Ballwil

Ballwil
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Lucerne (LU)
Constituency :	Hochdorf
BFS no. :	1023
Postal code :	6275
Coordinates :	666 892  /  222.74 thousand coordinates: 47 ° 9 '8 "  N , 8 ° 19' 14"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred sixty-six thousand eight hundred ninety-two  /  two hundred twenty-two thousand seven hundred and forty
Height :	513  m above sea level M.
Height range :	431-529 m above sea level M.
Area :	8.77  km²
Residents:	2764 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	315 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	7.2% (December 31, 2,015)
Website:	www.ballwil.ch
Location of the municipality

Ballwil ( Swiss German Baubu [ ˈbɑʊbʊ ]), until 1814 Mettenwil, is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Lucerne . It belongs to the constituency of Hochdorf .

The community is located on the western slope of the Lindenberg , leaning towards the Reuss valley , and forms the entrance to the Lucerne Seetal . The community includes the village, numerous hamlets, groups of houses and individual farms. The largest districts after the village (with different quarters) are Gibelflüh ( 499  m above sea level ; 2.5 km east of the village), Gerligen ( 476  m above sea level ; 1.1 km southeast), Wald ( 475  m above sea level ) above sea level ; 2.5 km southeast) and knowledge trails ( 500  m above sea level ; 2.1 km east). There are few forest areas in the community (Gerligenwald, Fäjerenwald, Gorgenwald and parts of the Eibeler and Hiltig forests). The Hiltigbach ( called Gerligenbach in Ballwil ), which flows through Ballwil coming from Oberebersol (Hohenrain), flows into the Reuss at St. Kathrinen (Inwil). The Hiltigbach takes on some tributaries on its (short) run (the Moosbach on Ballwiler Boden ). There is a small pond near the Sagi district. An even bigger one, the Gütschweiher, is west of the village. To the north of this there was once another pond, the Weiherhausweiher .

The municipal ban of Ballwil measures 876 hectares; these are divided into built-up areas (buildings, streets, squares) with 51 ha (5.8%), meadow and arable land with 729 ha (83.2%), forest with 80.6 ha (9.2%) and the rest of the area (bodies of water, gravel mining area) with 15.4 ha (1.8%).

Neighboring communities are clockwise from the north: Hohenrain , Sins in the canton of Aargau, Inwil , Eschenbach and Hochdorf .

population

Population development
year	Residents
1850	1'004
1870	890
1888	770
1900	805
1950	1'180
1970	1,327
1980	1,552
1990	1,823
2000	2,112
2010	2,524

In the second half of the 19th century, the population fell massively as a result of emigration (1850–1888: −23.3%). Since then it has risen continuously. From 1888 to 1970 the growth was steady but small (1888–1970: +557 people or +72.3%). Since then, there has been a sustained and strong increase (1970–2010: +1197 people or +90.2%). This is not least due to the proximity to the cities of Lucerne and Zug .

languages

The population speaks a highly Alemannic dialect as everyday language. In the last census in 2000, 95.64% said German, 1.04% Albanian and 0.90% Serbo-Croatian as their main language.

Religions - denominations

In the past, all residents were members of the Roman Catholic Church. Today (as of 2000) 81.96% are Roman Catholic, 7.72% Evangelical Reformed, 1.18% Orthodox and 1.14% Free Church Christians; the Catholics belong to the diocese of Basel , the Reformed to the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Lucerne . There are also 4.55% non-denominational and 0.57% Muslim.

Origin - nationality

At the end of 2014, 2,476 of the 2,649 inhabitants were Swiss and 173 (= 6.5%) foreigners. The population consisted of 93.5% Swiss citizens. At the end of 2014, the foreign residents came from Germany (35.8%), Italy (9.2%), Portugal (8.2%), Serbia including Kosovo (6.9%) and Spain (1.2%). 28.3% came from the rest of Europe and 10.4 % came from outside Europe.

history

Village church

Aerial photo (1962)

As found at the Höchweid farmstead (southeast of the village; remains of a Roman settlement) and in 1978 at the Bälletz farmstead (northeast of Eschenbach; Roman bricks), parts of the community were settled early on.

