Pratteln

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Pratteln
Pratteln coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of Basel-CountryCanton of Basel-Country Basel-Country (BL)
District : Liestal
BFS no. : 2831i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 4133
UN / LOCODE : CH ATT
Coordinates : 619 296  /  262 960 coordinates: 47 ° 31 '2 "  N , 7 ° 41' 41"  O ; CH1903:  619 296  /  262,960
Height range : 254–652 m above sea level M.
Area : 10.71  km²
Residents: i16,626 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 1552 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.pratteln.ch
Industrial quarter in the west of Pratteln

Industrial quarter in the west of Pratteln
Location of the municipality
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Pratteln ( Swiss German Brattele [ ˈbʀɑtːələ ]) is a municipality in the Liestal district of the Swiss canton of Basel-Landschaft .

geography

Aerial photo from 500 m by Walter Mittelholzer , 1922

Pratteln is 298 m above sea level. M., bounded in the north by the Rhine ( border between Germany and Switzerland ) and in the south by the Gempenplateau and the Adlerberg . The community also includes the Schweizerhalle industrial area and part of the large Basel-Muttenz marshalling yard . The neighboring communities of Pratteln are Augst , Füllinsdorf , Frenkendorf , Muttenz , Gempen in Solothurn and Grenzach-Wyhlen in Germany on the northern bank of the Rhine .

  • Area : 1,070  ha , of which 42% settlements, 29% agriculture, 28% forest, 1% unproductive area.

history

Pratteln was settled very early; Remains from the Middle and New Stone Age were found , such as the at least 120,000 year old hand ax from Pratteln , as well as the Iron Age , for example Celtic burial mounds, foundations of Roman estates and grave finds from the early Middle Ages .

The place name goes back to the late Romanesque * pradella "small meadow", a diminutive of the Latin prātum "meadow". Since the place name only partially took part in the second sound shift (the later shift from Germanic / d / to Old High German / t /, but not the earlier shift from / p / to / pf /), one can deduce that the place has been for a long time formed a Romance language island in the midst of the immigrating Alemanni and the language change probably only took place in the 8th or 9th century.

In 1102 or 1103 the name Brattelo appears for the first time as the courtyard of the St. Alban monastery in Basel and in 1250 the church of Bratelle was mentioned in a Basel document. Pratteln was owned by the Eptinger family for almost 200 years. The Eptinger castles on Madeln and in the village were destroyed in the great Basel earthquake of 1356 . In 1476 the village received from the German Emperor Friedrich III. perpetual tax exemption and the right to hold a market from October 1st to 3rd every year.

In 1521 the Eptinger property was sold to the city of Basel and Pratteln became federal .

During the turmoil of separation between the cantons , in which Pratteln was on the side of the countryside, the village was partially destroyed on August 3, 1833 by the troops of the city of Basel. The three-storey rebuilt farmhouses on the main street opposite the Hotel Engel and in the outskirts are witnesses of the destruction. On June 7, 1837, the saline Schweizerhalle began to extract brine , which marked the beginning of industrialization for the village.

coat of arms

Blazon

Inside a black border in gold a red-tongued and red-armored black eagle lying on the right

The eagle comes from the coat of arms of the Eptingen, the former castle and village owners (see coat of arms Eptingen ).

population

politics

Since the general elections on February 9, 2020, the Prattler municipal council ( executive ) has consisted of two representatives each from the FDP , the independents / Greens and the SP , as well as one representative from the SVP .

The residents' council ( legislature ) is composed as follows:

list Seats Distribution of seats in 2020
Social Democratic Party 12 seats
9
12
2
7th
10
9 12 2 7th 10 


Swiss People's Party 10 seats
Independent Pratteln and Green Pratteln 9 seats
The liberal 7 seats
The strong middle ( CVP , BDP and EVP ) 2 seats

In the Swiss parliamentary elections 2019, the share of the vote in Pratteln was: SP 27.1%, SVP 24.8%, Greens 19.2%, FDP 14.1%, CVP 8.3%, glp 3.2%, EPP 2, 2%, BDP 1.2%.

Economy and Transport

Pratteln in the border triangle

Pratteln is a typical suburb of Basel . A lot of industry has settled, but the community in the village center and also in the southern part is very keen to be considered a residential community with a high quality of life. With just over 15,000 inhabitants, it is already a small town and has one of the highest rates of foreigners in the whole of the canton of Baselland , especially in the slab-building districts of Längi and Rankacker .

Pratteln has a motorway connection to the A2 towards Basel (Germany / France) and Mittelland (Lucerne, Gotthard, Zurich, Bern). The SBB lines Basel– Olten and Basel – Zurich run through Pratteln ; however, almost all S-Bahn trains on lines S1 and S3 stop there . In addition, Pratteln has been connected to Basel by tram line 14 since 1922 . In 2004, the Pratteln train station was expanded and modernized to be barrier-free and the number of lockers increased. With the timetable change in December 2008, Pratteln received another S-Bahn stop with Pratteln Salina Raurica .

Hardwasser AG is also located in the municipality of Pratteln . A traditional company in Pratteln was the steel construction company Albert Buss & Cie. on the site of today's Buss industrial park.

Pratteln is also known nationwide for the Z7 concert factory, which hosts a large number of rock and metal events and publishes its own magazine every quarter. A closure in 2014 in favor of a hardware store was averted. The Migros Basel cooperative has been trying to set up an Obi hardware store on the site since 2005 .

Attractions

  • Old derrick of the Rheinsaline, going back to 1837
  • Old parish church, which forms the core of the oldest settlement, was first mentioned in 1250 and rests on Romanesque foundations. Around the church, the alleys diverge in a star shape.
  • Town house, village museum in a farmhouse from the 16th century.
  • Joerin Gut, Basel country estate from the 18th century.
  • Mayenfels country estate, built in 1726/27
  • Pratteln Castle , former pond castle from 1275.
  • Museum The salt chamber in the Villa Glenck , built in 1860 next to the Schweizerhalle saltworks as the director's residence , with a surrounding landscape park
  • Motorway service station Pratteln , executed in the style of the 1970s as a motorway bridge

  • Pratteln Castle

  • Old derrick of the Rheinsaline

  • Facade detail of the Pratteln motorway bridge

  • Town house and museum

  • Grossmattschulhaus

  • Catholic Church

  • Reformed village church

  • Aquabasilea (leisure pool)

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Pratteln  - 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. ↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 716.
  3. ↑ Results of the 2020 municipal council elections. Canton Basel-Country Chancellery, February 9, 2020, accessed on February 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Results of the 2020 residents' council elections. Canton Basel-Landschaft Chancellery, February 9, 2020, accessed on February 10, 2020 .
  5. ^ Federal Statistical Office : NR - Results parties (municipalities) (INT1). In: Federal Elections 2019 | opendata.swiss. August 8, 2019, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Z7 vs. DIY store press report at 20min.ch
  7. ↑ Michel Ecklin: Velowege is missing : Hardware store still does not come In: basellandschaftlichezeitung.ch , September 25, 2018, accessed on September 26, 2018.