Buckten

Geschichte

Buckten is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.HistoryBuckten is first mentioned in 1266 as Butuchon.GeographyBuckten has an area, of 1.99km2. Of this area, 0.99km2 or 49.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.65km2 or 32.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.34km2 or 17.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02km2 or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.5% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 9.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.5%. Out of the forested land, 31.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.1% is used for growing crops and 18.6% is pastures, while 3.0% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The municipality is located in the Sissach district, in the upper Homburger on the road to pass over the Unteren Hauenstein.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess, Sable a Posthorn Or, and Or, a Wheel Sable.DemographicsBuckten has a population of., 11.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 0.6%.Most of the population speaks German (592 or 91.9%), with Italian language being second most common (12 or 1.9%) and Albanian being third (11 or 1.7%). There are 3 people who speak French and people who speak Romansh.