Dietwil
Encyclopedia
Dietwil is a municipality
in the district of Muri
in the canton
of Aargau
in Switzerland
.
in Lucerne
it was also called Kleindietwil or Dietwil im Reusstal.
At the beginning of the 15th Century, the Lucerne
von Moos family acquired the right to low justice
in the village, which they relinquished in 1422 to Lucerne. After the conquest of the Aargau in 1415, the village came under the authority of the city of Lucerne and was part of the Meienberg district. In 1798 Dietwil's ties to Lucerne were severed. With the Act of Mediation
in 1803, it became part of the newly created Canton of Aargau. In 1863 a decision of the Cantonal Council of Aargau naturalized all the gypsies who had settled in Dietwil after fleeing Napoleon's armies in Belarus
.
In 1145 the Catholic
parish church
of St. James the elder was dedicated. It was replaced in 1780 by the current rococo
aisleless church
. Between 1370-1806, the Knights of Malta house at Hohenrain possessed the right of patronage.
The municipality has a little regional agricultural trade. The ferries from Eien
and Gumpelsfahr connect Dietwil with Zug
. The nearby on-ramp to the A14 Motorway, which runs from Zug to Lucerne, has led to growth in Dietwil. In 2000 about a third of the workers in Dietwil worked in agriculture and slightly more than half in the services sector.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.7%. Out of the forested land, 15.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 45.3% is used for growing crops and 24.9% is pastures, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.
The municipality is located in the Muri district, on the Reuss river. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Dietwil and the hamlets
of Eien and Gumpelsfahr. Bordered on two sides by the cantons of Zug
and Lucerne
, it is the southernmost village of that canton.
of the municipal coat of arms
is Per fess Argent a Wall Anchor Cross Sable and Azure. It depicts a wall anchor and is derived from the arms of the Eschenbach family, founders of the local church.
(96.7%), with French
being second most common ( 0.7%) and Albanian
being third ( 0.6%).
The age distribution, , in Dietwil is; 129 children or 11.3% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 153 teenagers or 13.4% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 153 people or 13.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 189 people or 16.5% are between 30 and 39, 220 people or 19.2% are between 40 and 49, and 140 people or 12.2% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 79 people or 6.9% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 54 people or 4.7% are between 70 and 79, there are 24 people or 2.1% who are between 80 and 89,and there are 4 people or 0.3% who are 90 and older.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.6 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.57 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m² (43.1 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 51.4% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 28 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 171 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 157 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. , there were 377 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. there were 153 single family homes (or 33.2% of the total) out of a total of 461 homes and apartments. There were a total of 10 empty apartments for a 2.2% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 24.5 new units per 1000 residents.
In the 2007 federal election
the most popular party was the SVP
which received 42.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP
(27.5%), the FDP
(12.3%) and the SP
(7.6%).
The historical population is given in the following table:
.
there were 552 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 436 or about 79.0% of the residents worked outside Dietwil while 61 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 177 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality. Of the working population, 8.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 60.4% used a private car.
.
). Of the school age population , there are 72 students attending primary school in the municipality.
Municipalities of Switzerland
Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,596 . While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities...
in the district of Muri
Muri (district)
Muri District is a district in the Swiss Canton of Aargau with the administrative capital of Muri. It covers the central and southern part of Freiamt and has a population of .-Geography:...
in the canton
Cantons of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the federal state of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereign state with its own borders, army and currency from the Treaty of Westphalia until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848...
of Aargau
Aargau
Aargau is one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. It comprises the lower course of the river Aare, which is why the canton is called Aar-gau .-History:...
in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
.
History
Dietwil is first mentioned in 1236 as Tuetwile. To distinguish it from the municipality of GrossdietwilGrossdietwil
Grossdietwil is a municipality in the district of Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.-History:Grossdietwil is first mentioned in 1194 as Toutwillare. Since 1810 it has been known as Grossdietwil.-Geography:...
in Lucerne
Canton of Lucerne
Lucerne is a canton of Switzerland. It is located in the centre of Switzerland. The population of the canton is . , the population included 57,268 foreigners, or about 15.8% of the total population. The cantonal capital is Lucerne.-History:...
it was also called Kleindietwil or Dietwil im Reusstal.
At the beginning of the 15th Century, the Lucerne
Lucerne
Lucerne is a city in north-central Switzerland, in the German-speaking portion of that country. Lucerne is the capital of the Canton of Lucerne and the capital of the district of the same name. With a population of about 76,200 people, Lucerne is the most populous city in Central Switzerland, and...
von Moos family acquired the right to low justice
High, middle and low justice
High, middle and low justices are notions dating from Western feudalism to indicate descending degrees of judiciary power to administer justice by the maximal punishment the holders could inflict upon their subjects and other dependents....
in the village, which they relinquished in 1422 to Lucerne. After the conquest of the Aargau in 1415, the village came under the authority of the city of Lucerne and was part of the Meienberg district. In 1798 Dietwil's ties to Lucerne were severed. With the Act of Mediation
Act of Mediation
The Act of Mediation was issued by Napoleon Bonaparte on 19 February 1803 establishing the Swiss Confederation. The act also abolished the previous Helvetic Republic, which had existed since the invasion of Switzerland by French troops in 1798. After the withdrawal of French troops in July 1802,...
in 1803, it became part of the newly created Canton of Aargau. In 1863 a decision of the Cantonal Council of Aargau naturalized all the gypsies who had settled in Dietwil after fleeing Napoleon's armies in Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
.
