Luthern

Geschichte

Luthern is a municipality in the district of Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.HistoryLuthern is first mentioned in 1275 as Lutrun.GeographyLuthern has an area, of 37.9km2. 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)., 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.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.DemographicsLuthern has a population of., 29 or about 2.1% are not Swiss citizens. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -13.7%. Most of the population 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%).