Reinach, Basel-Landschaft
Reinach (Swiss German: Rynach) is a municipality in the district Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
For other uses, see Reinach (disambiguation).
Reinach
Switzerland
7 km2 (3 sq mi)
303 m (994 ft)
19,216
2,700/km2 (7,100/sq mi)
2773
CH-BL
Aesch, Arlesheim, Basel (BS), Bottmingen, Dornach (SO), Münchenstein, Oberwil, Therwil
Ostfildern (Germany)
Geography[edit]
Reinach has an area, as of 2009, of 7 square kilometers (2.7 sq mi). Of this area, 1.84 km2 (0.71 sq mi) or 26.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.16 km2 (0.45 sq mi) or 16.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 3.87 km2 (1.49 sq mi) or 55.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.06 km2 (15 acres) or 0.9% is either rivers or lakes and 0.04 km2 (9.9 acres) or 0.6% is unproductive land.[4]
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 4.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 33.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 11.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.6% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.7%. Out of the forested land, 15.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 21.1% is used for growing crops and 2.9% is pastures, while 2.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.[4]
The municipality is located in the Arlesheim district. The original village grew up along a small stream. At the beginning of the 21st century, it is part of the agglomeration of Basel at the crossing of the Basel-Aesch-Birstal and Dornach-Therwil-Leimental lines.
Coat of arms[edit]
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale, Argent a Crozier issuant Gules, Azure, three Bezants.[5]
The coat of arms symbolises St. Nicholas who is closely connected to the town.
Politics[edit]
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 28.12% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (26.67%), the FDP (16.43%) and the CVP (13.8%). In the federal election, a total of 6,593 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 48.8%.[13]
Religion[edit]
From the 2000 census, 6,822 or 37.2% were Roman Catholic, while 6,114 or 33.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 184 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.00% of the population), there were 58 individuals (or about 0.32% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 494 individuals (or about 2.70% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 30 individuals (or about 0.16% of the population) who were Jewish, and 597 (or about 3.26% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 71 individuals who were Buddhist, 69 individuals who were Hindu and 15 individuals who belonged to another church. 3,321 (or about 18.12% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 548 individuals (or about 2.99% of the population) did not answer the question.[9]
Education[edit]
In Reinach about 8,100 or (44.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 2,908 or (15.9%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 2,908 who completed tertiary schooling, 60.7% were Swiss men, 24.7% were Swiss women, 9.0% were non-Swiss men and 5.6% were non-Swiss women.[9]
As of 2000, there were 531 students in Reinach who came from another municipality, while 648 residents attended schools outside the municipality.[15]
Reinach holds the International School of Basel, a school where most of the international students go to study, and it is situated on the Tram station Reinacherhof. The city has two of its three campuses : Reinach Campus,[16] and Fiechten Campus.[17]
There are four local primary schools: Fiechten, Surbaum, Aumatt, Weiermatt, Reinacherhof and parts of the Bachmatten campus. The only secondary school is the Bachmatten campus which is made up of two buildings.[18]
