Greppen
| Greppen | |
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| State : |
 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Lucerne (LU)
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| Constituency : | Lucerne Country |
| BFS no. : | 1056 |
| Postal code : | 6404 |
| Coordinates : | 675 299 / 212058 |
| Height : | 447 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 433–1375 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 3.32 km² |
| Residents: | 1118 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 337 inhabitants per km² |
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Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship ) |
15.6% (December 31, 2,015) |
| Website: | www.greppen.ch |
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Greppen is a municipality in the Lucerne-Land constituency in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland .
This exclave , consisting of the three lakeside communities of Greppen, Weggis and Vitznau , is separated from the rest of the administrative area by Lake Lucerne .
geography
Greppen is located on Lake Lucerne , on the eastern bank of the Küssnachter Arm at the foot of the Rigi . Greppen extends from Lake Lucerne to the western slope of the Rigi to below Rigi-Staffel ( 1400 m above sea level ). There are only 330 hectares of land in the municipality, the rest is part of the lake. Of the land area, 50.9% is used for agriculture, 39.7% is forest and wood and only 9.4% is settlement area. The Breitenacherried area is under nature protection.
The community stretches along the Rigifuss along the road from Küssnacht towards Schwyz, gradually rising. Many new access roads gradually sprawl the local agricultural areas and slopes.
Greppen borders on Weggis and Küssnacht in the canton of Schwyz . Indirectly, in the lake, also on Meggen . The place benefits from its location in the triangle of the neighboring cantons of Lucerne and its proximity to Zug and Zurich .
coat of arms
Red bar over white field with two blue diagonal bars
population
Population development
In 1798 there were 240 inhabitants. The population grew by 1860 (1798–1860: + 23.8%). Then it fell to its historical low in two steps by 1900. In the next 20 years, tourism grew rapidly (1900–1920: +51.8%). The number of residents stagnated until 1980. Since then, the population has been growing rapidly thanks to better transport connections, the mild climate and the proximity to Lucerne and Küssnacht SZ (1980–2011: +192.6%). Since 2011 the number of inhabitants has consistently been slightly more than 1000 people. There are now 1,036 people living in Greppen (as of December 31, 2015), including 524 men and 512 women.
Sources: 1798–1837: Helvetic and cantonal censuses; Federal Office for statistics; 1850 to 2000 census results, 2010 ESPOP, since 2011 STATPOP
languages
94.03% of the population speaks (as of 2000) German as their main language. Smaller language minorities are the 1.30% people speaking English and 0.91% speaking French.
Religions - denominations
The population is traditionally Catholic . The situation today (as of 2000) is as follows: 65.97% are Roman Catholic, 19.87% Evangelical Reformed, 1.04% Orthodox and 0.52% Christian Catholic. Non-Christian minorities are 8.44% non-denominational and 1.30% Muslim.
Origin - nationality
At the end of 2016, 875 of the 1052 inhabitants were Swiss and 177 foreigners (16.83%). At the end of 2016, the largest migration groups came from Germany (68 people; 6.46%), Italy (20 people; 1.90%), Portugal (10 people; 0.95%), Great Britain (9 people; 0.86%) , Turkey (6 people; 0.57%) and the Netherlands (5 people; 0.48%). At the end of 2015, a total of 8.6% of immigrants were of non-European origin.
history
Greppen essentially shared the history of the neighboring village of Weggis. It belonged to the Habsburgs and in 1406 it was bought by Lucerne as part of the Neuhabsburg bailiwick . In 1803 it was assigned to the Office of Lucerne.
- 1259 Greppen appears for the first time in documents with Henricus de Crepon
- 1352 Lucerne's war tax list contains 51 people from Küssnacht and Greppen
- 1385 Lucerne accepts 17 men from Greppen as citizens
- 1406 Lucerne buys the Habsburg office, including Greppen
- 1488 Under the master builder Hans Felder, Greppen receives a Gothic Wendelin church
- 1545 First mention of a mill, shut down around 1885
- 1573 Grepper tuff stones are built into today's government building in Lucerne
- 1627 Establishment of the St. Wendelin Brotherhood, which still exists today
- 1634 Greppen becomes a chaplain and thus receives a permanent priest
- 1636 Construction of a beneficiary house, today a rectory
- 1645 The Gothic chapel has to give way to a new church
- 1647 The Bishop of Konstanz inaugurates today's St. Wendelin Church
- 1659 Jakob Greter receives tavern rights, today's St. Wendelin tavern sign
- 1684 Four groups make a pilgrimage to Rome and bring home relics of St. Felix
- 1760 Only now do St. Wendelin particles enter the church in Greppen
- 1798 The Swiss freedom tree in the village of Greppen is knocked down by Schwyzers
- 1802 Grepper contribute to the overthrow of the Helvetic constitution
- 1809 The first schoolhouse is built as an extension to the hospital building
- 1819/20 Greppen and Vitznau help build a Rigiweg in Weggis
- 1820 Purchase of the first fire engine for two doubloons
