Arlesheim

Arlesheim is a statistic metropolis and a municipality within the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Its cathedral bankruptcy seat, bishop's residence and cathedral are listed as a history web site of country wide importance. The legitimate language of Arlesheim is the Swiss variety of Standard German, however the primary spoken language is the local version of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.

The cathedral has a Baroque organ constructed by using the German builder Johann Andreas Silbermann, based totally in Alsace, in 1761. The tool changed into restored with the aid of Metzler in 1959–1962, and is an example of the fusion of French and German organ constructing patterns. It has been utilized in numerous recordings, together with Lionel Rogg's recording of the whole organ works of J. S. Bach, for Harmonia Mundi France in 1970.

Arlesheim is first noted in 708. In 1239 it changed into stated as Arlisheim. The farm complex of Arlesheim changed into owned by means of Mont Sainte-Odile Monastery in Alsace beginning within the eighth century. It changed into bought in 1239 to the Bishop of Basel Luthold von Rotteln.