Reinach (Basle-Countryside)

Reinach is a common Switzerland canton of Basle-Countryside, located in the District of Arlesheim.

History

Located on the side on Bruderholz in the valley of the Birse, the area of Reinach is colonized at least since the medium of the Stone Age, as the tombs and the tools discovered at the time of archaeological excavations prove it. Other relics dating from the Bronze Age as of the Roman time were also updated.

The first written mention of the village, under the name of Rinacho comes from Ludwig Garewart, Prince-bishop of the Diocèse of Basle between 1164 and 1176. In 1194 the village belongs convent of Beinwil.

The village is touched hard by the Earthquake of Basle of 1356 and mainly destroyed. In 1373, the village is receipt by évêché of Basle like refunding of a debt and passes under the seigniory of the family von Ramstein. Erdbebenkreuz in Reinach

Losque the Canton of Basle joined the Confederation in 1501, Reinach remains like territory of évêché. The common master key to the Protestant Reform in 1525, but returns to Catholicism in 1595, following the Counter-Reformation carried out by évèque the Jacques Christophe Blarer de Wartensee. At that time, Reinach is an important economic and commercial center, being used in particular as deposit of Sel and Fruit S for the Baillage S of Birseck and Pfeffingen.

The commune is invaded by the French troops in 1792 and is annexed to the department of the Mount-Terrible (of which it is one of the Chef-lieu X) until in 1800 where it belongs to the Département of Haut-Rhin. Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, it is attached to the canton of Basle before finally joining, in 1833, the canton of Basle-Countryside during its creation.

Still simple village of peasants at the beginning of the 20th century, Reinach will experience a significant development with the arrival, as of 1907 of the line of train of the foot of the Jura then, in the Années 1950, the highway. The common one forms da part today the agglomeration bâloise.

Monuments

At the top of the Bruderholz the monument Bruderholzdenkmal commemorative of the is battles homonymous which was held there. In the city even, a Protestant church built by the architect Ernst Gisel is.

Sources

Official site of the commune

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