Geuensee

Geuensee
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Lucerne (LU)
Constituency :	Sursee
BFS no. :	1085
Postal code :	6232
Coordinates :	650.64 thousand  /  227888 coordinates: 47 ° 12 '0 "  N , 8 ° 6' 25"  O ; CH1903:  650640  /  227888
Height :	511  m above sea level M.
Height range :	485–855 m above sea level M.
Area :	6.47  km²
Residents:	2942 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	455 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	22.0% (December 31, 2,015)
Website:	www.geuensee.ch
Location of the municipality

Geuensee is a municipality in the Sursee constituency in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland .

geography

The community is located north of Sursee on the eastern edge of the Surental valley. Krumbach ( 690  m above sea level ) 1.8 km northeast and Hunzikon ( 729  m above sea level ) 1.5 km east of Dorfs are hamlets that lie within the boundaries of the municipality of Geuensee. The Dorfbach rises near Krumbach and flows through the Krumbachertobel and the village and joins the Suhre at Moos to the west. Almost three quarters (74.5%) of the 643 ha municipal area are used for agriculture. The settlement area comprises 10.3% and forest and wood 15.1% of the municipal area.

The neighboring communities of Geuensee are Beromünster , Büron , Knutwil , Rickenbach LU , Schenkon , Schlierbach and Sursee .

population

Population development
year	Residents
1850	770
1900	517
1960	737
1970	969
1980	1,202
1990	1,762
2000	1,946
2010	2,406
2015	2,843

The population fell significantly from 1850 to 1900 by 32.8%. Between 1920 and 1960 it gradually grew back to its original size. Since then there has been constant strong growth.

languages

The population speaks a highly Alemannic dialect. At the last census in 2000, 85.87% of the population stated German, 5.70% Albanian and 2.72% Serbo-Croatian as their main / everyday language.

Religions - denominations

The population was originally purely Roman Catholic. Today (as of 2000) 68.86% are Roman Catholic, 10.43% Evangelical Reformed and 4.62% Orthodox Christians. There are also 7.81% Muslims, 3.70% non-denominational and 0.62% Hindus. The Muslims are almost exclusively Albanians from Kosovo and Macedonia as well as Turks and Kurds. The majority of the Orthodox are Serbs and Montenegrins. The Hindus are Tamils ​​from Sri Lanka.

Origin - nationality

At the end of 2014, of the 2,750 inhabitants, 2,171 were Swiss and 579 (= 21.0%) were foreigners. The population consisted of 79.0% Swiss citizens. At the end of 2014, the foreign residents came from Serbia including Kosovo (37.8%), Germany (13.8%), Turkey (9.7%), Italy (8.5%), Portugal (6.9%) and Spain (1.4%). 16.4% came from the rest of Europe and 5.5 % came from outside Europe.

history

Aerial photo (1954)

The community is under the name Geinwison in Urbar listed the Einsiedeln monastery in the years 1217/1222. It later belonged to the office of Sempach of the Habsburgs and was administered by the Lords of Aarburg. In 1424 Thuringia of Aarburg pledged Geuensee to the city of Lucerne , in 1429 he sold the place to it. As early as 1386, after the Battle of Sempach , Lucerne had gained more and more influence at the expense of the Habsburgs. The community was now administered as an exclave of the Landvogtei Rothenburg until 1798, then came to the Helvetic district of Sursee and in 1803 to the then newly created Office Sursee .

On May 16, 1914, Anselm Wütschert murdered 20-year-old Emilie Furrer in the Hölzliwald near the hamlet of Krumbach and sexually assaulted her body. As a result, he was the last person in the canton of Lucerne to be sentenced to death in a civil criminal process and executed .

politics

Municipal council

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

• Hansruedi Estermann (CVP): Mayor, finances
• Alexandra Stocker (CVP): Health and Social Affairs
• Pirmin Schmidlin (independent): Economy and security, culture
• Angelo Petteruti (FDP): Environment, real estate
• Beatrice Cozzio-Kämpf (independent): Education

Cantonal elections

In the 2015 cantonal elections in the Canton of Lucerne, the share of the vote in Geuensee was: CVP 31.8%, SVP 26.8%, FDP 15.7%, SP 10.3%, glp 9.8%, Greens 5.2%, BDP 0.4%.

In the 2019 Cantonal Council elections in the Canton of Lucerne, the share of the vote in Geuensee was: CVP 26.0%, SVP 21.7%, FDP 14.7%, SP 14.2%, Greens 11.6%, glp 10.2%, EVP 1.3%, BDP 0.3%.

National Council elections

In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2015, the share of the vote in Geuensee was: SVP 29.7%, CVP 22.5%, FDP 17.3%, SP 11.7%, glp 8.4%, Greens 7.7%, BDP 1, 3%.

Community meeting

On the occasion of the community assembly on May 15, 2015, a vote was taken on the initiative launched by the SVP local party, which the community assembly attempted to abolish. With 136 voters, the SVP failed to achieve a majority with 22 votes in favor. The motion for a ballot box on this business also received only 22 votes out of 55 required votes (2/5 of those present according to the regulations). The community meeting will therefore continue to exist.

traffic

Geuensee is connected to the public transport network by the two post bus lines Sursee-Schöftland and Sursee-Etzelwil. Sursee is an important train station with express train stops on the Lucerne-Olten and (since 2004) Lucerne-Bern (via the Aarburger Loop).

The place is on the main road from Sursee to Schöftland (and on to Aarau). The closest motorway connection Sursee to the A2 motorway is 3 km away.

economy

The Robert Fellmann Jodellieder-Verlag is based in Geuensee.

Hochweidwald transmission tower

Transmitter Geuensee Höchweidwald

76 meter high transmission tower in steel framework construction in the high pasture forest at 47 ° 12 '13 "north latitude and 8 ° 08' 31" east longitude. The radio program of Radio Pilatus is broadcast from this tower on 104.4 MHz with 250 W ERP (masking in the north-east direction) by an antenna located at a height of 61 meters. He also carries cell phone antennas from Sunrise and transmission antennas for DAB and DVB-T.

Personalities

• Franz Stadelmann (* 1954), ethnologist, development worker and author
• Michael Schär (* 1986), racing cyclist

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Geuensee

literature

• Adolf Reinle : The Art Monuments of the Canton of Lucerne, Volume IV: The Sursee Office. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 35). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1956, ISBN 978-3-906131-23-8 .

Web links

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

• Official website of the community of Geuensee
• Community profile of the cantonal statistical office (PDF, 114 kB)
• Walter Frey: Geuensee. 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 according to nationality category, gender and municipality ( memento of the original from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (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 Geuensee ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ LUSTAT: Community profile Geuensee ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ 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 .