Buus

Geschichte

Buus is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.HistoryBuus is first mentioned in 1273 as Bus.GeographyBuus has an area, of 8.85km2. Of this area, 5.71km2 or 64.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.52km2 or 28.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.64km2 or 7.2% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.5%. Out of the forested land, 26.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 25.5% is used for growing crops and 30.8% is pastures, while 8.1% is used for orchards or vine crops.The municipality is located in the Sissach district, in a depression on the north foot of Farnsberg mountain. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Buus.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Vine Vert fructed Azure entwined around a Rod Gules attached by two rings Or issuant from a Base Sable.DemographicsBuus has a population of., 7.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 9.5%.Most of the population speaks German (876 or 96.4%), with Albanian being second most common (15 or 1.7%) and English being third (4 or 0.4%). There is 1 person who speaksFrench while no one speaks Romansh.