Tecknau
Tecknau | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Basel-Country (BL) |
District : | Sissach |
BFS no. : | 2862 |
Postal code : | 4492 |
Coordinates : | 633 477 / 255646 |
Height : | 438 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 425–612 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 2.34 km² |
Residents: | 829 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 354 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | www.tecknau.ch |
Location of the municipality | |
Tecknau is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland .
geography
Tecknau lies in the Eital at 438 m above sea level. M. at the north portal of the Hauenstein base tunnel .
The municipality of Tecknau borders Ormalingen in the northeast, Wenslingen in the east, Kilchberg in the south, Rünenberg in the west and Gelterkinden in the northwest .
history
Cave bears lived in the area early on , and Tegnow was first mentioned in 1296 . In the Middle Ages the place belonged to Homberg and Frohburg and later to Thierstein and Farnsburg . In 1461 Tecknau came to Basel . After the revolution in 1798 it belonged to the Gelterkinden district and later came to the Sissach district. It became known as a tunnel village from 1912 to 1916 when the Hauenstein base tunnel was built.
coat of arms
Green area with a silver, vertical wave pole. This symbolizes the Eibach, surrounded by green meadows.
population
- Proportion of foreigners : 29.2%.
- Religion : 17.8% Roman Catholic , 42.8% Reformed
traffic
Tecknau has an S-Bahn station and is on the Hauenstein railway line with the Hauenstein base tunnel towards Olten - Bern / Lucerne and towards Sissach - Liestal - Basel . In addition, the village is accessible with a post bus line to Gelterkinden.
Attractions
- Erratic block from the Dent-Blanche massif
- Scheideck ruins
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. 350-352.
Web links
- Community of Tecknau on www.baselland.ch ( Memento from August 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Stefan Hess : Tecknau. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Film, Goldrush in Tecknau In: History of Baselland
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 .