Luthern
Template:Infobox Swiss town Luthern is a municipality in the district of Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
History
Luthern is first mentioned in 1275 as Lutrun.[1]
Geography
Luthern 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, 47.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 47.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 3.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).[2] In the 1997 land survey[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., 47.49% of the total land area was forested. Of the agricultural land, 46.83% is used for farming or pastures, while 1.01% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the settled areas, 1.56% is covered with buildings, 0.16% is industrial, 0.4% is classed as special developments, 0.03% is parks or greenbelts and 1.4% is transportation infrastructure. Of the unproductive areas, 0.61% is unproductive flowing water (rivers) and 0.53% is other unproductive land.[3]
The municipality is located in the upper Luthern valley, in the northern Napfgebiet. It consists of the village of Luthern and the hamlets of Luthernbad, Hofstatt and Flühlen as well as scattered farm houses.
Demographics
Luthern 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"., 29 or about 2.1% are not Swiss citizens.[4] Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -13.7%. Most of the population (since 2000[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) speaks German (98.5%), with Portuguese being second most common ( 0.7%) and Albanian being third ( 0.6%).
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the CVP which received 65.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (17.7%), the FDP (12.8%) and the Green Party (2.2%).
The age distribution, since 2008[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., in Luthern is; 375 people or 27.4% of the population is 0–19 years old. 332 people or 24.3% are 20–39 years old, and 417 people or 30.5% are 40–64 years old. The senior population distribution is 170 people or 12.4% are 65–79 years old, 66 or 4.8% are 80–89 years old and 9 people or 0.7% of the population are 90+ years old.[3]
The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Luthern about 51.4% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).
since 2000[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". there are 438 households, of which 84 households (or about 19.2%) contain only a single individual. 106 or about 24.2% are large households, with at least five members.[3] since 2000[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". there were 303 inhabited buildings in the municipality, of which 128 were built only as housing, and 175 were mixed use buildings. There were 84 single family homes, 23 double family homes, and 21 multi-family homes in the municipality. Most homes were either two (77) or three (29) story structures. There were only 10 single story buildings and 12 four or more story buildings.[3]
Luthern has an unemployment rate of 0.4%. since 2005[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., there were 358 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 140 businesses involved in this sector. 134 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 22 businesses in this sector. 191 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 28 businesses in this sector.[2] since 2000[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 48.4% of the population of the municipality were employed in some capacity. At the same time, females made up 37.5% of the workforce.
In the 2000 census[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". the religious membership of Luthern was; 1,263 (83.1%) were Roman Catholic, and 173 (11.4%) were Protestant, with an additional 8 (0.53%) that were of some other Christian faith. There are 5 individuals (0.33% of the population) who are Muslim. Of the rest; there were 13 (0.86%) who do not belong to any organized religion, 58 (3.82%) who did not answer the question.[3]
The historical population is given in the following table:[1]
| year | population |
|---|---|
| about 1695 | ca. 600 |
| 1798 | 1,624 |
| 1850 | 2,002 |
| 1900 | 1,702 |
| 1950 | 1,977 |
| 2000 | 1,520 |
Weather
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Gallery
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Former school building
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Blick from Napf
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Chapel Heubärg
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Pilgrimage Church Maria-Heilbronn
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Pilgrimage Chapel (Badbrünnlikapelle)
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Pilgrimage Chapel (Badbrünnlikapelle)
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Fountain Badbrünnli
References
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- ↑ a b Swiss Federal Statistical Office Template:Webarchive accessed 25-Aug-2009
- ↑ a b c d e LUSTAT Lucerne Cantonal Statistics Template:Webarchive Template:In lang accessed 12 August 2009
- ↑ LUSTAT-Canton Lucerne Statistical Office Template:Webarchive Template:In lang accessed 25 August 2009
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External links
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