 The right to appoint Arlesheim's pastor was held by the Bishop of Basel until 1678, after which it went to the council of Basel's Cathedral.At the beginning of the 17thcentury the parish of Arlesheim was briefly united briefly with the parish of Reinach (in Basel-Country) into a single parish.After the short-lived Rauracian Republic (1792–93), the village was under French rule from 1793 to 1814.