Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Bottmingen is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Land in Switzerland.Bottmingen is first mentioned in 1246 as Bothmingen. Bottmingen has an area, as of 2009, of 2.99 square kilometers (1.15 sq mi). Of this area, 0.77 km2 (0.30 sq mi) or 25.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.55 km2 (0.21 sq mi) or 18.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.61 km2 (0.62 sq mi) or 53.8% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02 km2 (4.9 acres) or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.3% is unproductive land.