Itingen

Itingen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Basel-Country (BL)
District :	Sissach
BFS no. :	2849
Postal code :	4452
Coordinates :	626088  /  257425 coordinates: 47 ° 28 '1 "  N , 7 ° 47' 5"  O ; CH1903:  626088  /  257425
Height :	363  m above sea level M.
Height range :	334–608 m above sea level M.
Area :	3.13  km²
Residents:	2157 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	689 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.itingen.ch
Location of the municipality

Itingen ( Swiss German Ütige ) is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland .

The T-shaped farming village shows residential and utility buildings from the 16th to 19th centuries, which are lined up on the eaves. The medieval village center was added to the inventory of places worth protecting in Switzerland in 1986.

Itingen should not be confused with I tt ingen in the canton of Thurgau, see Charterhouse or with Ittigen in the canton of Bern.

geography

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1949

The municipality of Itingen is located on the south bank of the Ergolz halfway between Liestal and Sissach .

The municipality of Itingen borders Sissach in the north and east , Zunzgen in the south, Ramlinsburg in the south-west and Lausen in the west .

history

Itingen was first mentioned in a document in 1226 as Utingen . The village belonged to Eptingen until the 15th century before it was sold to the city of Basel by Hans Münch von Gachnang in 1467 . The village center lasted until the 1930s. However, with the construction of an SBB stop in 1925, the village began to develop.

traffic

Itingen has a train station on the SBB line from Basel to Olten , which is served every half hour by the S3 line of the Basel S-Bahn. Additional S-Bahn trains stop in the mornings and evenings, then the trains run every 15 minutes.

The municipality has its own connection to the motorway slip road to the A2 from Basel to Lucerne.

Politics and Commerce

The municipal assembly provides the legislature, the municipal council the executive. The municipal council consists of five non-party members and is elected for four years. Martin Mundwiler currently holds the office of mayor, the term of office ends in June 2020.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the post office and agriculture represented the main branches of industry. The 33 companies from the pharmaceutical, health and technology sectors now offer jobs for around 2000 employees.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Itingen

Personalities

• Johannes Meyer (born October 9, 1801 in Itingen; † July 13, 1877 in Liestal), politician, co-founder of various companies

Image gallery

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  SBB train station

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  Primary school building

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  village street

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  Country road near the village center

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  Country road

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  Housing estate, Fliederweg

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  IKEA warehouse

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. 89-95.

Web links

Commons : Itingen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Itingen
• Dominik Wunderlin: Itingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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. ↑ List of localities of national importance bak.admin.ch Federal Office of Culture, accessed on January 19, 2018
3. ↑ Local history history of the community of Itingen, accessed January 19, 2018
4. ↑ Municipal Council Political Portrait Itingen, accessed on January 19, 2018
5. ↑ Company directory of the community website , accessed on January 19, 2018