Kleinbasel

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Middle bridge with Kleinbasel
Historical aerial photo from 200 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1925

Kleinbasel (formerly inferior Basel ; Basel German Glaibasel ) is called the right part of the Rhenish part of the Swiss city of Basel . The Kleinbasel includes the Kleinbasel old town , the quarters Clara , Rosental , Matthäus , Klybeck , Wettstein , Hirzbrunnen as well as (the formerly independent) Kleinhüningen .

Kleinbasel was regarded as a district of the “common people”, while the upper class of Basel resided in Grossbasel . Even today, Kleinbasel is considered a workers and immigrant district (with the exception of the Wettstein district , which was designed as a bourgeois residential area near the Rhine from the 1920s) and has a far higher proportion of foreigners than the Grossbasel on the left bank of the Rhine. This is why the term “inferior Basel” is sometimes perceived as derogatory, although the word “inferior” originally simply meant “smaller” and by no means “inferior”. The lesser Basel simply means the smaller district.

history

Originally, Kleinbasel was its own city. It was founded in the 13th century and was built on old settled land. Traces were found that went back to the Stone Age . In Roman times, between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, an important traffic axis led from Augusta Raurica to the Upper Rhine area on the right bank of the Rhine. The Teutons followed in the 5th century , their settlement area probably corresponds to the villa Baselahe (village of Basel) mentioned in a document in 788 . A little further down the Rhine was built on 10/11. In the 19th century there was another settlement, the village of Niederbasel , and the "villa Baselahe" was called Oberbasel . Between these two villages stood the parish church of St. Theodor , which belonged to the Bishop of Basel, although it was not in his diocese. The whole area ecclesiastically belonged to the diocese of Constance .

No exact date can be determined for the founding of the city of Kleinbasel, but the construction of the Rhine bridge in 1225 certainly brought an upswing for the areas on the right bank of the Rhine, the beyond or inferior Basel. The city already had a fortification consisting of ditches, and the gate facing down the Rhine, later called Bläsitor , was first mentioned in 1256. The Riehentor followed in 1265 . The founding of the two women's monasteries St. Clara and Klingental contributed significantly to the flourishing of Kleinbasel. Around 1280 a city ​​wall surrounded the city area.

Kleinbasel was stately separated from Grossbasel with its own authorities, but economically the two cities were closely intertwined from the start. The date of the political amalgamation of Greater and Small Basel is generally taken to be the year 1392, when on April 6, Bishop Friedrich von Strasbourg sold the lesser city to Greater Basel for 29,800 guilders. In 1892 the 500 year jubilee was celebrated with a big ceremony and a historic parade .

Vogel Gryff

A traditional festival for the people of Kleinbasel (excluding Kleinhüningen) is the annual parade of Vogel Gryff .

Attractions

Web links

Commons : Kleinbasel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Boos : Historisches Festbuch for the Basler Unification Celebration 1892. Basel 1892.
  2. ^ Daniel Reicke, Valentin Vonder Mühll: The former Charterhouse in Basel. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 836, Series 84). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-85782-836-2 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 2 "  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 17"  E ; CH1903:  612500  /  two hundred sixty-eight thousand five hundred