Lindau, Switzerland
Lindau is a municipality in the district of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
History
Lindau is first mentioned in 774 as Lintauvia.[1]
Geography
Lindau has an area of Script error: No such module "convert".. Of this area, 47.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 34% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 18.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).[2] In 1996[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". housing and buildings made up 9% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (9.1%).[3] Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.2% of the area. since 2007[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 13.7% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.[3]
The municipality if located in the western portion of the lower Kempt valley. It includes the villages of Lindau, Tagelswangen, Winterberg and Grafstal.
Demographics
Lindau 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"., 18.3% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. 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% male and 49% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 33%. Most of the population (since 2000[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) speaks German (85.6%), with Italian being second most common ( 3.7%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 3.0%).
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 40% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (14.5%), the FDP (11.7%) and the CSP (11.1%).
The age distribution of the population (since 2000[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 26.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 63.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 9.4%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Lindau about 76.7% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). There are 1545 households in Lindau.[3]
Lindau has an unemployment rate of 2.39%. since 2005[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., there were 101 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 29 businesses involved in this sector. 791 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 51 businesses in this sector. 1044 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 136 businesses in this sector.[2] since 2007[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 47.1% of the working population were employed full-time, and 52.9% were employed part-time.[3]
since 2008[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". there were 1240 Catholics and 2159 Protestants in Lindau. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the census[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., 50.4% were some type of Protestant, with 45.9% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 4.4% belonging to other Protestant churches. 25.3% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 11.2% belonged to another religion (not listed), 2.9% did not give a religion, and 9.7% were atheist or agnostic.[3]
The historical population is given in the following table:[1]
| year | population |
|---|---|
| 1467 | c. 125 |
| 1634 | 281 |
| 1792 | 900 |
| 1850 | 1,051 |
| 1900 | 1,627 |
| 1950 | 1,833 |
| 2000 | 4,072 |
Transport
The municipality of Lindau is served by Kemptthal railway station, which is on the Zurich to Winterthur main line and is served by Zurich S-Bahn service S7.
References
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- ↑ a b Swiss Federal Statistical Office Template:Webarchive accessed 11-Aug-2009
- ↑ a b c d e Statistics Zurich Template:In lang accessed 4 August 2009
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