Liedertswil

Geschichte

Liedertswil is a municipality in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.HistoryLiedertswil is first mentioned in 1194 as Liedirwilre.GeographyLiedertswil has an area, of 1.94km2. Of this area, 0.72km2 or 37.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.13km2 or 58.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.1km2 or 5.2% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.1%. Out of the forested land, 53.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 2.1% is used for growing crops and 24.7% is pastures and 9.3% is used for alpine pastures.The municipality is located in the Waldenburg district, at the entrance to the Waldenburger valley into the Reigoldswiler valley.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, three Houses in pale Argent roofed Azure doored and windowed Sable.DemographicsLiedertswil has a population of., 2.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 5.9%.Most of the population speaks German (148 or 98.0%) with the rest speaking French, the gender distribution of the population was 52.5% male and 47.5% female. The population was made up of 151 Swiss citizens (93.2% of the population), and 11 non-Swiss residents (6.8%) Of the population in the municipality 35 or about 23.2% were born in Liedertswil and lived there in 2000. There were 38 or 25.2% who were born in the same canton, while 60 or 39.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 8 or 5.3% were born outside of Switzerland.