Ettingen

Geschichte

Ettingen is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.HistoryEttingen is first mentioned in 1268 as Ettingen.GeographyEttingen has an area, of 6.35km2. Of this area, 2.12km2 or 33.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.17km2 or 49.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.09km2 or 17.2% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 10.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.5%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 18.0% is used for growing crops and 7.9% is pastures, while 7.6% is used for orchards or vine crops.The municipality is located in the Arlesheim district, in the southern Leimen valley. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Ettingen which has become a commuter town for the agglomeration of Basel.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Quartered, Azure, Argent a Cross Gules, Argent and Azure.DemographicsEttingen has a population of., 12.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 1.8%.Most of the population speaks German (4,324 or 90.8%), with Italian language being second most common (111 or 2.3%) and English being third (84 or 1.8%). There are 60 people who speak French and 2 people who speak Romansh.