Wagenhausen

Geschichte

Wagenhausen is a municipality in Frauenfeld District in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. The municipality includes the settlements of Etzwilen, Kaltenbach and Rheinklingen.GeographyWagenhausen has an area, of 11.84km2. Of this area, 6.36km2 or 53.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.45km2 or 29.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.35km2 or 11.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.52km2 or 4.4% is either rivers or lakes and 0.14km2 or 1.2% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 4.5% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 0.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.6%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.1% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.6%. Out of the forested land, 27.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 51.5% is used for growing crops, while 2.2% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Of the unproductive areas, 1.2% is unproductive vegetation.In 1995 Rheinklingen merged into Wagenhausen.DemographicsWagenhausen has a population of, 15.7% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 1.4%. Most of the population speaks German(91.2%), with Albanian being second most common ( 2.9%) and Turkish being third ( 1.3%).