Silenen

Geschichte

Silenen is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland.GeographySilenen municipality comprises the villages of Silenen, Amsteg, and Acherli, besides numerous smaller hamlets or dispersed settlements, including Schützen, Buechholz, Öfibach, Dägerlohn, Frentschenberg, Ried, Maderanerthal valley, Hofstetten, Silblen, and the Golzeren plateau Silenen has an area, of 144.8km2. Of this area, 12.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 18.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.7% is settled and the remainder is non-productive .Arnisee can be reached by gondola lift from Amsteg.The Zwing Uri Castle, overlooking Amsteg has some importance in Swiss historiography as the first fortress destroyed in the Burgenbruch at the beginning of the Swiss Confederacy.DemographicsSilenen has a population of., 11.7% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 4.5%. Most of the population speaks German (98.1%), with Italian being second most common ( 0.2%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 0.2%). the gender distribution of the population was 55.3% male and 44.7% female.In the 2007 federal election the FDP party received 87.4% of the vote.