Riehen

Riehen is a municipality within the canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland. Together with the town of Basel and Bettingen, Riehen is one of three municipalities within the canton. Riehen hosts the Fondation Beyeler a privately owned art gallery in addition to a toy museum. Riehen became the first municipality in Switzerland to opt for a woman, Trudy Spath-Schweizer to political workplace, in 1958. Riehen has a population of 21,477. As of 2008, 18.3 in step with cent of the population are resident foreign nationals.

Over the last 10 year the population has modified at a price of -0.2 in keeping with cent. It has modified at a rate of 4.9 in keeping with cent because of migration and at a rate of -4.9 according to cent due to births and deaths.Most of the populace speaks German, with French being second most common and Italian being third. There are 29 those who communicate Romansh. Of the population within the municipality 4,549 or approximately 22.3 in line with cent have been born in Riehen and lived there in 2000.