Buochs

Buochs

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Nidwalden Nidwalden (NW)
District :	No district divisionw
BFS no. :	1502i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	6374
Coordinates :	674.84 thousand / 203281 coordinates: 46 ° 58 '35 " N , 8 ° 25' 20" O ; CH1903: 674.84 thousand / 20328146.976385 8.42223 435
Height :	435 m above sea level M.
Height range :	433-1805 m above sea level M.
Area :	9.96 km²
Residents:	5311 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	533 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	15.2% (December 31, 2,015)
Website:	www.buochs.ch
Buochs and Buochserhorn
Location of the municipality
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Buochs is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland .

geography

The community is located on the southern shore of Lake Lucerne , on the northern slope of the Buochserhorn and in the plain northwest of it created by the Engelberger Aa . Buochs' local mountain is the Buochserhorn, 1806.8 m above sea level. M. The village center is at 435 m above sea level. M.

Almost half (48%) of the entire municipal area is used for agriculture, in the plain with a large part that has been set aside for the airfield . 34.1% of the community area is covered by forest or wood. 16% of the community area serves as settlement area; 1.9% are unproductive areas.

The Rübibach flows from the Buochserhorn through the village to Lake Lucerne. The canton of Nidwalden had the steep ravines of this Bach on the mountainside because of frequent landslides with Bach barriers secure.

The municipality of Buochs borders Ennetbürgen in the northwest , Gersau ( SZ ) in the northeast on the other side of Lake Lucerne , Beckenried in the southeast, Oberdorf in the south and Stans in the west .

history

Traces of early settlement in the Buochs area have been documented since Roman times. The place name Buochs is likely to derive from a late Roman name form, as the extensive linguistic discussion has shown.

The organization of the free peasantry of Buochs has existed since 1348, from which today's Buochs cooperative corporation emerged. The Ennetbürgen corporation only separated from this in 1910. The comrades of the Buochs corporation are called Achermann, Barmettler, Baumgartner, Bucher, Christen, Ettlin, Frank, Gabriel, Hug, Huser, Niederberger, Odermatt, Risi, Scheuber, Stulz, von Büren, von Holzen, Wyrsch and Zimmermann. The cooperative corporation operates Alp Arhölzli on the southwest flank of the Buochserhorn, maintains the protective forest above the village of Buochs and has been cultivating the Buochser Naswald on the north side of the Buochser Seebucht since 1619. The forest has been a nature reserve since 2010.

The independent parish of St. Martin has existed in Buochs since 1454. The course of the Engelberger Aa was corrected for the first time around 1500.

During the Helvetic era , the village almost completely fell victim to a major fire during an attack by French troops in 1798. 52 people were killed.

There have been industrial companies in Buochs since 1838. In 1855 the direct cantonal road from Stans to Buochs was built with the thread bridge over the Aa. In 1938 the Buochs military airfield was built on land owned by the cooperative corporation, and in 1970 the A2 motorway , which lies directly on the southern edge of the village.

Historical aerial photo from 400 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1925

population

Population development

The population grew strongly between 1850 and 1870. It fell a little in the following decade, but then increased again from the 1880s. Overall, the population grew by 354 people, or 27.6%, between 1850 and 1900. Between 1900 and 1920 there was another small emigration movement (1900-1920: −5.4%). Since then, the population has been growing steadily and is now more than four times as much as in 1850. Because of its good road connection on the A2, Buochs is within commuter distance from the greater Lucerne area. In 2008, however, it only grew by 31 people or 0.6%. Buochs is part of the Stans agglomeration with 30,274 inhabitants (end of 2008).

Population development of Buochs since 1850 Source: Population censuses (1850–2000 Federal), Federal Statistical Office (2010 and 2015)

languages

The population speaks a highly Alemannic dialect. Many of them still speak Nidwalden German - while the vast majority of immigrants come from the cantons of Lucerne and Schwyz and speak the dialects customary there. Almost the entire population speaks German as the everyday language. In the last census in 2000, 90.9% said German, 1.8% Italian and 1.7% Serbo-Croatian as their main language.

religion

Classicist Catholic parish church of St. Martin

The population used to belong entirely to the Roman Catholic Church. The denominational relationships in 2000 still show the original structure. 3,688 people were Catholic (75.95%). In addition, there were 11.68% Evangelical Reformed and 2.90% Orthodox Christians, 2.51% Muslims and 4.22% non-religious. 123 people (2.53%) did not provide any information about their creed.

The Catholic parish church of St. Martin, whose first predecessor is mentioned in a document from the Engelberg monastery from 1157 and is also proven by archaeological excavations, was built in the Oberdorf from 1802 to 1808 according to plans by the architect Niklaus Purtschert . Buochs had been the mother parish of the eastern part of the canton of Nidwalden since the Middle Ages. There are also several chapels in Buochs, of which the Obergass Chapel and the Loreto Chapel on the Nidwalden section of the Way of St. James deserve special mention.

The modern Reformed Church of Buochs, which was inaugurated in 1962, serves the Evangelical Reformed Parish of Buochs, which includes the Evangelical Reformed Churches in Buochs, Beckenried, Emmetten and Ennetbürgen.

