Wittinsburg

Wittinsburg is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Wittinsburg has an area, , of . Of this area, or 59.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 31.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.1% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.0%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 41.7% is used for growing crops and 14.6% is pastures, while 3.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale Sable and Or, two corn ears counterchanged. Wittinsburg has a population () of . , 3.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 22.7%. Most of the population () speaks German (326 or 97.3%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common (5 or 1.5%) and French being third (1 or 0.3%). the gender distribution of the population was 49.8% male and 50.2% female. The population was made up of 399 Swiss citizens (95.9% of the population), and 17 non-Swiss residents (4.1%) Of the population in the municipality 142 or about 42.4% were born in Wittinsburg and lived there in 2000. There were 100 or 29.9% who were born in the same canton, while 73 or 21.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 14 or 4.2% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 4 live births to Swiss citizens and were 3 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 1 while the foreign population remained the same. There was 1 Swiss woman who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there was 1 non-Swiss man who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 5 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 1 people.