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Röschenz

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Röschenz is a municipality in Laufen District in the Canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. Röschenz is first mentioned in 1290 as de Roetschentzo. Until 1723 it was known as Reuschansse. Röschenz has an area, , of . Of this area, or 32.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 60.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.1% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land. Of the built-up area, housing and buildings made up 4.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.0%. Out of the forested land, 58.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 18.7% is used for growing crops and 12.8% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Laufen district, in the Lützel valley on a terrasse in the Blauen hills. It consists of the linear village of Röschenz. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale, Sable a Crozier Argent, Argent between two Roses Gules, centered Or and lapped Vert a Bar wavy Azure. Röschenz has a population () of . , 7.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 15.6%. Most of the population () speaks German (1,526 or 94.9%), with French being second most common (17 or 1.1%) and Italian being third (14 or 0.9%). the gender distribution of the population was 50.4% male and 49.6% female. The population was made up of 1,686 Swiss citizens (92.2% of the population), and 142 non-Swiss residents (7.8%) Of the population in the municipality 625 or about 38.9% were born in Röschenz and lived there in 2000. There were 393 or 24.4% who were born in the same canton, while 396 or 24.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 150 or 9.3% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 17 live births to Swiss citizens and were 13 deaths of Swiss citizens.
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