Thuringia

Thuringia
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Basel-Country (BL)
District :	Sissach
BFS no. :	2864
Postal code :	4441
Coordinates :	629 487  /  256155 coordinates: 47 ° 27 '20 "  N , 7 ° 49' 47"  O ; CH1903:  629487  /  256155
Height :	391  m above sea level M.
Height range :	377–637 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.26  km²
Residents:	1364 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	604 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.thuernen.ch
Location of the municipality

Thürnen ( Swiss German : Türne , [ ˈdyrnə ]) is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland .

geography

Thürnen is located southeast of Sissach on the banks of the Homburgerbach , a tributary of the Ergolz . The village lies at the foot of the lower Hauenstein , which leads to Olten .

The municipality of Thürnen borders Sissach in the northwest , Böckten in the northeast, Gelterkinden in the east, Diepflingen in the southeast , Wittinsburg and Tenniken in the south and Zunzgen in the west .

history

Thürnen was first mentioned in a document in 1101 as Durnum .

traffic

Although the old Hauensteinbahn line runs right through the village, Thürnen does not have its own train station. The Sissach train station is less than a kilometer from the village center and the community is also connected to the public transport network by bus line 108.

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. 368-371.

Web links

Commons : Thürnen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Thürnen
• Page about Thürnen on the website of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft ( Memento from August 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Philippe Hofmann: Thuringia. 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. ↑ ^{a b} Philipp Obrist: Thürnen BL (Sissach) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss municipality names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 874.