Riehen
Municipality in Basel-Stadt, Switzerland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Riehen (Swiss German: Rieche) is a municipality in the canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland. Together with the city of Basel and Bettingen, Riehen is one of three municipalities in the canton.
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Riehen | |
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Coordinates: 47°35′N 7°38′E | |
Country | Switzerland |
Canton | Basel-Stadt |
District | n.a. |
Government | |
• Mayor | Hansjörg Wilde |
Area | |
• Total | 10.87 km2 (4.20 sq mi) |
Elevation | 278 m (912 ft) |
Population (31 December 2018)[2] | |
• Total | 21,340 |
• Density | 2,000/km2 (5,100/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (Central European Time) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time) |
Postal code(s) | 4125 |
SFOS number | 2703 |
ISO 3166 code | CH-BS |
Surrounded by | Basel, Bettingen, Birsfelden (BL), Grenzach-Wyhlen (DE-BW), Inzlingen (DE-BW), Lörrach (DE-BW), Weil am Rhein (DE-BW) |
Twin towns | Miercurea Ciuc(Romania), Mutten (Switzerland) |
Website | www SFSO statistics |
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Riehen hosts the Fondation Beyeler (a privately owned art gallery) as well as a toy museum and several parks.
Riehen was the first municipality in Switzerland to elect a woman, Trudy Späth-Schweizer to political office, in 1958.[3]
The mathematician Leonhard Euler and the tennis player Roger Federer lived in Riehen during their childhood years.