Rickenbach, Basel-Country

Rickenbach

Coat of arms

Rickenbach

Location of Rickenbach

Coordinates: 47°29′N 7°51′E / 47.483°N 7.850°ECoordinates: 47°29′N 7°51′E / 47.483°N 7.850°E

Country

Area

• Total

2.89 km² (1.12 sq mi)

Elevation

479 m (1,572 ft)

Population (Mar 2016)

• Total

593

• Density

210/km² (530/sq mi)

Postal code

4462

SFOS number

2857

Surrounded by

Böckten, Buus, Gelterkinden, Ormalingen, Sissach, Wintersingen

Website

www.rickenbach-bl.ch
SFSO statistics

Rickenbach is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

Rickenbach is first mentioned in 1274 as Richenbah.

Rickenbach has an area, as of 2009^[update], of 2.89 square kilometers (1.12 sq mi). Of this area, 1.62 km² (0.63 sq mi) or 56.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.95 km² (0.37 sq mi) or 32.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.31 km² (0.12 sq mi) or 10.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.01 km² (2.5 acres) or 0.3% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.1%. Out of the forested land, 31.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 8.7% is used for growing crops and 29.8% is pastures, while 17.6% is used for orchards or vine crops.

The municipality is located in the Sissach district, in a side valley off the Ergolz valley.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Gules and Azure, overall a Bar wavy Argent.

Rickenbach has a population (as of March 2016^[update]) of 593. As of 2008^[update], 8.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 8.6%.

Most of the population (as of 2000^[update]) speaks German (486 or 93.3%), with some type of Indo-Aryan languages being second most common (5 or 1%) and French being third (4 or 0.8%).

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