Seltisberg

Seltisberg
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Basel-Country (BL)
District :	Liestal
BFS no. :	2833
Postal code :	4411
Coordinates :	621 035  /  256589 coordinates: 47 ° 27 '35 "  N , 7 ° 43' 3"  O ; CH1903:  621 035  /  256589
Height :	494  m above sea level M.
Height range :	336-521 m above sea level M.
Area :	3.56  km²
Residents:	1301 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	365 inhabitants per km²
Website:	seltisberg.ch
Location of the municipality

Seltisberg ( Swiss German : Sältischberg [ ˈsæld̥iʃb̥ə̆ɾg̥ ]) is a municipality in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland .

geography

Historical aerial photo from 900 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1930

Seltisberg is located on a high plateau at 491 m. ü. M. between the Oristal and the valley of the Hinteren Frenke. Of the 357 hectares of the village ban, 139 hectares are forest.

The neighboring communities include (clockwise from the north) Liestal , Bubendorf , Lupsingen and Nuglar-St. Pantaleon ( Canton of Solothurn ).

history

Archaeological finds show that the area of ​​Seltisberg was already settled in the Stone Age. It is certain that the Romans had an estate here. Seltisberg was first mentioned in a document in 1194: as "Selboldisperch". The village then belonged to the Frohburgers. In 1305 it came to the bishop and in 1400 to the city of Basel . In 1803 Seltisberg was assigned to the Liestal district. In 1855 the community was hit by a cholera epidemic due to unclean drinking water .

coat of arms

Seltisberg has had an official coat of arms since 1944. It is divided into two halves by a horizontal line. In the upper area there is a silver strawberry blossom with a golden center and green leaves on a red background. The lower half is white. The strawberry blossom is reminiscent of the Seltisberger's earlier nickname: "Ärbeerischnitzer" (strawberry carver). The coat of arms is very similar to that of the in the canton of Bern located Seftigen . They only differ in the division in the middle and the strawberry blossom.

Personalities

• Jakob Erzberger (1843–1920), missionary and preacher of the Seventh-day Adventists
• René Rhinow (* 1942), lawyer, former Council of States (FDP), former President of the Swiss Red Cross (SRK)

literature

• Johann Jakob Grauwiller: Local history of Seltisberg 1864. Seltisberg community, Seltisberg 1991. OCLC 601056396 .
• 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. 397-400.
• Christa Gysin-Scholer, Peter Otto Rentsch: Seltisberg. A local lore. Verlag des Kantons Basel-Landschaft, Liestal 1994, ISBN 3-856-73520-8 .

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Seltisberg
• Official website of the Bürgergemeinde Seltisberg
• Christa Gysin-Scholer: Seltisberg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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. ↑ Seltisberg: On the trail of the manor house of the Roman estate? on archaeologie.bl. Retrieved May 31, 2014.
3. ↑ History on seltisberg.ch
4. ^ Verlag von Meyer & Zeller, Zurich 1856: Scientific monthly publication - 365. on archive.org