Lalden

Geschichte

Lalden is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.HistoryLalden is first mentioned in 1218 as Laudona. In 1540 it was mentioned as Lalden.GeographyLalden has an area, of 1.3km2. Of this area, 40.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 16.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 26.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and 16.7% is unproductive land.The municipality is located in the Visp district, on the northern edge of the Rhone valley near Visp. It consists of the old village surrounded by new construction.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Latin Cross Argent issuant from Coupeaux Vert between three Mullets Or.DemographicsLalden has a population of., 7.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of -4%. It has changed at a rate of -2.3% due to migration and at a rate of 0% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks German (626 or 96.2%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (12 or 1.8%) and Serbo-Croatian is the third (10 or 1.5%). There is 1 person who speaks French., the population was 50.5% male and 49.5% female. The population was made up of 306 Swiss men (46.0% of the population) and 30 (4.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 307 Swiss women (46.2%) and 22 (3.3%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 418 or about 64.2% were born in Lalden and lived there in 2000. There were 168 or 25.8% who were born in the same canton, while 17 or 2.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 38 or 5.8% were born outside of Switzerland.