Ennetbürgen

Geschichte

Ennetbürgen is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.HistoryEnnetbürgen 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.GeographyEnnetbürgen has an area, of 9.4km2. 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).The municipality is located between Lake Lucerne and the foot of the Bürgenberg mountain.DemographicsEnnetbürgen has a population of., 10.3% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 8%. Most of the population speaks German (94.2%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 1.2%) and Italian being third ( 0.9%). the gender distribution of the population was 51.4% male and 48.6% female.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.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%).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).