Origin - nationality

At the end of 2017, 4,583 (84.73%) of the residents were Swiss nationals. The majority of the immigrants come from Central and Western Europe (Germany 169 and Great Britain 54 people), from Southern Europe (Italy 72, Portugal 48 and Spain 18 people) and the former Yugoslavia (Macedonia 84, Kosovo 62, Bosnia-Herzegovina 44, Serbia 35 and Croatia 14 people). At the 2000 census, 4,285 people (88.24%) were Swiss citizens; 175 of them had dual citizenship.

age structure

The church has a high proportion of middle-aged people. While the proportion of people under the age of twenty makes up 18.99% of the local population, 14.03% are senior citizens (60 years and older). The largest age group is now between 45 and 59 years. In 2000 it was still in the 30 to 44 age group. The reason for this is the aging of the baby boomer generation (born up to 1965). For every 100 people of working age (20–64 years; 3412 people) there are 30 young people (1027 people) and 22 people (759 people) of retirement age.

The current age distribution is shown in the following table:

Age	0–6 years	7-15 years	16-19 years	20-29 years	30–44 years	45–59 years	60–79 years	80 years and more	Residents
number	374	452	201	737	1038	1292	1068	247	5409
proportion of	6.91%	8.36%	3.72%	13.63%	19.19%	23.89%	19.74%	4.57%	100%
Source: Federal Statistical Office, population by age at the end of 2017

The aging increases. A comparison with the year 2000 proves this. The last census in 2000 showed the following age structure:

Age	0–6 years	7-15 years	16-19 years	20-29 years	30–44 years	45–59 years	60–79 years	80 years and more	Residents
number	407	645	246	587	1252	918	634	167	4856
proportion of	8.38%	13.28%	5.07%	12.09%	25.78%	18.90%	13.06%	3.44%	100%

economy

In Buochs around 2005 there were 1483 jobs in 258 companies. Agriculture / forestry / fisheries (Sector 1) accounted for 9.6%, industry and commerce (Sector 2) 32.6% and service companies (Sector 3) for 57.7%. The unemployment rate in 2007 was 1.32%.

In 2017, of 1924 employees, 1053 were male and 871 were female. The numbers for the 3 sectors are as follows:

	Companies 1st sector	Employees 1st sector	Full-time positions 1st sector	Companies 2nd sector	Employees 2nd sector	Full-time positions 2nd sector	Companies 3rd sector	Employees 3rd sector	Full-time positions 3rd sector	Operations total	employees Total	Total full-time positions
number	41	119	79	76	537	465	281	1268	871	398	1924	1415
proportion of	10.30%	6.19%	5.58%	19.10%	27.91%	32.86%	70.60%	65.90%	61.55%	100%	100%	100%
Source: Federal Statistical Office; Statistics of the company structure STATENT, workplaces and employees by municipality and economic sector

In 2000 there were 1536 people in employment in Buochs. Of these, 857 (55.79%) were locals and 679 were commuters. More than 70% of the commuters came from the canton of Nidwalden. In the same year, 2,653 people from Buochs were gainfully employed. Thus 1796 people worked in other parishes. 640 people commuted to Stans (= 35.6% of all commuters). Outside the canton, most commuters worked in the city of Lucerne (240 people), in Kriens (61) and in Emmen (59).

traffic

Buochs boat station

Buochs is located on the A2 Basel - Lucerne - Gotthard motorway and has a motorway entrance . Most of the runways of the Buochs airfield are located in the municipality .

The community is accessible on the main road through the post bus line (state park) Stans Bahnhof– Seelisberg .

On the lake, the Buochs boat station can be reached in summer with scheduled boats operated by the Vierwaldstättersee shipping company .

sport and freetime

From July 15 to 18, 2009 the Junior Wildwater Worldchampionships (Junior World Championships in the white water downhill run) of the International Canoe Association (ICF ) took place on the Engelberger Aa . The organizing committee, which was presided over by government councilor Beatrice Jann , was composed mainly of members of the Canoe Club Nidwalden and the Canoe Club Obwalden.

There are numerous clubs in Buochs. These include the Buochs Music Club (founded in 1895), the Buochs Shooting Society (founded 1845), the Buochs Theater Society (founded 1860), the Buochs Sports Club ( SC Buochs , founded 1934), the Buochs Samaritan Association (founded around 1940) , the Pfadi St. Martin Buochs (founded 1941), the Buochs ski club (founded 1946), the Buochs volleyball club (founded 1974) and the Kanu Club Nidwalden (founded 1999).

On the shores of Lake Lucerne are the Buochs-Ennetbürgen lido with the Nidwalden water sports center, which opened in 2015, the Seefeld sports field built in 1934 for SC Buochs , the boat harbor of the Buochs cooperative corporation and a TCS campsite .

Alpinlift Helikopter AG in Buochs carries out freight flights as well as leisure transports from Buochs airfield. The pilots of the Nidwalden gliding group also start from Buochs.