Reiden

Geschichte

Reiden is a municipality in the district of Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On January 1, 2006 the former municipalities of Langnau bei Reiden and Richenthal were united in the new municipality of Reiden.GeographyReiden has an area, of 27km2. Of this area, 52.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 36.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 10.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.5%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains)., 36.67% of the total land area was forested. Of the agricultural land, 49.96% is used for farming or pastures, while 2.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the settled areas, 5.19% is covered with buildings, 0.78% is industrial, 0.59% is classed as special developments, 0.37% is parks or greenbelts and 3.26% is transportation infrastructure. Of the unproductive areas, 0.41% is unproductive flowing water (rivers) and 0.07% is other unproductive land.DemographicsReiden has a population of., 1,332 or about 21.0% are not Swiss citizens. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 4%. Most of the population speaks German (86.9%), with Albanian being second most common ( 5.3%) and Italian being third ( 2.5%).In the 2007 election the most popular party was the FDP which received 29.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (28.8%), the SVP (28.2%) and the SPS (7%).