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Coat of arms of Schönenbuch
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of Basel-CountryCanton of Basel-Country Basel-Country (BL)
District : Arlesheim
BFS no. : 2774i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 4124
Coordinates : 604 774  /  265 164 coordinates: 47 ° 32 '14 "  N , 7 ° 30' 7"  O ; CH1903:  604 774  /  265 164
Height : 359  m above sea level M.
Height range : 315–406 m above sea level M.
Area : 1.35  km²
Residents: 1396 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 1034 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.schoenenbuch.ch
Aerial view of Schönenbuch

Aerial view of Schönenbuch
Location of the municipality
Deutschland Deutschland Frankreich Kanton Aargau Kanton Basel-Stadt Kanton Solothurn Kanton Solothurn Bezirk Laufen Bezirk Liestal Aesch BL Allschwil Arlesheim Biel-Benken Binningen Birsfelden Bottmingen Ettingen Münchenstein Muttenz Oberwil BL Pfeffingen BL Reinach BL Schönenbuch TherwilMap of Schönenbuch
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Schönenbuch ( Basel German : Schönebuech ) is a municipality in the Arlesheim district of the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland .

Government building in Schönenbuch
The municipal administration of Schönenbuch.

geography

Schönenbuch is located in the Sundgau at 355 m above sea level. M. and is the second smallest municipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. The village is enclosed on three sides by France (communes of Neuwiller and Hagenthal-le-Bas). Only in the northeast does it have a connection to the Allschwil municipality in Basel . The area of ​​the municipality is 136 hectares, of which 71% is agricultural area, 27% is settlements and 2% is forest.

history

Schönenbuch was first mentioned in a document in 1315. The Alemannic hamlet was named after a nearby beech wood. In the Middle Ages, the St. Klara Monastery in Schönenbuch in Basel owned a farm, which repeatedly changed hands and in the 17th century fell to the Solothurn estate . Since Schönenbuch was always under the sovereignty of the Bishop of Basel , it shared the fate of the Episcopal Bailiwick of Birseck : part of the Raurachian Republic in 1792, French in 1793, Basler from 1815 and part of the canton of Baselland from 1832/33. Schönenbuch was ecclesiastically connected with Hagenthal until 1781 and with Allschwil from 1781 and owned a chapel. In 1825 it got its own church and in 1837 its own pastor. In 1862 Schönenbuch became an independent parish. Thanks to its proximity to the city of Basel, Schönenbuch has developed from a farming village into a popular place to live since the Second World War.

coat of arms

Silver background and inside a red beech tree on a green three-mountain. The beech stands for the community name -buch (e) and the Dreiberg indicates the altitude of the village. However, the official coat of arms was not introduced until 1945. The flag is white and red.

population

39% of the population are Roman Catholic, 32% are Reformed. The proportion of foreigners is 8.4%.

economy

A lot of agriculture is still practiced in the community. The farmers of Schönenbuch cultivated a large part of their fields on Alsace soil and, with the appropriate permit (duty-free pass), carry the fruit across the border into Switzerland. The largest employer in the municipality is the logistics company Dima Service AG, founded in 1973 and headquartered in Schönenbuch, which employs over 100 people in its branches.

traffic

Schönenbuch in winter 2006
Church of John the Baptist
Main street in the village of Schönenbuch
The "Mittlere Feldweg" in Schönenbuch with the Schönenbuch water tower in the background.

Schönenbuch is connected to the city of Basel by bus route 33 operated by Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB) via Allschwil . Roads lead to Allschwil and Neuwiller in France .

Attractions

  • Church of John the Baptist: built in 1825, high altar in 1850 by Jodok Friedrich Wilhelm. Two altarpieces by Johann Battista Keller from 1760 come from the side altars of the Mumpf church and were purchased in 1950.
  • Rectory and farmhouses in the Alsatian half-timbered style.

Personalities

Varia

Schönenbuch is mentioned in the first line of the Baselbieterlied , the unofficial anthem of the canton of Basel-Landschaft. This honor is due to the fact that it was the westernmost municipality in the canton up to the connection with the Laufental.

literature

  • Hans-Peter Farner (editor): Heimatkunde Schönenbuch , Liestal: Verlag des Kantons Basel-Landschaft, 1994, ISBN 3-85673-521-6 .
  • Hans-Rudolf Heyer: The art monuments of the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Volume I: The Arlesheim district, with cantonal introduction. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 57). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1969.
  • CA Müller: History of the village of Schönenbuch , Basel: Komm. Helbig and Lichtenhahn, 1980, ISBN 3-7190-0768-5 .
Bus stops at the station.
BVB bus no. 33 at the Schönenbuch Dorf stop.

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. ^ Company website

Web links

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