 Allschwil was one of the seven so-called free villages ("Vagantes extra civitate Basiliensem") and was therefore under the parish of St. John's Chapel at Basel's cathedral for baptism and high church festivals.In the wake of the German Peasants' War Allschwil, together with Reinach, Therwil, Oberwil and Ettingen, joined Basel in 1525 with a Burgrecht agreement.This agreement was dissolved in 1585 in the Baden Agreement.