Schönenberg

Geschichte

Schönenberg is a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.GeographySchönenberg has an area of 11km2. Of this area, 77.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 11.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 9.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (2.4%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 7% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (2.2%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 1.3% of the area. 3.2% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.Teufenbachweiher is a reservoir on the Teufenbach creek.DemographicsSchönenberg has a population of., 8.9% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 11.6%. Most of the population speaks German (96.5%), with French being second most common ( 0.8%) and English being third ( 0.8%).In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 49.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (13.3%), the SPS (10.2%) and the CSP (9.2%).