Ormalingen

Ormalingen

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Basel-Country Basel-Country (BL)
District :	Sissach
BFS no. :	2856i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	4466
UN / LOCODE :	CH OLG
Coordinates :	632819 / 257718 coordinates: 47 ° 28 '10 " N , 7 ° 52' 26" O ; CH1903: 632819 / 25771847.46942 7.87394 419
Height :	419 m above sea level M.
Height range :	407–755 m above sea level M.
Area :	6.93 km²
Residents:	2215 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	320 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.ormalingen.ch
Ormalingen
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Ormalingen , in the Swiss German local dialect Ormalinge [ˈormɑˌlɪŋə] , is a political municipality in the district of Sissach in the Swiss canton of Basel-Landschaft .

geography

Historical aerial photo from 600 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1922

Ormalingen is 423 m above sea level. M. in Ergolztal, east of Gelterkinden. Its neighboring communities are Buus , Rickenbach BL , Gelterkinden , Tecknau , Wenslingen , Rothenfluh and Hemmiken .

The municipal area is 694 ha , of which 52% is agricultural use, 38% is forest and 10% is settlements.

history

Ormalingen was settled early on, so a Roman villa and rich early medieval graves were found. The settlement was first mentioned as Normandy in 1286 . The place name is derived from the Old High German personal name Nordeman, Nordmann .

In the Middle Ages, the Counts of Frohburg , Homburg and Thierstein and the Barons of Falkenstein owned this village one after the other . In 1461 Ormalingen came to the city of Basel with the rule of Thierstein-Farnsburg .

coat of arms

Blazon :

divided by gold with a red star and blue

It shows the seal of the noblemen of Zielemp, who owned goods in Ormalingen around the middle of the 14th century.

population

Proportion of foreigners : 10.2%
Religion : 63% Reformed , 17% Roman Catholic

economy

Ormalingen is a commercial village. There are also some farms.

Attractions

Farnsburg ruin
Parish church with frescoes from the 14th century

Ormalingens Church

photos

reformed Church
Milchhus, village center
Row of houses, Farnsburgerstrasse
Primary school building
Parish hall
Reformed rectory
Buchhüsli (wash house)
Heuschürli, Be

literature

Dominik Wunderlin: Ormalingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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. 205-233.

Web links

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

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

Individual evidence

↑ 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 .
↑ ^a ^b Lexicon of Swiss Community Names , ed. from the Center de dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol, Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 682.

[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 .

[lsg-2] Lexicon of Swiss Community Names , ed. from the Center de dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol, Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 682.