Waldenburg (Bâle-Campagne)

Geschichte

Waldenburg is a municipality in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland, and the capital of the district of the same name.GeographyWaldenburg has an area, of 8.3km2. Of this area, 2.61km2 or 31.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 5.18km2 or 62.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.48km2 or 5.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.01km2 or 0.1% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.6%. Out of the forested land, 60.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.1% is used for growing crops and 16.4% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops and 13.6% is used for alpine pastures.Coat of armsThe municipal coat of arms was introduced in 1926; it is that of the counts of Frohburg, who owned the village at the time of its first mention (1244); its blazon is Or, an Eagle displayed Vair, langued, beaked and membered Gules.DemographicsWaldenburg has a population of., 27.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of -9.8%.Most of the population speaks German (1,067 or 80.3%), with Albanian being second most common (104 or 7.8%) and Italian being third (56 or 4.2%). There are 5 people who speak French and 1 person who speaks Romansh.