Röschenz is a municipality in Laufen District in the Canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.
History
Röschenz is first mentioned in 1290 as de Roetschentzo. Until 1723 it was known as Reuschansse.
Geography
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.
Coat of arms
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.
Demographics
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. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 4 while the foreign population remained the same. There were 2 Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland and 3 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 7 non-Swiss men who immigrated from another country to Switzerland and 1 non-Swiss woman who emigrated from Switzerland to another country. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 19 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 4 people. his represents a population growth rate of 1.3%.
The age distribution, , in Röschenz is; 149 children or 8.2% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 262 teenagers or 14.3% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 202 people or 11.1% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 261 people or 14.3% are between 30 and 39, 324 people or 17.7% are between 40 and 49, and 382 people or 20.9% are between 50 and 64. The senior population distribution is 186 people or 10.2% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 62 people or 3.4% who are over 80.
, there were 665 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 801 married individuals, 76 widows or widowers and 66 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 633 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 153 households that consist of only one person and 49 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 645 households that answered this question, 23.7% were households made up of just one person and 6 were adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 201 married couples without children, 230 married couples with children. There were 32 single parents with a child or children. There were 11 households that were made up unrelated people and 12 households that were made some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 376 single family homes (or 74.5% of the total) out of a total of 505 inhabited buildings. There were 80 multi-family buildings (15.8%), along with 35 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (6.9%) and 14 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (2.8%). Of the single-family homes, 20 were built before 1919, while 93 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (65) were built between 1961 and 1970.