Ennetbürgen
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Swiss town Ennetbürgen is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.
History
Ennetbürgen is first mentioned by 1190 as Burgin. In 1799, it became Enet-Bürgen and in 1836, Ennerbürgen. Since 1850, the official name has been Ennetbürgen.[1]
Geography
Ennetbürgen has an area, since 2006[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., of Script error: No such module "convert".. Of this area, 51.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 33.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 14.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).[2]
The municipality is located between Lake Lucerne and the foot of the Bürgenberg mountain.
Demographics
Ennetbürgen has a population (as of Template:Swiss populations date) of Template:Swiss populations.Template:Swiss populations ref since 2007[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., 10.3% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.[3] Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 8%. Most of the population (since 2000[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) speaks German (94.2%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 1.2%) and Italian being third ( 0.9%).[2] since 2008[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., the gender distribution of the population was 51.4% male and 48.6% female.
since 2000[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., there are 1,583 households, of which 994 households (or about 62.8%) contain only one or two individuals. 131 or about 8.3% are large households, with at least five members.[4]
In the 2007 federal election, the most popular party was the FDP which received 88.2% of the vote. Most of the rest of votes went to local small right-wing parties (9.8%).[2]
The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Ennetbürgen, about 75% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).[2]
Ennetbürgen has an unemployment rate of 1.12%. since 2005[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., there were 122 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 52 businesses involved in this sector. 318 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 43 businesses in this sector. 718 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 123 businesses in this sector.[2]
The historical population is given in the following table:[1]
| year | population |
|---|---|
| 1850 | 880 |
| 1870 | 972 |
| 1880 | 898 |
| 1900 | 923 |
| 1950 | 1,446 |
| 1960 | 1,917 |
| 1970 | 2,350 |
| 1980 | 2,716 |
| 1990 | 3,529 |
| 2000 | 3,976 |
| 2005 | 4,198 |
Sights
The main sights of Ennetbürgen are: the chapel St. Jost, and the clergy house St. Jost.
References
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