Riehen 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.
Riehen hosts the Fondation Beyeler (a renowned privately-owned art gallery) as well as a toy museum.
Riehen was the first municipality in Switzerland to elect a woman, Trudy Späth-Schweizer to political office in 1958.
Riehen is first mentioned in 1157 as Rieheim.
Riehen is bound...
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Riehen 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.
Riehen hosts the Fondation Beyeler (a renowned privately-owned art gallery) as well as a toy museum.
Riehen was the first municipality in Switzerland to elect a woman, Trudy Späth-Schweizer to political office in 1958.
Riehen is first mentioned in 1157 as Rieheim.
Riehen is bounded by two different municipalities in Switzerland and Germany.
Riehen has an area, as of 2009, of 10.86 square kilometers (4.19 sq mi). Of this area, 2.78 km (1.07 sq mi) or 25.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.74 km (1.06 sq mi) or 25.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 5.19 km (2.00 sq mi) or 47.8% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.23 km (0.089 sq mi) or 2.1% is either rivers or lakes.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 28.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.7%. while parks, green belts and...
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