Giebenach

Giebenach is a municipality in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.HistoryGiebenach is first mentioned in 1246 as in villa Gibenacho.GeographyGiebenach has an area, of 1.34km2. Of this area, 0.77km2 or 57.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.24km2 or 17.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.33km2 or 24.6% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 14.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.5%. Out of the forested land, 16.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 44.8% is used for growing crops and 10.4% is pastures, while 2.2% is used for orchards or vine crops.The municipality is located in the Liestal district, at the confluence of the Violen and Arisdorfer streams to the south-east of Augst. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Giebenach.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Pentagram Argent.DemographicsGiebenach has a population of., 18.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 29.6%.Most of the population speaks German (738 or 92.5%), with Italian language being second most common (18 or 2.3%) and French being third (10 or 1.3%).