Muttenz

Muttenz is a municipality with a population of about 17,000 within the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. It is placed in the district of Arlesheim and subsequent to the town of Basle. Under the Roman Empire a hamlet known as Montetum existed, which the Alamanni invaders referred to as Mittenza because the 3rd century CE. At the start of the ninth century CE the settlement got here into the ownership of the bishopric of Strasbourg. In the following centuries numerous noble families were invested with the fief.Muttenz is first noted around 1225-26 as Muttence.

In 1277 it become noted as Muttenza. In 1306 the village became the property of the Munch of Munchenstein, who fortified the village church of St. Arbogast with a rampart at the beginning of the 15th century, after their fortresses at the nearby Wartenberg had been partially destroyed within the devastating Basle earthquake of 1356. Having fallen on hard times the Münch offered the village and the Wartenberg to the town of Basel in 1517. Following the Protestant Reformation in Basel by way of Johannes Oecolampadius the church of Muttenz was reformed in 1529. In 1628 one-7th of the village populace, 112 humans, died of the plague.