Wilen

Geschichte

Wilen is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. Prior to Thurgau's 1998 reorganisation, Wilen was known as Wilen bei Wil and was part of Rickenbach bei Wil, which was then broken up into the municipalities of Rickenbach and Wilen.GeographyWilen has an area, of 2.27km2. Of this area, 1.26km2 or 55.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.47km2 or 20.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.47km2 or 20.7% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01km2 or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes and 0.06km2 or 2.6% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 15.0% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 0.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.0%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.3% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 3.5%. Out of the forested land, 18.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 52.4% is used for growing crops, while 3.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.DemographicsWilen has a population of, 8.3% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of %. Most of the population speaks German(95.4%), with Italian being second most common ( 1.6%) and English being third ( 0.6%).