Egolzwil

Egolzwil
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Lucerne (LU)
Constituency :	Willisau
BFS no. :	1127
Postal code :	6243
Coordinates :	643 096  /  226161 coordinates: 47 ° 11 '6 "  N , 8 ° 0' 26"  O ; CH1903:  643096  /  226161
Height :	523  m above sea level M.
Height range :	488–700 m above sea level M.
Area :	4.18  km²
Residents:	1457 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	349 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	9.8% (December 31, 2,015)
Website:	www.egolzwil.ch
Egolzwil seen from the Wauwilermoos
Location of the municipality

Egolzwil is a municipality in the Willisau constituency in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland .

geography

The village lies on the edge of the silted-up lake Wauwil on the southern foothills of the Santenberg. This is called Egolzwilerberg and reaches a height of 701  m above sea level. M. The municipality belongs Wauwilermoos Prison and the district Engelberg ( 625  M. m above sea level. , The former owner, his name, northeast of the village 800 m) Engelberg Abbey owes.

62.1% of the municipal area is used for agriculture, 23.9% is covered with forest and wood and 12.9% is settlement area. The remnant of the Wauwilersee - the 339 ares large Egolzwilersee (110 × 270 m) - also belongs to the municipality .

Neighboring communities of Egolzwil are Dagmersellen in the north, Wauwil in the east, Schötz in the south and south-west and Nebikon in the north-west.

population

Population development
year	Residents
1798	340
1850	576
1920	398
1930	458
1970	638
1990	847
2000	1,226
2004	1,256

The population grew rapidly until 1850, then fell steadily until 1920 and then grew until 2000. Since then, stagnation has occurred.

languages

The population uses a highly Alemannic dialect as a colloquial language. 92.99% of the population speak German, 2.28% Serbo-Croatian and 1.22% Albanian as their main / everyday language (as of 2000).

Religions - denominations

The residents are traditionally Roman Catholic Christians. Today the religious situation looks like this: 80.59% Roman Catholics, 7.75% Evangelical Reformed, 2.37% Orthodox Christians, 2.28% Muslims and 2.20% non-denominational (as of 2000).

Origin - nationality

At the end of 2014, of the 1,368 inhabitants, 1,251 were Swiss and 117 (= 8.6%) were foreigners. The population consisted of 91.4% Swiss citizens. At the end of 2014, the foreign residents came from Germany (23.9%), Serbia including Kosovo (22.2%), Italy (7.7%), Portugal (7.7%), Spain (1.7%) and the Turkey (0.9%). 11.1% came from the rest of Europe and 24.8 % came from outside Europe.

history

Aerial photo (1950)

The community is the namesake of the so-called Egolzwiler culture . In the past 100 years, excavations on the former edge of the Wauwilersee , which was drained in 1859 , revealed settlement remains, tools and ceramics from the time 4,500-4,300 BC. To the fore. The place is actually the oldest settlement in the canton of Lucerne. The place was first mentioned in historical times in 1081. In 1150 the name Egolswil appears for the first time . Around 1300 the community belonged to the Habsburgs and in 1407 it fell to Lucerne. Since 1803, the community has belonged to the then newly established Willisau Office. From 1941 to 1945 there was a notorious internment camp for prisoners of war in Wauwilermoos, southwest of the village. The camp commandant often treated the prisoners in an inhuman way. The camp has been used as a cantonal penal institution since 1949.

politics

Municipal council

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

• Urs Hodel ( CVP ): Mayor
• Josef Mathis ( FDP ): Mayor
• Patricia Huber-Hodel (FDP): Marketing and Environment
• Annelies Schmid-Schärli (CVP): Social and culture
• Willi Geiser (CVP): Education

Cantonal elections

In the 2015 cantonal elections for the Canton of Lucerne, the share of the vote in Egolzwil was: CVP 47.8%, FDP 24.9%, SVP 19.7%, SP 4.1%, GPS 2.3%, glp 1.2%.

National Council elections

In the 2015 Swiss parliamentary elections, the share of the vote in Egolzwil was: CVP 36.9%, SVP 24.9%, FDP 22.6%, SP 5.0%, glp 4.3%, Greens 3.6%, BDP 1, 2%.

economy

Egolzwil used to be a farming village with vegetable growing and peat cutting as their main occupation. Today (as of 2001) only 12.5% ​​of the workforce is active in agriculture (17 farms). 24.2% work in industry and trade - while 63.3% find a livelihood in service occupations. The number of commuters in 2000 was 456 who find work in neighboring communities, in Sursee and the city of Lucerne. But in the same year there were also 211 commuters (mostly from the region).

schools

There is a kindergarten and a primary school in the village. From the 7th grade onwards, schoolchildren have to attend classes in neighboring Wauwil.

traffic

Egolzwil is on the Olten-Lucerne railway line, but still has no stop. The nearest train station is 1.3 km east of the village in Wauwil. The Nebikon train station is also not much further away. Since there is also no bus line to Egolzwil, the village is one of the few settlements in the canton without a connection to public transport. The motorway connections Dagmersellen and Sursee are 6 resp. 9 km away.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Egolzwil

The neo-Gothic village church Herz Jesu , built by August Hardegger in the years 1895/1896, is the structural highlight of the village. One of the scenic highlights is the Egolzwilersee , the last remnant of the once great Wauwilersee. Because of its rare plants in the bank area, it has been under nature protection since 1969.

There is a legend of a castle that used to occupy the Egolzwilersee but was on solid ground. It went down under a curse and was bewitched with murderous underwater eddies.

photos

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  Egolzwilersee

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  Church of Egolzwil

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  Village center of Egolzwil

literature

There is hardly any literature about the place itself. About the Egolzwil culture and the internment camp, however. In many cases, however, articles in specialist journals.

• R. Wyss: The Egolzwiler culture. Swiss National Museum Zurich, 1975.
• J. Stadelmann: Dealing with Strangers in Troubled Times, 1998.

Web links

Commons : Egolzwil  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Egolzwil
• Community profile of the cantonal statistical office (PDF, 122 kB)
• Waltraud Hörsch: Egolzwil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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. ↑ Balance of the permanent resident population according to demographic components, institutional structure, nationality and gender (Federal Statistical Office, STAT-TAB)
4. ↑ LUSTAT: Community profile Egolzwil ( Memento from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Local history on the website of the municipality of Egolzwil
6. ↑ LUSTAT: Community profile Egolzwil ( Memento from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
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 June 3, 2016 .