Vordemwald

Geschichte

Vordemwald is a municipality in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.GeographyVordemwald has an area, of 10.13km2. Of this area, 3.52km2 or 34.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 5.88km2 or 58.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.73km2 or 7.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02km2 or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%. Out of the forested land, 56.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 23.5% is used for growing crops and 10.3% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent a Pine Tree eradicated Vert ensigned in base with a letter V Gules. This is an example of canting with the letter V placed before the pine-tree (Vor dem Wald meaning "before the forest")DemographicsVordemwald has a population of, 3.3% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 0.7%. Most of the population speaks German(96.1%), with Italian being second most common ( 1.4%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 0.4%).