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Duggingen
Duggingen is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. History Duggingen is first mentioned around 1330 as ''Tuggingen''. Geography Duggingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 29.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 57.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 12.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.4% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.6% and transportation made up 4.8%. Out of the forested land, 51.3% of the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angenstein Castle
Angenstein Castle (german: Schloss Angenstein or simply ''Angenstein'') is a castle in the municipality of Duggingen in the canton of Basel-Land in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The Jura Railway passes through a tunnel under Angenstein Castle on its route between Basel and Delémont. A Scoutsgroup and few other organisations and companies are named after the castle. See also * List of castles in Switzerland This list includes castles and fortresses in Switzerland. Entries list the name and location of the castle, fortress or ruins in each Canton in Switzerland. Aargau Appenzell Ausserrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden Basel-Land ... References External links * Cultural property of national significance in Basel-Landschaft Castles in Basel-Landschaft {{Switzerland-castle-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laufen (district)
Laufen District or Laufental District (french: District de Laufon) is one of the five districts of the largely German-speaking canton of Basel-Country, Switzerland. Its capital is the town of Laufen. Prior to 1994, it was a district of the canton of Bern, one of the seven historical districts of the Bernese Jura. In 1979, three neighbouring French-speaking districts of Bern seceded to form the new canton of Jura. Laufen was left as an exclave of Bern, wedged between Jura, Solothurn, Basel-Country, and France. In 1989, the populace voted to secede from Bern and join Basel-Country. After a transitional period of preparation, this was effected in 1994. It has a population of (as of ). Geography Laufen district has an area, , of . Of this area, or 36.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 52.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dornach
: ''Dornach is also a quarter of the French city of Mulhouse and the Scots name for Dornoch in the Scottish Highlands, and Dòrnach is the Gaelic name for Dornoch in the Scottish Highlands.'' Dornach (Swiss German: ''Dornech'') is a municipality in the district of Dorneck in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Dornach is first mentioned in 1223 as ''de Tornacho''. In 1307 it was mentioned as ''zu Dornach''. It has been settled since at least 1223 when a local lay priest was known as Johannes de Tornacho (thought to mean "from the estate of Turnus"). The site was the location of the decisive 1499 Battle of Dornach, which ended the Swabian War and effectively ensured the independence of the Old Swiss Confederacy from the Holy Roman Empire. The battle is memorialized in a 1949 relief wall. Today Dornach is famous for the Goetheanum and is home to the international headquarters of the Anthroposophical movement founded by Rudolf Steiner. Geography Dornach has an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grellingen
Grellingen is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. History Grellingen is first mentioned in 1274 as ''Grellingen''. Geography Grellingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 20.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 57.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 19.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 3.3% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 12.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.6%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.5% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.2%. Out of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Himmelried
Himmelried is a municipality in the district of Thierstein in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Himmelried is first mentioned in 1288 as ''in villa Heimenriet''. Geography Himmelried has an area, , of . Of this area, or 30.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 58.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.3%. Out of the forested land, 56.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small cluster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hochwald, Switzerland
Hochwald (Swiss German: ''Hobel'') is a municipality in the district of Dorneck in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. Hochwald means "high forest". History Hochwald is first mentioned around 1225-26 as ''in villa Honwalt''. Geography Hochwald has an area, , of . Of this area, or 45.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 44.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.9% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.0%. Out of the forested land, 43.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pfeffingen
Pfeffingen (Swiss German: ''Pfäffige'') is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. History Pfeffingen is first mentioned in 1156 as ''Fefingen''. Geography Pfeffingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 32.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 52.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 14.3% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 10.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.5%. Out of the forested land, 50.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 3.5% is us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seewen, Solothurn
Seewen (; Swiss German: ''Seebe'') is a municipality in the district of Dorneck in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. Baslerweiher is a pond above the village. History Seewen is first mentioned in 1147 as Sewin. The village's name means "at the lakes" in Old High German, a reference to the former Lake Seewen that was drained in the late 16th century. Seewen murder case During Pentecost 1976 one of the most important Swiss murder cases happened: near the weekend house "Waldeggli", five were killed brutally. The Seewen murder case counts as one of the biggest unsolved crimes in Swiss criminal history. Geography Seewen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 40.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 54.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aesch, Basel-Country
, neighboring_municipalities= Dornach (SO), Duggingen, Ettingen, Pfeffingen, Reinach, Therwil , twintowns = } Aesch (sometimes written as ''Aesch BL'' in order to distinguish it from other "Aesches"; Swiss German: ''Ääsch'') is a village (though it is statistically a town) and a municipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland. Almost all of its area is located on the left, western bank of the Birs and is a suburb of Basel. The Neolithic gravesite in the ''Gmeiniwald'' is listed as a heritage site of national significance. The official language of Aesch is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect. History Aesch is first mentioned in 1252 as ''Esch''. Prehistoric Aesch The area around Aesch was inhabited as far back as the Upper Paleolithic, as the graves at Gmeiniwald show. The Dolmen graves of the A-Schwörstadt type date from about the 3rd millennium BC. Gmeiniwald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basel-Country
Basel-Landschaft or Basel-Country informally known as Baselland or Baselbiet (; german: Kanton Basel-Landschaft ; rm, Chantun Basilea-Champagna; french: Canton de Bâle-Campagne; it, Canton Basilea Campagna), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of five districts and its capital city is Liestal. It is traditionally considered a " half-canton", the other half being Basel-Stadt, its urban counterpart. Basel-Landschaft is one of the northernmost cantons of Switzerland. It lies essentially south of the Rhine and north of the Jura Mountains. The canton shares borders with the canton of Basel-Stadt to the north, the canton of Aargau to the east, the canton of Solothurn to the south and the canton of Jura to the west. It shares international borders as well with France and Germany to the north. Together with Basel-Stadt, Basel-Landschaft was part of the canton of Basel, who joined the Old Swiss Confederacy in 1501. Political quarrels and armed c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inventory Of Swiss Heritage Sites
The Federal Inventory of Heritage Sites (ISOS) is part of a 1981 Ordinance of the Swiss Federal Council implementing the Federal Law on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage. Sites of national importance Types The types are based on the Ordinance and consolidated/translated as follows: *city: german: Stadt, Stadt/Flecken, it, città, french: ville *town: german: Kleinstadt, Kleinstadt (Flecken), it, borgo, borgo/cittadina, french: petite ville *urbanized village: german: verstädtertes Dorf, it, villaggio urbanizzato, french: village urbanisé, rm, vischnanca urbanisada *village: german: Dorf, it, villaggio, french: village, rm, vischnanca *hamlet: german: Weiler, it, frazione, frazione (casale), french: hameau, rm, aclaun *special case: german: Spezialfall, it, caso particolare, french: cas particulier, cas spécial, rm, cas spezial References * External links ISOS* {{DEFAULTSORT:Heritage Sites Heritage registers in Switzerland Switzerland geograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Population Growth
Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group. Actual global human population growth amounts to around 83 million annually, or 1.1% per year. The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to 7.9 billion in 2020. The UN projected population to keep growing, and estimates have put the total population at 8.6 billion by mid-2030, 9.8 billion by mid-2050 and 11.2 billion by 2100. However, some academics outside the UN have increasingly developed human population models that account for additional downward pressures on population growth; in such a scenario population would peak before 2100. World human population has been growing since the end of the Black Death, around the year 1350. A mix of technological advancement that improved agricultural productivity and sanitation and medical advancement that reduced mortality increased population growth. In some geographies, this has slowed through the process called the demographic tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
