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Hölstein
Summary
Hölstein is a municipality in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
Hölstein is first mentioned around 1101-03 as Hulestein.
Hölstein has an area, , of . Of this area, or 43.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 39.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 14.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.8% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 7.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.6%. Out of the forested land, 38.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 17.7% is used for growing crops and 22.7% is pastures, while 2.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located in the Waldenburg district. It consists of the village of Hölstein, the settlements of Gründen and Holdenweid and 15 individual farm houses.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, an Eagle displayed Argent fesswise, langued, beaked and membered Or.
Hölstein has a population () of . , 14.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 13.5%.
Most of the population () speaks German (1,889 or 91.2%), with Italian language being second most common (45 or 2.2%) and Albanian being third (42 or 2.0%). There are 14 people who speak French.
the gender distribution of the population was 50.7% male and 49.3% female. The population was made up of 1,976 Swiss citizens (84.2% of the population), and 372 non-Swiss residents (15.8%) Of the population in the municipality 487 or about 23.5% were born in Hölstein and lived there in 2000. There were 598 or 28.9% who were born in the same canton, while 592 or 28.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 340 or 16.4% were born outside of Switzerland.
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