Reinach, Basel-Landschaft

Reinach (Swiss German: Rynach) is a municipality in the district Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Reinach is first mentioned around 1168-76 as Rinacho. Reinach has an area, , of . Of this area, or 26.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 16.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 55.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.9% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.6% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 4.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 33.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 11.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.6% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.7%. Out of the forested land, 15.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 21.1% is used for growing crops and 2.9% is pastures, while 2.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Arlesheim district. The original village grew up along a small stream. At the beginning of the 21st century, it is part of the agglomeration of Basel at the crossing of the Basel-Aesch-Birstal and Dornach-Therwil-Leimental lines. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale, Argent a Crozier issuant Gules, Azure, three Bezants. The coat of arms symbolises St. Nicholas who is closely connected to the town. Reinach has a population () of . , 17.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 4.8%. Most of the population () speaks German (16,239 or 88.6%), with Italian language being second most common (556 or 3.0%) and French being third (307 or 1.7%). There are 11 people who speak Romansh. the gender distribution of the population was 48.3% male and 51.7% female. The population was made up of 15,424 Swiss citizens (82.0% of the population), and 3,377 non-Swiss residents (18.