Lampenberg

Geschichte

Lampenberg is a municipality in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.HistoryLampenberg is first mentioned in 1226 as Lampenberc.GeographyLampenberg has an area, of 3.99km2. Of this area, 2.18km2 or 54.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.56km2 or 39.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.29km2 or 7.3% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 32.1% is used for growing crops and 16.0% is pastures, while 6.5% is used for orchards or vine crops.The municipality is located in the Waldenburg district, in a depression between the Vorderen Frenke and Hinteren Frenke valleys gelegene Siedlung district,. It consists of the village of Lampenberg and the hamlets of Bez. Waldenburg, in einer Mulde zwischen den Tälern der Vorderen und Hinteren Frenke gelegene Siedlung..Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, an Arrowpoint Argent.DemographicsLampenberg has a population of., 4.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 10%.Most of the population speaks German (427 or 96.8%), with French being second most common (4 or 0.9%) and Turkish being third (3 or 0.7%).