Duggingen

Geschichte

Duggingen is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.HistoryDuggingen is first mentioned around 1330 as Tuggingen.GeographyDuggingen has an area, of 5.87km2. Of this area, 1.7km2 or 29.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.37km2 or 57.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.75km2 or 12.8% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.08km2 or 1.4% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.8%. Out of the forested land, 51.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 6.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 8.7% is used for growing crops and 17.2% is pastures, while 3.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The municipality is located in the Laufen district, on a terrace above the last ravine of the Birs valley. It consists of the linear village of Duggingen.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, a Bear salient Sable, armed, langued, and in his virility Gules, on Coupeaux of the third.DemographicsDuggingen has a population of., 14.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 29.6%.