Grellingen

Grellingen

Grellingen is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel -Country in Switzerland.

Name

In the region around the Rhine knee at Basel, there are common place names ending in " -ingen ". These are attributed to the settlement by the Alamanni in the early Middle Ages. From Grellingen is told that a Alamannic clan leader, " Grello ", gave him the name. Documents can not be this but. Grellingen is first documented on 18 August 1274th Previously used village - nickname for the different villages. For Grellingen: " the Brääglede ".

Geography

Grellingen is in the lower Laufental and belongs since 1994 to the canton of Basel-Land and is located south of Basel, at the fuel rail route Basel- Delémont. Until the city of Basel is 15 kilometers. The district capital is located 9 kilometers west running.

The area of ​​the municipality is 331 hectares, of which 189 hectares of forest, 69 hectares of agricultural land, 64 hectares and 11 hectares of unproductive settlements.

History

The oldest finds are about 12,000 years old. Tools and battered bones of animals from the Ice Age were found in " Chaltbrunnental " and at the "Watch Rock", in the west of Grellingen. These caves and ledges in the " Chessiloch " offered the Stone Age hunters and gatherers protection from the weather.

On the " Schmälzeried " a small plateau north of the village center, as well as on the " Neutal ", the opposite slope, the presence of the Romans was documented. It should either be a "Roman villa".

The valley was then settled by the Alemanni. Then it came under Frankish rule and eventually moved to the Burgundian possession. Around the year 1000 Grellingen moved over due to a donation in the possession of the Prince Bishop of Basel, where it remained for the next 800 years.

1792 were the French under Napoleon Bonaparte one. 1793 successes of the connection to France. At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Prince-Bishopric of Basel was divided. The Birseck came to Basel, the Laufen and the Jura were the canton of Bern, in compensation for the lost of Vaud and Aargau, slammed.

To this decision is shrouded in a lot of rumors that are carried on to this day in the population. So the Laufen to have been attributed by mistake to the French-speaking Jura because I stood on the authoritative maps " Laufon " instead of " Running ". Another rumor has it that the gentlemen of Wessenberg, former lords of the castle were worried about Burg im Leimental, in Vienna that their headquarters in Laufen not fell to the old rival Basel.

The " Chessiloch " is famous for the so-called crest rocks. During the First World War, the two strategically important railway bridges over the Birs were guarded by the military. Eventually a soldier has begun to paint the emblem of his unit on the rocks. Over time, others have done the same to him, and so created a unique system, which is a military historical monument and popular recreation destination in the Basel area today.

Attractions

Policy

Politically, the community is supported by a seven-member committee, the council passed.

Coat of arms

The town coat of arms was created in 1911 by the Herald Türler. Officially adopted it was only at the municipal meeting of 4 June 1946 Red Baselstab ( crosier ) points to the Bishopric of Basel.; the left half of the shield contains the arms of the old ruling Pfeffingen with reversed colors.