Lampenberg is a

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in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of

Basel-Country Canton of Basel-Landschaft or Basel-Country, informally known as Baselland or Baselbiet (; ; ; ; ), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of five districts and its capital city is Liestal. It is traditional ...

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History

Lampenberg is first mentioned in 1226 as ''Lampenberc''.

Geography

Lampenberg has an area, , of . Of this area, or 54.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 39.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.3% 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 4.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 32.1% is used for growing crops and 16.0% is pastures, while 6.5% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the Waldenburg district, in a depression between the Vorderen Frenke and Hinteren Frenke valleys gelegene Siedlung district,. It consists of the village of Lampenberg and the

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of Bez. Waldenburg, in einer Mulde zwischen den Tälern der Vorderen und Hinteren Frenke gelegene Siedlung..

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Gules, an Arrowpoint Argent.''

Demographics

Lampenberg has a population () of . , 4.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Superweb database - Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008
accessed 19 June 2010 Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 10%.
accessed 10-March-2011 Most of the population () speaks

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(427 or 96.8%), with French being second most common (4 or 0.9%) and Turkish being third (3 or 0.7%). , the gender distribution of the population was 48.7% male and 51.3% female. The population was made up of 486 Swiss citizens (95.9% of the population), and 21 non-Swiss residents (4.1%) Of the population in the municipality 168 or about 38.1% were born in Lampenberg and lived there in 2000. There were 129 or 29.3% who were born in the same canton, while 117 or 26.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 26 or 5.9% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 2 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 8 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 6 while the foreign population increased by 1. There were 2 Swiss men who immigrated back to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 1 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 3 people. This represents a

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of -0.4%. The age distribution, , in Lampenberg is; 39 children or 7.7% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 69 teenagers or 13.6% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 52 people or 10.3% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 57 people or 11.2% are between 30 and 39, 83 people or 16.4% are between 40 and 49, and 120 people or 23.7% are between 50 and 64. The senior population distribution is 67 people or 13.2% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 20 people or 3.9% who are over 80.Canton of Basel-Land Statistics
''Wohnbevölkerung nach Nationalität und Konfession per 30. September 2010'' accessed 16 February 2011 , there were 176 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 229 married individuals, 23 widows or widowers and 13 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 167 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 39 households that consist of only one person and 20 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 167 households that answered this question, 23.4% were households made up of just one person and 3 were adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 54 married couples without children, 61 married couples with children There were 7 single parents with a child or children. There were 3 households that were made up unrelated people. , there were 106 single family homes (or 69.3% of the total) out of a total of 153 inhabited buildings. There were 10 multi-family buildings (6.5%), along with 33 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (21.6%) and 4 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (2.6%). Of the single family homes 12 were built before 1919, while 12 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (43) were built between 1971 and 1980.Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 , there were 181 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 58. There were 5 single room apartments and 101 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 164 apartments (90.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 7 apartments (3.9%) were seasonally occupied and 10 apartments (5.5%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 5.9 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.48%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1080 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:480 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1680 from:start till:178 text:"178" bar:1834 from:start till:338 text:"338" bar:1850 from:start till:401 text:"401" bar:1860 from:start till:364 text:"364" bar:1870 from:start till:375 text:"375" bar:1880 from:start till:354 text:"354" bar:1888 from:start till:338 text:"338" bar:1900 from:start till:338 text:"338" bar:1910 from:start till:300 text:"300" bar:1920 from:start till:332 text:"332" bar:1930 from:start till:309 text:"309" bar:1941 from:start till:296 text:"296" bar:1950 from:start till:318 text:"318" bar:1960 from:start till:328 text:"328" bar:1970 from:start till:307 text:"307" bar:1980 from:start till:386 text:"386" bar:1990 from:start till:443 text:"443" bar:2000 from:start till:441 text:"441"

Heritage sites of national significance

The

Neolithic The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

flint Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely used to make stone tools and start ...

tool production site at Stälzer is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 42.58% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (15.44%), the SP (14.05%) and the

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(12.73%). In the federal election, a total of 238 votes were cast, and the

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was 61.5%.

Economy

, Lampenberg had an unemployment rate of 1.8%. , there were 42 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 15 businesses involved in this sector. 3 people were employed in the

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and there were 2 businesses in this sector. 24 people were employed in the

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, with 7 businesses in this sector. There were 221 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.7% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 41. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 23, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 3 of which 2 or (66.7%) were in manufacturing and 1 was in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 15. In the tertiary sector; 5 or 33.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 20.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 5 or 33.3% were in education.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Betriebszählung: Arbeitsstätten nach Gemeinde und NOGA 2008 (Abschnitte), Sektoren 1-3
accessed 28 January 2011 , there were 10 workers who commuted into the municipality and 170 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 17.0 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 21.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 52.9% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 71 or 16.1% were

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, while 313 or 71.0% belonged to the

Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member churches – 24 cantonal churches and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland. The P ...

. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church who belonged, and there were 21 individuals (or about 4.76% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who belonged to another church. 31 (or about 7.03% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

, and 3 individuals (or about 0.68% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Lampenberg, about 177 or (40.1%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 68 or (15.4%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 68 who completed tertiary schooling, 70.6% were Swiss men, 25.0% were Swiss women. , there were 48 students from Lampenberg who attended schools outside the municipality.

References

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