Living in Gotthelf — Basel neighbourhood
The Gotthelf quarter is named after the Swiss writer Jeremias Gotthelf and emerged around 130 years ago as a planned middle-class quarter following the demolition of the city walls. It gained its present, uniform appearance mainly in the 1920s and 30s through architects Wilhelm Emil Baumgartner and Hans Hindermann, who alone realised over 300 of the city's characteristic "Baumgartnerhäuser" here. Curiously, on the street "Im langen Loh" you change canton with every step — one side belongs to Basel-Stadt, the other to Allschwil in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Statistically notable: Gotthelf has the highest proportion of women of any Basel quarter. It is considered an upmarket middle-class quarter: quiet, low-traffic avenues such as St. Gallerring, practically every house with its own front garden, plenty of green space — through traffic stays almost entirely on the boundary streets Allschwilerstrasse and Spalenring. Gotthelf lies on the western edge of the city, between Iselin to the north, Allschwil to the west, Bachletten to the south and Am Ring to the east. Despite its edge-of-city location, the city centre is easily reached.
| Population | 7'256 |
| To Basel SBB station (min) | 19 |
| To Marktplatz (min) | 18 |
| To Messeplatz (min) | 22 |
| Green space | 33% |
| Avg. age | 43.9 |
Quiet avenues, front gardens and little through traffic — with a street where you change canton just by crossing it. Gotthelf is the upmarket, green residential quarter on Basel's city edge.
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