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The New World is a district in Munich stone ( in the area Birseck ) ( Basel-Country ) in Switzerland.
Location
"New World" is the geographical name for the area that has arisen with the advent of industrial development on the uppermost part of the St. Alban- pond.
The Canal St. Alban- pond was artificially created by the Basel monastery of St. Alban in the 12th century. The St. Alban Pond is the first of the still preserved today commercial channels in Basel, dating back to the 12th century. In the years 1152 and 1154 mills and water mills in St. Albantal are first written records. Mentioned in writing of the pond itself only to 1279th However, it must be assumed that the pond was built at the same time with the mills. In the years 1624/25, the canal was upward current, extended by Brüglinger plane in the direction of Munich stone until the Birswasserfall. Here the water is diverted from the Birs.
The New World is the northernmost district of Munich stone, it borders to the west on the community of Muttenz and east to the Dreispitzareal. The Dreispitzareal is equally split between the municipalities of Basel and Munich stone.
To the north is bordered to the New World at St. Jakob an der Birs, a historic quarantine settlement ( with hospice ) in Basel. It was here in 1444, the Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs instead.
History
The hammer forged from 1660 is the oldest building on the canal and pond was built by Ludwig Krug. 1789, the hammer mill was converted into a textile factory. In 1822, taught Felix Sarasin ( 1771-1839 ), here are a cotton mill. The hammer mill was restored in 1970 Merianische Foundation through the BC and found in 1971 under monument protection.
As Ludwig August Sarasin ( 1804-31 ) took over the technical management of the cotton factory Sarasin & Heusler, he left in 1830 built the Villa Ehinger nearby. The Ehinger family sold the villa and the Ehinger Good in 1959 to the municipality of Munich stone, which it ceded in 1962 to the canton of Basel-Land. The villa was opened in 1973 after the completion of the restoration and renovation as a music school.
The kindergarten Ehinger, primary school New World, the Gymnasium Munich stone and the TSM - school center for children and youth with disabilities are also on the former Ehinger Good. The kindergarten Teichweg is embedded in a superstructure, between the park in the open, Rüttihardstrasse, Birs, St. Alban pond and the water House district. The kindergarten New World is near the entrance to the park in the countryside.
The rapidly expanding company Basler André Klein, which specialized in the production of the Basel Läckerli, it was too tight in the Klein-Basel, so that one finally settling down in 1910 in the New World, in the former cotton mill Sarasin & Heusler.
In 1920/21 the Cooperative Urban Water house was built in the neighborhood New World. Based on designs by Hans Benno Bernoulli plans by the architect Wilhelm Eduard Brodtbeck from Liestal were elaborated. But for financial reasons only a part of the settlement could be achieved.
And 1980 the Green 80, the 2nd Swiss exhibition for gardening and landscaping, rather than in the Brüglinger level. Approximately 3.5 million visitors found their way into the Brüglinger level. Although the actual terrain park called in the green, green is 80 has held as a term, and the tram stop in the New World was renamed the New World / Green 80. The park is in the open around the clock to the public. On today's park adjacent to the Botanical Garden is Brüglingen, who was a part of the green 80 and is maintained by the city of Basel. It includes an English garden, a collection of herbs and a rhododendron collection. To this end, the permanent exhibition coaches of the Historical Museum Basel is located there.