only three members of the council are members of a party.

Attractions

  • Village center
  • Parish church of St. Antonius from 1621.
  • Oser monument in memory of the poet pastor Friedrich Oser

Sports

Since December 1991 there is also the Biel-Benken 1991 football club in the municipality of Biel-Benken in addition to various other clubs.

The football player Alexander Frei comes from Biel-Benken. Since 2003 he has been the namesake and patron of the annual Alex Frei Cup soccer junior tournament.

Personalities

literature

  • Hans-Rudolf Heyer: The art monuments of the canton of Basel-Country. Volume I: The Arlesheim district, with introduction to the canton. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 57). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1969, DNB 457321989 .

Web links

Commons : Biel-Benken  - 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. ↑ a b Entry on the municipal council on the official website of the municipality