Lausen BL

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BL is the abbreviation for the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Lausenf .
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Lausen's coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of Basel-CountryCanton of Basel-Country Basel-Country (BL)
District : Liestal
BFS no. : 2828i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 4415
Coordinates : 624 212  /  258 030 coordinates: 47 ° 28 '21 "  N , 7 ° 45' 35"  O ; CH1903:  624 212  /  258030
Height : 343  m above sea level M.
Height range : 320-589 m above sea level M.
Area : 5.57  km²
Residents: 5210 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 935 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		28.7%
Website: www.lausen.ch
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Location of the municipality
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Lausen is a municipality in the Liestal district of the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland .

geography

Lausen is located in the middle Ergolztal southeast of Liestal , with which it has now grown together.

history

Lausen Church, 2006
Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1949

The first mention of Lausen comes from 1275: as «Langenso». The origin of the name is unknown. Soil findings have shown that tools were made in this area as early as the Paleolithic.

The church, which is far from today's village center, belonged to Bettenach , an important village settlement that was inhabited from the late Roman period (5th century) to the Middle Ages (12th century), as the studies from 1985-1992 showed. An iron melt is said to have been located between Furlen and Itingen , and the Roman aqueduct to Augusta Raurica began in the Heidenloch between Lausen and Liestal .

In 1305 the parish became the property of the Bishop of Basel . Around 1400 the municipality became the property of the city of Basel. In the Unterdorf an der Ergolz the paper mill of the former Basel family Dürig was built in 1570 (taken over in 1632 by Peter Dürig-Merian). In the 18th century, home-made cloth and ribbon weaving began in Lausen. There has been a railway connection in town since 1858. From 1872 clay was mined in Lausen, which was very important for the economy, and burned to tiles and bricks. From 1910 industrial use of limestone.

coat of arms

Lausen has had an official coat of arms since 1938. It is divided into two halves by a horizontal line. In the upper half there are three golden balls on a black background. These go back to a legend by Nicholas of Myrha and symbolize three golden balls. Saint Nicholas had given these three virgins to ensure their livelihood. He is the namesake of the parish of St. Niklaus, Lausen. In the lower area there are two crossed golden pickaxes on a red background. The pickaxes represent the mining of iron ore and limestone in Lausen, which was once of great importance for the community. The coat of arms was created by a Lausen class as part of a school project.

Attractions

  • The Evangelical Reformed Church with Sigrist House

Personalities

  • Hans Treyer (before 1500–1529), Anabaptist and executed in Bern
  • Johann Jakob Balmer (1825–1898), mathematician and physicist
  • Gertrud Lendorff (1900–1986), art historian and writer
  • Walter Buser (1926–2019), legal scholar and Federal Chancellor, born in Lausen and honorary citizen
  • Max Martin (1939–2016), professor at the University of Basel
  • Steve Ballmer (* 1956), son of an emigrant from Lausen, was CEO of the software company Microsoft from 2000 to 2014
  • Daniela Gaugler (* 1962), politician
  • Cloudride , rock group

literature

  • Hans-Rudolf Heyer: The art monuments of the canton of Basel-Country, Volume II: The district of Liestal. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1974 (Art Monuments of Switzerland Volume 62). ISBN 3-7643-0727-7 . Pp. 142-180.

Web links

Commons : Lausen  - 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. ↑ Hans-Rudolf Heyer: The church of Lausen. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 164). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1974, ISBN 978-3-85782-164-6 .