Schönenbuch

Geschichte

Schönenbuch is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.HistorySchönenbuch is first mentioned in 1315 as Schoenenbuoch. It became an independent municipality in 1816.GeographySchönenbuch has an area, of 1.36km2. Of this area, 0.89km2 or 65.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.02km2 or 1.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.42km2 or 30.9% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.9% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 19.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.4%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 47.1% is used for growing crops and 7.4% is pastures, while 11.0% is used for orchards or vine crops.The municipality is located in the Arlesheim district, on the edge of the Sundgau and bordered by France on three sides. It is at an elevation of 355m above sea level and is the second smallest municipality in the canton of Basel-Country. The village is enclosed on three sides by France (municipalities Neuwiller and Hagenthal-le-Bas). Only in the northeast does it have a connection to the town of Allschwil.It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Schönenbuch.