Wittinsburg

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Wittinsburg
Wittinsburg coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of Basel-CountryCanton of Basel-Country Basel-Country (BL)
District : Sissach
BFS no. : 2867i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 4443
Coordinates : 630440  /  252859 coordinates: 47 ° 25 '33 "  N , 7 ° 50' 31"  O ; CH1903:  630440  /  252859
Height : 572  m above sea level M.
Height range : 416–635 m above sea level M.
Area : 3.20  km²
Residents: 424 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 133 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.wittinsburg.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 Wittinsburg
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Wittinsburg ( Swiss German : Wytschbrg ) is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland .

geography

Wittinsburg is a farming village and lies on a hill between the Homburger - and Diegtertal .

Neighboring communities include (clockwise from the north) Diepflingen , Gelterkinden , Rümlingen , Buckten , Känerkinden , Diegten and Tenniken .

coat of arms

Wittinsburg's coat of arms was officially confirmed by the local council in 1944. It is divided into two halves by a vertical line. The left half is black a golden ear of corn, on the right half, which is golden, a black ear of corn is shown. The coat of arms symbolizes the agriculture prevailing on the Tafeljura plateau.

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. 403-405.

Web links

Commons : Wittinsburg  - 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 .