Flurlingen

Geschichte

Flurlingen is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.HistoryFlurlingen is first mentioned in 876 as Flurlingin.GeographyFlurlingen has an area of 2.4km2. Of this area, 18.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 55.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 22% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (4.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).The municipality if located on the Rhine river to the west of the Cholfirst elevation.SightsThe 96 m tall Cholfirst Radio Tower is built on Cholfirst at an elevation of 570m.DemographicsFlurlingen 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 12.3%. Most of the population speaks German (94.3%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 1.1%) and Albanian being third ( 1.0%).In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 29.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (19.9%), the FDP (18.8%) and the Green Party (13.2%).