Sissach

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Sissach
Sissach coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of Basel-CountryCanton of Basel-Country Basel-Country (BL)
District : Sissach
BFS no. : 2861i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 4450
UN / LOCODE : CH SSH
Coordinates : 628 048  /  257131 coordinates: 47 ° 27 '52 "  N , 7 ° 48' 38"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred twenty-eight thousand and forty-eight  /  257131
Height : 372  m above sea level M.
Height range : 349–746 m above sea level M.
Area : 8.90  km²
Residents: 6681 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 751 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.sissach.ch
Location of the municipality
Deutschland Deutschland Kanton Aargau Kanton Solothurn Kanton Solothurn Bezirk Liestal Bezirk Waldenburg Anwil Böckten Buckten Buus Diepflingen Gelterkinden Häfelfingen Hemmiken Itingen Känerkinden Kilchberg BL Läufelfingen Maisprach Nusshof Oltingen Ormalingen Rickenbach BL Rothenfluh Rümlingen Rünenberg Sissach Tecknau Tenniken Thürnen Wenslingen Wintersingen Wittinsburg Zeglingen ZunzgenMap of Sissach
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Sissach is a political municipality and at the same time the capital of the district of the same name in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland .

geography

Historical aerial photo from 400 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1919

Sissach is nestled in heavily forested hills in the Ergolztal . 22.7% of the community area is settled, 29.6% are used for agriculture, 47.3% are forested and 0.3% are unproductive.

history

In 1226 Sissach was first mentioned as Sissaho .

The first traces of living quarters on the Burgenrain can be dated to the Neolithic . For the Bronze Age , settlement remains have emerged north of the Sissacher Flue. 600-100 BC The Celts settled in the Burgenrain. When Bützenen a Roman estate was found.

The Sisgau was first mentioned in a document in 835. In 1041, the future Emperor Heinrich III. (HRR) the Sisgau to the Bishop of Basel . The Lords of Eptingen - as fiefs of the Bishop of Basel - built Bischofstein Castle (right next to Itkon Castle ), which was destroyed by the Basel earthquake in 1356 . The city of Basel bought the rights and the village of Sissach in 1461 and 1465.

A village school has been documented in Sissach since 1601, headed by Peter Zweibrucker as the first teacher. With the construction of the railway line in 1855, Sissach experienced an economic boom.

coat of arms

Blazon

Divided vertically into a red and a silver half, each with a raised arm in the opposite color

The coat of arms was adopted from the family coat of arms of the von Sissach family in 1944 . The flag colors of the municipality are red and white. Raised arms and open palms can be understood as religious signs and peaceful symbols. The concrete meaning, however, is in the dark.

population

The permanent resident population has increased by 7.1% since 1992 due to immigration and the birth surplus.

politics

The SVP won 24.3%, the SP 21%, the FDP 20.7%, the Greens 23.9%, the CVP 2.5% and the EPP 3.1% of the votes in the last elections . 4.5% of the votes went to other parties.

After August 1, 2013, the seven-member municipal council (executive) consists of the following parties: 2 holly (Greens), 2 SP, 3 non-party.

economy

The economic life of Sissach is characterized by individual larger companies as well as by the numerous small and medium-sized traders and companies that either serve local demand or produce as specialized suppliers for large companies. The largest company by far is Georg Fischer JRG AG, a subsidiary of Georg Fischer AG . It is a producer of drinking water installation systems sold worldwide and employs around 400 people.

The Ebenrain Agricultural Center is important for agriculture .

traffic

Sissach is on the Hauenstein line Basel - Olten of the SBB ( timetable field 500). According to the 2015/16 timetable, Sissach is served twice an hour by the S3 S-Bahn from Basel to Basel or Olten. An InterRegio connects Sissach with Basel and Lucerne via Olten every hour, and another hourly with Basel and St. Gallen via Zurich, whereby this travels as EuroCity to Munich three times a day . Don't forget the S9 with hourly connection via Läufelfingen over the old Hauenstein route to Olten.

