Arlesheim (canton Basel-Landschaft) reads like a Swiss history book. The medieval castles of Birseck and Reichenstein are located on the hilltops. They are a symbol of the town’s strategic importance. The cathedral in a village of a few hundred inhabitants in 1678 resulted from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political and religious quarrels. The bishop and … Read more » “The spiritual centers in Arlesheim and Dornach”
The world’s most international and inter-cantonal tramway is number 10, which runs from Dornach (canton of Solothurn) via villages in canton Basel-Landschaft (a.o. Arlesheim, Binningen and Bottmingen), the city of Basel (canton of Basel-Stadt) and the village of Leymen in Alsace (France) back to Rodersdorf (again canton of Solothurn). The course of this tramway of … Read more » “Saint John Nepomuk and tramway 10 of Basel”
The Celts and Romans left their traces throughout the later village of Rodersdorf (Canton Solothurn). The walls and foundations of Roman buildings, fragments of wall paintings, the remains of a floor heating system, a smithy and a water mill are a few of the archaeological finds. Almost nothing else is known until the twelfth century … Read more » “The Language Frontier Between Rodersdorf and Biederthal”
