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Chienbäse is a Fasnacht tradition of Liestal, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland. On the Sunday night after Ash Wednesday , the night before the Morgestraich in Basel city, a procession begins of people carrying burning bundles of pinewood chips (called Chienbäse , the Alemannic German for "pinewood besom") through the medieval town center along ...
Liestal is home to 2 libraries. These libraries include; the Kantonsbibliothek Baselland and the Pädagogische Hochschule in Liestal. There was a combined total (as of 2008 [update] ) of 249,271 books or other media in the libraries, and in the same year a total of 757,718 items were loaned out.
Chienbäse procession with burning wood bundles and fire carts in Liestal, Switzerland (2013) Processions are found in almost every form of religious worship, such as Holy Week processions. Some biblical examples were the processions with the Ark of Covenant and the procession of Jesus on a donkey into Jerusalem.
There were 11,599 or 21.3% who were born in the same canton, while 14,741 or 27.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 12,944 or 23.8% were born outside of Switzerland. [ 4 ] In 2008 [update] there were 363 live births to Swiss citizens and 159 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 355 deaths of Swiss citizens ...
In Switzerland, the postal codes have four digits. As with the postcode system introduced in Germany in 1993, a municipality can receive several postcodes. A locality (settlement) having its own postal code does not mean that it is an independent political municipality, but only that it is an official locality.
Switzerland, [d] officially the Swiss Confederation, [e] is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. [f] [13] It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
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Basel-Landschaft or Basel-Country, informally known as Baselland or Baselbiet (/ ˌ b ɑː z ə l ˈ l æ n d ʃ ɑː f t /; German: Kanton Basel-Landschaft [ˈkantɔn ˌbaːzl̩ ˈlantʃaft] ⓘ; Romansh: Chantun Basilea-Champagna; French: Canton de Bâle-Campagne [bɑl.kɑ̃.paɲ]; Italian: Canton Basilea Campagna), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.