In 1145 the Catholic
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
parish church
Parish church
A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....
of St. James the elder was dedicated. It was replaced in 1780 by the current rococo
Rococo
Rococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...
aisleless church
Aisleless church
An Aisleless church is a single-nave church building that consists of a single hall-like room. While similar to the hall church, the aisleless church lacks aisles or passageways either side of the nave separated from the nave by colonnades or arcades, a row of pillars or columns...
. Between 1370-1806, the Knights of Malta house at Hohenrain possessed the right of patronage.
The municipality has a little regional agricultural trade. The ferries from Eien
Eien
was a after Kanna and before Eiso. This period spanned the years from April 987 through August 988. The reigning emperor was .-Change of era:* January 2, 987 : The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events...
and Gumpelsfahr connect Dietwil with Zug
Zug
Zug , is a German-speaking city in Switzerland. The name ‘Zug’ originates from fishing vocabulary; in the Middle Ages it referred to the right to ‘pull up’ fishing nets and hence to the right to fish.The city of Zug is located in the Canton of Zug and is its capital...
. The nearby on-ramp to the A14 Motorway, which runs from Zug to Lucerne, has led to growth in Dietwil. In 2000 about a third of the workers in Dietwil worked in agriculture and slightly more than half in the services sector.
Geography
Dietwil has an area, , of 5.5 square kilometres (2.1 sq mi). Of this area, 3.99 km² (1.5 sq mi) or 72.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.94 km² (0.362936029076983 sq mi) or 17.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.49 km² (0.189190057710342 sq mi) or 8.9% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.09 km² (22.2 acre) or 1.6% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km² (2.5 acre) or 0.2% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.7%. Out of the forested land, 15.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 45.3% is used for growing crops and 24.9% is pastures, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.
The municipality is located in the Muri district, on the Reuss river. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Dietwil and the hamlets
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
of Eien and Gumpelsfahr. Bordered on two sides by the cantons of Zug
Canton of Zug
The Canton of Zug is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland. It is located in central Switzerland and its capital is Zug. With 239 km² the canton is one of the smallest of the cantons in terms of area. It is not subdivided into districts.- History :The earlier history of the canton is...
and Lucerne
Canton of Lucerne
Lucerne is a canton of Switzerland. It is located in the centre of Switzerland. The population of the canton is . , the population included 57,268 foreigners, or about 15.8% of the total population. The cantonal capital is Lucerne.-History:...
, it is the southernmost village of that canton.
Coat of arms
The blazonBlazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image...
of the municipal coat of arms
Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
is Per fess Argent a Wall Anchor Cross Sable and Azure. It depicts a wall anchor and is derived from the arms of the Eschenbach family, founders of the local church.
Demographics
Dietwil has a population of , 8.6% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 7.2%. Most of the population speaks GermanGerman language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
(96.7%), with French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
being second most common ( 0.7%) and Albanian
Albanian language
Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...
being third ( 0.6%).
The age distribution, , in Dietwil is; 129 children or 11.3% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 153 teenagers or 13.4% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 153 people or 13.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 189 people or 16.5% are between 30 and 39, 220 people or 19.2% are between 40 and 49, and 140 people or 12.2% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 79 people or 6.9% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 54 people or 4.7% are between 70 and 79, there are 24 people or 2.1% who are between 80 and 89,and there are 4 people or 0.3% who are 90 and older.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.6 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.57 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m² (43.1 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 51.4% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
Mortgage loan
A mortgage loan is a loan secured by real property through the use of a mortgage note which evidences the existence of the loan and the encumbrance of that realty through the granting of a mortgage which secures the loan...
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 28 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 171 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 157 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. , there were 377 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. there were 153 single family homes (or 33.2% of the total) out of a total of 461 homes and apartments. There were a total of 10 empty apartments for a 2.2% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 24.5 new units per 1000 residents.
In the 2007 federal election
Swiss federal election, 2007
Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 November 2007...
the most popular party was the SVP
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...
which received 42.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP
Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland
The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland is a Christian democratic political party in Switzerland. It is the fourth-largest party in the National Council, with 31 seats, and the largest in the Council of States, with 15 seats. It has one seat, that of Doris Leuthard, on the Swiss...
(27.5%), the FDP
Free Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Free Democratic Party was a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It was one of the major parties in Switzerland until its merger with the smaller classical liberal Liberal Party, to form FDP.The Liberals on 1 January 2009....
(12.3%) and the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(7.6%).
The historical population is given in the following table:
| year | population |
|---|---|
| 1850 | 794 |
| 1900 | 560 |
| 1950 | 624 |
| 1980 | 633 |
| 2000 | 1,023 |
Heritage sites of national significance
The Catholic parish church of Dietwil is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significanceSwiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance
The Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance is a register of some 8,300 items of cultural property in Switzerland...
.
Economy
, Dietwil had an unemployment rate of 1.41%. , there were 100 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 29 businesses involved in this sector. 17 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 11 businesses in this sector. 57 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 16 businesses in this sector.there were 552 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 436 or about 79.0% of the residents worked outside Dietwil while 61 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 177 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality. Of the working population, 8.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 60.4% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 794 or 77.6% were Roman Catholic, while 121 or 11.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed ChurchSwiss Reformed Church
The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel , Bern , St...
.
Education
The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Dietwil about 79.3% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a FachhochschuleFachhochschule
A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...
). Of the school age population , there are 72 students attending primary school in the municipality.