Germanic names give an indication of Alemannic settlement. For the first time under its current name, in the form of Paldiwilare, the place is mentioned in 924 under the property of the Fraumünster Abbey of Zurich; the name means "at Baldo's homestead, Paldo". In 1210 a noble servant named Hartmann von Ballwil (Baldewile) is mentioned. This family built a castle and initially worked as local administrators for the Counts of Kyburg and after their extinction for the Habsburgs . A Bruno von Ballwil was killed on the Austrian side in the battle of Morgarten in 1315 . The family died out in 1381.

Parts of the community were in the Habsburg office of Richensee, others in the Habsburg office of Rothenburg. Between 1385 and 1413, all districts came under the rule of the city of Lucerne and from then on belonged to their ruling bailiffs in Rothenburg. In 1798 Mettenwil, as the municipality was called at that time, was assigned to the newly created district and in 1803 to the Hochdorf office .

In 2006 a mammoth tooth that is around 45,000 years old was found in Ballwil. Four years later, quartz was found in the Schönfeld district (Oberdorf). This was followed by a brief discussion about commercial quartz mining. However, this was rejected by the municipality in a vote in 2012 due to the settlement aspect.

politics

Municipal council

The Ballwil municipal council consists of five members and is set up as follows:

• Benno Büeler ( CVP ): Mayor
• Petra Jenni (CVP): Construction
• Gabriela Käch ( SVP ): Social
• Anton Kaufmann ( FDP ): Education
• Roger Mathis (CVP): Finance

Cantonal elections

In the 2015 Cantonal Council elections for the Canton of Lucerne, the voting shares in Ballwil were: CVP 39.4%, SVP 34.6%, FDP 15.1%, SP 4.8%, glp 3.0%, GPS 2.8%.

National Council elections

In the Swiss parliamentary elections 2015, the share of the vote in Ballwil was: SVP 40.3%, CVP 26.3%, FDP 16.6%, SP 5.8%, glp 5.3%, Greens 3.6%, BDP 1, 1 %.

traffic

With the Seetalbahn , as the Lucerne- Lenzburg railway line is popularly known, Ballwil is well served by public transport. The TransSeetalExpress , a bus line from Hochdorf to Rotkreuz , has also been operating for a number of years . This gives the community a connection to the Zurich S-Bahn .

The village is on the important transport link from Lucerne to Lenzburg. The district of Gibelflüh is on the Ballwil- Sins road , while Gerligen and Wald are on the road from Ballwil to Inwil. The closest motorway connections are Sempach and Emmen-Nord on the A2 and Buchrain on the A14 .

schools

In Ballwil, the kindergarten has three departments and the primary school has eleven departments. The children attend the Real and Secondary School in the upper school center in Eschenbach. The canton school is located in Baldegg. The Ballwil primary school district is not congruent with the political municipality. Ballwil children from the Lohren, Wald, Meiengrüne and Singeln homesteads go to school in Inwil . Children from the farms Eien, Dünkel, Belletz, Süessholz, Roggwil, Untergerligen, Alp and Laterne attend the school in Eschenbach . In return, the children from the Aegerten and Neuaegerten farms (municipality of Hochdorf ) and those from Ottenhusen, Grüt, Oberfeld and Kramis (municipality of Hohenrain ) come to the schools in Ballwil.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Ballwil

The Gütschweiher is a small nature reserve and is under the protection of the community. It is interesting both because of its vegetation and because of the native fauna. The abundance of insects is very diverse.

Personalities

• Josef Felix Ineichen (1845–1818), pastor and pioneer of dialect literature
• Leo Amberg (1912–1999), racing cyclist
• Thomas Häberli (* 1974), footballer

Others

The water supply cooperative Ballwil draws water from the groundwater stream that flows through the Seetal in a northerly direction. The pumping station is west of the cantonal road near the Wassergass, the reservoir in the Grüt, above Ottenhusen.

literature

• Stefan Jäggi: Ballwil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

Commons : Ballwil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Ballwil
• Community profile of the cantonal statistical office (PDF, 108 KB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Permanent resident population by nationality category, gender and municipality ( memento from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (permanent resident population)
3. ↑ ortsnames.ch , accessed on January 3, 2020.
4. ↑ Balance of the permanent resident population according to demographic components, institutional structure, nationality and gender (Federal Statistical Office, STAT-TAB)
5. ↑ ^{a b} LUSTAT: Community profile Ballwil ( Memento from May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 118.
7. ↑ National Council elections 2015: strength of the parties and voter turnout by municipality. In: Results of the National Council elections 2015. Federal Statistical Office, 2016, accessed on May 31, 2016 .