Thürnen

Coat of arms

Thürnen

Location of Thürnen

Coordinates: 47°27′N 7°50′E / 47.450°N 7.833°ECoordinates: 47°27′N 7°50′E / 47.450°N 7.833°E

Country

Area

• Total

2.25 km² (0.87 sq mi)

Elevation

391 m (1,283 ft)

Population (Mar 2016)

• Total

1,409

• Density

630/km² (1,600/sq mi)

Postal code

4441

SFOS number

2864

Surrounded by

Böckten, Diepflingen, Gelterkinden, Sissach, Tenniken, Wittinsburg, Zunzgen

Website

www.thuernen.ch
SFSO statistics

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

Thürnen has an area, as of 2009^[update], of 2.25 square kilometers (0.87 sq mi). Of this area, 1.28 km² (0.49 sq mi) or 56.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.57 km² (0.22 sq mi) or 25.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.42 km² (0.16 sq mi) or 18.7% is settled (buildings or roads).

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 11.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.3%. Out of the forested land, 22.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 16.4% is used for growing crops and 28.0% is pastures, while 12.4% is used for orchards or vine crops.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, a two-arched towered Bridge Sable and Coupeaux Vert. The design was created in 1944. The castle in the coat of arms came from an oral tradition that held that the name Thürnen meant "at the towers". The colors come from the Homburg region, which once contained the municipality.

Thürnen has a population (as of March 2016^[update]) of 1,409. As of 2008^[update], 18.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 18.7%.

Most of the population (as of 2000^[update]) speaks German (1,041 or 89.2%), with Italian language being second most common (56 or 4.8%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (26 or 2.2%). There are 15 people who speak French.

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