The old Hauenstein route of the Centralbahn via Läufelfingen to Olten branches off the main line at Sissach station. To the south of the station you can still discover the old locomotive depot with its turntable and water tower .

From 1891 to 1916, before the Hauenstein base tunnel went into operation, the Sissach-Gelterkinden-Bahn tram connected Sissach with the community of Gelterkinden .

Sissach is an important starting point for various Upper Basel bus routes that connect the surrounding villages to public transport .

Sissach is on Hauptstrasse 2 , which leads from the canton capital Liestal over the Unteren Hauenstein to Olten. In the west, the community has its own connection to the A2 motorway and is therefore easy to reach by car.

Culture

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An important date for Sissach is the ban day , which takes place on the Saturday before ascension. Traditionally only men take part in this. The loud custom (with shooting for the day) is organized in Sissach by the local community. Many visitors from the surrounding communities are also attracted by the three goods markets (in spring, summer and autumn), especially the Herbschtmäärt (autumn market) in November is a secret Sissach holiday, on which schools are also closed.

Around 112 clubs were registered in Sissach at the beginning of 2015, in addition to gymnastics club, ice hockey club (Zunzgen-Sissach) and football club (Sportverein Sissach), there are also exotic club names with names such as Bierstürzer Sissach or the Nuggi-Clique ( Nuggi is the Swiss German word for "pacifier") to find. The latter two belong to the many carnival groups in and around Sissach.

A local country band is the Sissecher Holzmusig .

The village is home to one of the few cinemas in the region outside of Basel ( Cinema Palace ). It was bought by the Sissach community and is operated by them.

«Fasnecht»

The Sissacher Fasnecht is one of the most important part of the Sissach culture. This originated in 1928, when the still active soother clique Sissech entertained the village for the first time with traditional Basel marches. Since then, the carnival community has grown steadily.

The Sissecher Fasnecht has some connections to the Basler Fasnacht : In Sissach the Morgestraich is also carried out on Monday at 4:00 am , but unlike in Basel, this is more like a "gässlä" than a parade. In addition, the Fasnecht has already started in Sissach (start on Sunday 2:00 p.m.). As in Basel, the restaurants and pubs will be entertained with schnitzel banks on Monday evening .

Another connection was suspected to Liestal, since Chienbäsen are also burned in Sissach on Monday evening . However, a difference is visible in the lantern floats. While in Liestal the focus is on fire, in Sissach the blaze of color is the focus.

The completion of Sissecher Fasnecht forms the "Chluri" -Cremation. This is a pure Sissacher tradition.

Attractions

  • The Ebenrain Castle was built in the years 1774/75 for the Basel manufacturers Martin Bachofen Heitz. It is now owned by the canton of Basel-Landschaft and is used for art exhibitions, concerts and lectures.
  • The Cheesmeyer department store is a well-preserved example of early 20th century department store architecture . The building from 1901 was included in the cantonal inventory of protected cultural monuments.
  • The executioner's museum is a rich collection of original equipment from the dark side of justice. The ruin Sissacherfluh is another attraction.

Personalities

  • Sissacher Fluh

  • Ebenrain Castle

  • reformed Church

  • Local museum

literature

  • 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. 280-349.
  • Hans-Rudolf Heyer: Ebenrain Castle in Sissach . Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 1992, ISBN 3-85782-513-8 , ( Schweizerische Kunstführer Vol. 513, Series 52).

Web links

Commons : Sissach  - 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. ^ Paul Suter: The municipal arms of the canton Baselland. Liestal 1984, pp. 152-155.
  3. ↑ http://www.sissach.ch/de/freizeitkulturkirchen/brauchum/
  4. ↑ http://www.sissach.ch/de/portrait/fotoalbum/?action=showpict&picid=229229&galid=10719
  5. ↑ http://www.sissach.ch/de/freizeitkulturkirchen/vereine/vereinsliste/
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fgs-sissach.ch
  7. ↑ Brigitte Frei-Heitz: The "Cheesmeier" department store in Sissach. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 743, Series 75). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2004, ISBN 3-85782-743-2 .