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Schönenbuch

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Schönenbuch

Total population

1,414

Elevation359 m
Land area1.35 km²
Coordinates47.54°, 7.50°

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City facts

Elevation
359 m
Area
1.35 km²
Official website
www.schoenenbuch.ch

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Overview

Schönenbuch is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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History & geography

History

Schönenbuch is first mentioned in 1315 as Schoenenbuoch. It became an independent municipality in 1816.

Geography

Schönenbuch has an area, , of . Of this area, or 65.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 1.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 30.9% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.9% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 19.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.4%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 47.1% is used for growing crops and 7.4% is pastures, while 11.0% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the Arlesheim district, on the edge of the Sundgau and bordered by France on three sides. It is at an elevation of above sea level and is the second smallest municipality in the canton of Basel-Country. The village is enclosed on three sides by France (municipalities Neuwiller and Hagenthal-le-Bas). Only in the northeast does it have a connection to the town of Allschwil. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Schönenbuch.

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Geography

Latitude
47.5373
Longitude
7.5020
Water area
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Geography & sun

Elevation
1,165 ft (355 m)
Avg solar (kWh/m²/day)
3.43
Annual solar (kWh/m²)
1,254

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

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Public attention

Wikipedia views (last 30 days)
50
Avg daily Wikipedia views
2
Attention level
Obscure

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Official Identifiers

BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office

BFS-Nr
2774
Population (Wikidata)
1,385
Wikidata
Q66508

Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771

Sources

  • • Wikipedia
  • • Wikidata
  • • Open-Elevation
  • • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
  • • Wikipedia Pageviews API
  • • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image
  • • BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771