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Aesch (sometimes written as Aesch BL in order to distinguish it from other "Aesches"; Swiss German: Ääsch) is a village (though it is statistically a town) and a municipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland. Almost all of its area is located on the left, western bank of the Birs and is a suburb of Basel.
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Canton of 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.
The International School of Basel Region AG (known as ISB) is a not-for-profit, self-supporting company, acknowledged as a private school by the local authority Basel-Landschaft, registered under Swiss law and abiding by all local authority requirements. The purpose of the ISBR AG is the operation of an English-speaking private day school for ...
Between Soyhières and Liesberg, it leaves the French-speaking part of Switzerland, enters the canton of Basel-Landschaft and receives the Lützel from the left. In Laufen it forms a waterfall, which was the source of power and of the name of the city. At the gorge of Angenstein, the river runs into the Birseck, the lowland by Aesch.
Basel-Landschaft Appenzell: Appenzell Innerrhoden Aranno: Ticino Arbaz: Valais Arbedo-Castione: Ticino Arboldswil: Basel-Landschaft Arbon: Thurgau Arch: Bern Ardon: Valais Arisdorf: Basel-Landschaft Aristau: Aargau Arlesheim: Basel-Landschaft Arnex-sur-Nyon: Vaud Arnex-sur-Orbe: Vaud Arni: Aargau Arni: Bern Arogno: Ticino Arosa: Graubünden ...
Carl Roth: Die Burgen und Schlösser der Kantone Basel-Stadt und Basel-Landschaft, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1932; Josef Baumann: Die Blarer von Wartensee und das Blarer-Schloss zu Aesch, Baselbieter Heimatbuch, Liestal, Jg. 8(1959), S. 72-91
Werner Meyer noted that the castle was perhaps never quite finished while Carl Roth believed that the castle was damaged during the Basel earthquake of 1356 and was not repaired. In any case, in the 14th century, the remains were given as a bishop's fief to the counts of Thierstein-Pfeffingen. This fief was not so much about the ruins, which ...