Bottmingen is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Land in Switzerland. Bottmingen is first mentioned in 1246 as …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. Of this area, 0.77 km² or 25.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.55 km² or 18.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.61 km² or 53.8% is settled, 0.02 km² or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km² or 0.3% is unproductive land.