Rümlingen

Church and railway viaduct

Rümlingen [ rymlɪŋən ] ( in the local dialect: [ rymlikə ] ) is a municipality in the district Sissach the canton of Basel -Country in Switzerland. Not to be confused with the Bernese community Rümligen.

Geography

Rümlingen located in the Homburg, in the southeast of Canton Basel-Landschaft. The municipality is bordered to the north by Gelterkinden, to the east by Rünenberg, on the southeast by Häfelfingen, on the southwest by Buckten and to the west by Wittinsburg.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a golden background Ritter St. Georg with a red halo and in blue armor. With the red spear he stabs a black dragon.

St. George is the patron of the church and reminds with the gold and black colors of the former belonging to the Count's rule Homburg.

Name

The name Rümlingen which is first as Rumlikon ( 1358 ) and Rimlikon ( 1359 ) has sure made ​​up of a name like Romulus, Rumali or * Rumilo, the Ortsnamensuffix - ing ( for example, when the people of the Mentioned ') and the Old High German noun courtyard, yard, property ' together. The lokativisch used Dativus singularis * ikovun (< * - ing- hovun ) was the Nebentone to the neighboring Aargau as well as in the cantons of Zurich and Lucerne frequent form - KON ( i), which leads to the current dialectal pronunciation; the present case Rümlingen is probably emerged only recently.

History

In the early Middle Ages St. George's Chapel was built in Rümlingen, which was subordinated to the parish Sissach. As part of the rule Homburg, the village was in 1305 and 1400 Episcopal baslerisch. 1501 came to Rümlingen more important than an independent parish was connecting the villages Buckten, Häfelfingen, Känerkinden and Wittinsburg; dates from this time also today's late-Gothic parish church of St. George. The rectory was built in 1667. 1803 Rümlingen for District Sissach.

Traffic

The municipality has a station on the old Hauenstein line from Sissach to Läufelfingen. Rümlingen is connected by the main road to Sissach and the Lower Hauenstein to Olten.

Attractions

  • Reformed parish church with Glasgemalereien in the apse
  • Two-story Ossuary (1609 )
  • Font with the inscription 1514

Pictures

Church Interior

Meeting house

Homburger parlor

Zum Wilden Mann

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