Wigoltingen

Geschichte

Wigoltingen is a municipality in the district of Weinfelden in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.GeographyWigoltingen has an area, of 17.15km2. Of this area, 12.93km2 or 75.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.15km2 or 12.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.9km2 or 11.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.21km2 or 1.2% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01km2 or 0.1% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 4.0% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 0.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.5%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 6.2%. Out of the forested land, 11.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 71.7% is used for growing crops, while 3.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the water in the municipality, 0.3% is in lakes and 0.9% is in rivers and streams.In 1995 Engwang and Illhart merged with Wigoltingen.DemographicsWigoltingen has a population of, 10.6% 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 (94.4%), with Italian being second most common ( 1.8%) and Portuguese being third ( 1.4%)., the gender distribution of the population was 50.7% male and 49.3% female. The population was made up of 934 Swiss men (44.5% of the population), and 131 (6.2%) non-Swiss men. There were 942 Swiss women (44.9%), and 92 (4.4%) non-Swiss women.