Binningen

Binningen is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. It is nestled in a valley, on a plateau, and on hills overlooking the metropolis of Basel. Binningen is first noted in 1004 as Binningen. Various variations of the name Binningen seem in facts courting from between the 11^th and 14^th centuries, inclusive of "Binnengin" and "Biningin". The blazon of the municipal coat of palms is Argent a sable faded, charged with 3 six-rayed argent mullets said to be on a "silver backdrop with a black arrow and three silver stars".

The municipality banner is showed to be from the time period among 1292 and 1300. Back then, the banner became the family banner of the family "von Binningen" from Basel. Binningen's coat of hands has been barely changed through the centuries. The coat of palms, because it seems these days, dates again to 1921. Binningen has a population of 15,666. As of 2008, 20.4 in step with cent of the populace are resident foreign nationals. Over the ultimate 10 years the population has modified at a rate of 2.1 in line with cent.