Läufelfingen

Geschichte

Läufelfingen is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.HistoryLäufelfingen is first mentioned in 1226 as Leinvolvingen. In 1481 it was mentioned as Leiffeldingen.GeographyLäufelfingen has an area, of 8.15km2. Of this area, 4km2 or 49.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.36km2 or 41.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.79km2 or 9.7% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.2%. Out of the forested land, 39.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 14.5% is used for growing crops and 32.5% is pastures, while 2.1% is used for orchards or vine crops.The municipality is located in the Sissach district, along the Homburger stream and along the road over the pass at Unteren Hauenstein. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Läufelfingen.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, two Eagles displayed Sable, langued, beaked and membered Gules.DemographicsLäufelfingen has a population of., 9.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 0.5%.Most of the population speaks German (1,167 or 93.3%), with Albanian being second most common (26 or 2.1%) and Italian language being third (20 or 1.6%). There are 6 people who speak French.