Lampenberg

Coat of arms

Lampenberg

Location of Lampenberg

Coordinates: 47°26′N 7°46′E / 47.433°N 7.767°ECoordinates: 47°26′N 7°46′E / 47.433°N 7.767°E

Country

Area

• Total

3.99 km² (1.54 sq mi)

Elevation

522 m (1,713 ft)

Population (Mar 2016)

• Total

497

• Density

120/km² (320/sq mi)

Postal code

4432

SFOS number

2887

Surrounded by

Bubendorf, Hölstein, Niederdorf

Website

http://www.lampenberg.ch
SFSO statistics

Lampenberg is a municipality in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

Lampenberg is first mentioned in 1226 as Lampenberc.

Lampenberg has an area, as of 2009^[update], of 3.99 square kilometers (1.54 sq mi). Of this area, 2.18 km² (0.84 sq mi) or 54.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.56 km² (0.60 sq mi) or 39.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.29 km² (0.11 sq mi) 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..

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, an Arrowpoint Argent.

Lampenberg has a population (as of March 2016^[update]) of 497. As of 2008^[update], 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 (as of 2000^[update]) speaks German (427 or 96.8%), with French being second most common (4 or 0.9%) and Turkish being third (3 or 0.7%).

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