Hagenbuch

Geschichte

Hagenbuch is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.HistoryHagenbuch is first mentioned in 856 as Haganbuah and at the same time the neighboring hamlet of Schneitberg was known as Sneita. Until the 19th Century it was known as Hagenbuch-Schneit.GeographyHagenbuch has an area of 8.2km2. Of this area, 61.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 28.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 9.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.4%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 5.8% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (3.9%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.4% of the area. 3.5% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.The municipality is located on the border with the Canton of Thurgau. It consists of the village of Hagenbuch and the hamlets of Hagenstall, Egghof, Schneitberg, Kappel, Ober-, Mittel- and Unterschneit.DemographicsHagenbuch has a population of., 7.9% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 51.2% male and 48.8% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 4.3%. Most of the population speaks German (94.2%), with Italian being second most common ( 1.0%) and Albanian being third ( 1.0%).In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 59.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (11.6%), the CSP (7.6%) and the FDP (6.2%).