Tägerwilen

Geschichte

Tägerwilen is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.GeographyTägerwilen has an area, of 11.52km2. Of this area, 5.47km2 or 47.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.31km2 or 37.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.66km2 or 14.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.04km2 or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and 0.06km2 or 0.5% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 6.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 1.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.5%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.8% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.6%. Out of the forested land, 35.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 44.0% is used for growing crops, while 3.5% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.DemographicsTägerwilen has a population of, 30.2% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 11.5%. Most of the population speaks German(90.7%), with Albanian being second most common ( 3.1%) and Italian being third ( 1.6%)., the gender distribution of the population was 49.0% male and 51.0% female. The population was made up of 1,219 Swiss men (32.6% of the population), and 611 (16.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,387 Swiss women (37.1%), and 519 (13.9%) non-Swiss women.