New World (Münchenstein)
The New World is a district in Münchenstein ( Canton Basel-Landschaft ) in Switzerland .
location
New World is the geographical name for the area that arose with the beginning of the industrial settlement on the uppermost part of the St. Alban pond .
The St. Alban-Teich canal was artificially created by the St. Alban Monastery in Basel in the 12th century . The St. Alban pond is the first of the still preserved commercial canals in Basel and dates back to the 12th century. In 1152 and 1154, mills and water mills in St. Albantal are mentioned in writing for the first time. The pond itself is only mentioned in writing around 1279. However, it must be assumed that the pond was built at the same time as the mills. In the years 1624/25 the canal was extended upstream through the Brüglinger Plain in the direction of Münchenstein to the Birswasserfall. Here the water is diverted from the Birs .
The New World is the northernmost quarter of Münchenstein, it borders on the municipality of Muttenz to the west and the Dreispitz area to the east . Half of the Dreispitz area is in the municipalities of Basel and Münchenstein.
To the north, the New World borders on St. Jakob an der Birs , a historic quarantine settlement (with infirmary) near Basel . The battle of St. Jakob an der Birs took place here in 1444 .
history
The hammer forge from 1660 is the oldest building on the pond canal and was built by Ludwig Krug. In 1789 the hammer forge was converted into a textile factory. In 1822 Felix Sarasin (1771–1839) set up a cotton mill here. The hammer forge was restored in 1970 by the Chr. Merianische Stiftung and placed under monument protection in 1971.
When Ludwig August Sarasin (1804–31) took over the technical management of the Sarasin & Heusler cotton factory, in 1830 he had the Ehinger villa built nearby. The Ehinger family sold the villa and the Ehinger estate in 1959 to the municipality of Münchenstein, which ceded it to the canton of Baselland in 1962. The villa was inaugurated as a music school in 1973 after the restoration and renovation was completed.
The Ehinger kindergarten, the Neue Welt primary school, the Münchenstein high school and the TSM school center for children and young people with disabilities are also located on the former Ehinger Gut. The Teichweg kindergarten is embedded in a development between the Park im Grünen, Rüttihard, Birs, St. Alban Teich and the Wasserhaus district. The Neue Welt kindergarten is located near the entrance to the park in the country.
The rapidly expanding Basel company André Klein, which specialized in the production of Basler Läckerli, got too tight in Kleinbasel, so they finally settled in the New World in 1910, in the former Sarasin & Heusler cotton spinning mill.
In 1920/21 the cooperative housing estate Wasserhaus was built in the New World quarter. The plans were drawn up by the architect Wilhelm Eduard Brodtbeck from Liestal on the basis of drafts by Hans Benno Bernoulli . But for financial reasons only part of the settlement could be built.
In 1980 the Grün 80 , the 2nd Swiss exhibition for horticulture and landscaping, took place in the Brüglingen plain . About 3.5 million visitors found their way to the Brüglinger Plain. Although the actual site has since been called Park im Grünen, Grün 80 has retained its name, and the Neuewelt tram stop has been renamed Neuewelt / Grün 80. The park in the country is open to the public around the clock. Adjacent to today's park is the Brüglingen Botanical Garden, which was part of the Green 80 exhibition and is maintained by the City of Basel. It includes an English garden , a herb collection and a rhododendron collection. There is also the permanent carriage exhibition of the Basel Historical Museum there.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 31 ′ 38 " N , 7 ° 37 ′ 6" E ; CH1903: 613535 / 264 082