Zihlschlacht-Sitterdorf

Geschichte

Zihlschlacht-Sitterdorf is a municipality in Weinfelden District in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.GeographyZihlschlacht-Sitterdorf has an area, of 12.2km2. Of this area, 8.98km2 or 73.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.94km2 or 15.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.12km2 or 9.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.14km2 or 1.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01km2 or 0.1% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 4.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 0.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.2%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 3.2%. Out of the forested land, 13.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 60.9% is used for growing crops, while 12.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.Zihlschlacht-Sitterdorf was formed in 1997 through the merger of Zihlschlacht with Sitterdorf.DemographicsZihlschlacht-Sitterdorf has a population of, 10.5% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 4.9%. Most of the population speaks German(92.7%), with Albanian being second most common ( 1.6%) and Portuguese being third ( 1.5%)., the gender distribution of the population was 52.5% male and 47.5% female. The population was made up of 962 Swiss men (46.9% of the population), and 115 (5.6%) non-Swiss men. There were 874 Swiss women (42.6%), and 100 (4.9%) non-Swiss women.