Tecknau

Tecknau
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Basel-Country (BL)
District :	Sissach
BFS no. :	2862
Postal code :	4492
Coordinates :	633 477  /  255646 coordinates: 47 ° 27 '3 "  N , 7 ° 52' 57"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and thirty-three thousand four hundred seventy-seven  /  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 .

• Area : 235  ha , of which 60% forest, 26% agriculture, 14% settlements.

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

See also : List of cultural assets in Tecknau

• 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

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

• 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

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 .