Zeihen

Geschichte

Zeihen is a municipality in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.GeographyZeihen has an area, of 6.88km2. Of this area, 3.5km2 or 50.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.8km2 or 40.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.59km2 or 8.6% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01km2 or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01km2 or 0.1% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.5%. Out of the forested land, 37.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 23.5% is used for growing crops and 24.4% is pastures, while 2.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.The municipalities of Bözen, Effingen, Elfingen, Hornussen and Zeihen are considering a merger some time in the future into a new municipality with an as yet undetermined name.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Vert a Pale counter-compony Sable and Or between two Ears of Wheat of the last.DemographicsZeihen has a population of, 8.5% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 12.8%. Most of the population speaks German (92.6%), with Albanian being second most common ( 4.6%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 0.8%).