Menzingen

Geschichte

Menzingen is a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland.HistoryMenzingen is first mentioned around 1217-22 as Meincingin.The traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X, which is said to have broken with the Vatican over "doctrinal difficulties" with the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, is headquartered in Menzingen.GeographyMenzingen has an area, of 27.5km2. Of this area, 62.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 28.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 7.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.5%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).The municipality is located on a moraine plateau between the Lorze and Sihl rivers at an elevation of about 800m. In 1848 the municipality of Neuheim separated from Menzingen. It consists of the village of Menzingen and a number of hamlets and individual farm houses.It includes Edlibach and Finstersee and, until the late 1950s, was the highest destination of the then famous Zug tramways.DemographicsMenzingen has a population of., 16.1% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years, the population has decreased at a rate of -1.6%. Most of the population speaks German (88.8%), with Albanian being second most common (3.3%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (1.5%).