Laufen

Laufen is a municipality and the capital of the district of Laufen within the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Laufen is a main train station for the surrounding region, connecting it to Basel. Between 58 BC and 470 AD, Laufen changed into part of the Roman Empire; after the empire collapsed it become part of the Alemanish area for several many years. During the early sixth century, the complete valley got here into the ownership of France, and from 853 till 1033 it become part of the Burgundian Kingdom. In 999 Rudolf III, the childless king of Burgundy donated maximum of the Laufen valley territory to the Archbishopric of Basel.

Laufen is first noted in 1141 as Loufen. For a time, it turned into recognized via its French call Laufon. In 1295 Peter Reich von Reichenstein based the small town of Laufen. The Christian-Catholic Church of St. Katharina is indexed as a Swiss heritage web page of national significance. The complete antique city of Laufen in a part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites. The Neolithic cist gravesite located in the municipality changed into indexed as a Swiss history site of country wide importance in 1995, but is now not covered within the list.