- 1825 Construction of a ship's hut where the rifle house is today
- 1834 A rifle club is formed in Greppen, revived in 1850 and 1889
- 1837 The first steamship travels across Lake Lucerne
- 1840 Oldest known fire, house and barn in the Bühlhof
- 1845 A Grepper is found among the captured troops
- 1847 Because of the Sonderbund, Greppen also receives federal military
- 1848 The first mail deposit box comes into the Steinmatt-Haus
- 1869 With the ship bridge, Greppen is connected to steam shipping
- 1870 Greppen opens its own Rigistrasse to Rigi-Känzeli
- 1874 Railway project through Greppen (Lake Zurich – Gotthard Railway)
- 1875 Melchior Greter receives innkeeping rights on Neuhaus, today Gasthaus Rigi / Drei Eidgenossen
- 1876 The church receives today's four bells, which weigh a total of 1847 kg
- 1891 The Zimmermann family takes over the sawmill on the lake
- 1893 For the first time, elections are held using an urn
- 1897 The telephone arrives in the village of the St. Wendelin Inn
- 1900 The dairy cooperative builds a dairy, today the Hegglin family
- 1910 Electric light finds its way into the community
- 1910 New school building on the old square, today the parish hall
- 1913–17 Director Gebhard Kupferschmid runs a men's home on Langrieden
- 1919 The truck from the Zimmermann sawmill is the first car in the village
- 1920 A rifle house was built in place of the ship's hats
- 1921 The comprehensive school is divided into an upper and a lower school
- 1932 The new cantonal road is built above the village, traffic no longer runs through the village
- 1932 The Küssnacht-Greppen-Weggis bus route begins operations
- 1933 Major fire in the sawmill
- 1934 Very large flooding through the Rubibach
- 1946 The farm servants make a pilgrimage to Greppen for the first time, every year since then
- 1947 The corporation builds the Bühlwäldli-Altschwändi cable car, dismantled in 1984
- 1962 Anton Greter builds a new post office
- 1962 The municipal water supply is put into operation
- 1970 New school building with gym on Kapellmatt
- 1971 The wooden bus hut has to give way to a standard building
- 1974 Greppen elects the first female parish clerk in the canton of Lucerne
- 1976 Construction begins with the Chriesbaumhof development
- 1980 Start of the outpatient health services of the lakeside communities, called Spitex since 1991
- 1981 Development of building land in Sagirain
- 1981 Start of the development in the upper house (above the canton road)
- 1982 Development of building land in Kleinrieden
- 1984 The regional age center Hofmatt in Weggis starts operations
- 1990 The old custom of caroling is reintroduced
- 1994 Storm damage in Oberfeld, Kleinhaus and Anger
- 1995 The oldest Lucerne woman, Marie Greter, dies in Greppen at the age of 107
- 1995 The fire brigade receives an on-call vehicle
- 1996 A woman is elected to the local council for the first time
- 1996 Elaboration of a general water supply project (GWP)
- 1996 Rejection of the tax increase from 2.1 to 2.3 units
- 1997 Introduction of a round table (exchange of ideas between authorities and citizens)
- 1998 The tax offices Greppen and Weggis are merged
- 2002 The 300 meter shooting across the water at the rifle house is discontinued for environmental reasons
politics
Municipal council
The Greppen municipal council consists of five part-time members and is set up as follows:
- Claudia Bernasconi ( CVP ): Mayor; Presidential Department
- Franz Gisler ( SVP ): Mayor; Infrastructure department
- Roger Augsburger (IGG): Social Affairs
- Markus Kron (CVP): Finance and Tax Department
- Silvio Rapelli (IGG): Education department
Cantonal elections
In the 2015 cantonal elections for the Canton of Lucerne, the share of the vote in Greppen was: SVP 30.9%, CVP 30.0%, FDP 18.8%, glp 8.3%, SP 5.9%, GPS 4.9%.
National Council elections
In the 2015 Swiss parliamentary elections, the share of the vote in Greppen was: SVP 30.4%, CVP 20.0%, FDP 19.1%, SP 9.9%, glp 9.4%, GPS 5.6%, BDP 1, 0%.
Fusion project of the Lucerne Rigi communities
The three Lucerne Rigi communities of Greppen, Weggis and Vitznau have loosely examined a merger in the past, as they are already working together on many issues. The merger project (possibly under the name of the municipality of Rigi) was postponed indefinitely in 2005 because all three municipalities are financially sound and therefore there is no immediate need for action.
economy
The people of Greppen found their livelihood early on in various professions. Traditionally, livestock and alpine farming and fishing dominated - but chestnut groves were also grown in Greppen (mild climate) and tufa mined. Today there are still 17 farms. Nevertheless, the number of people working in agriculture and fishing is at (2000) 32.9%, well above average. 32.4% find their livelihood in industry and trade; in service occupations 34.7%. The silk and linen weaving that was widespread in the 19th century has disappeared. Larger employers are companies in the catering industry, (moderate) tourism, a sawmill , the pharmaceutical and construction industries. The commuter balance speaks a clear picture. There are 40 commuters (as of 2000) compared to 280 commuters (out of a total of 421 employees) (26.8% to the canton of Schwyz, 20.7% to the canton of Zug, 12.9% to Lucerne and 11.4% to the neighboring municipality of Weggis ).
tourism
Since various projects such as the routing of the Lake Zurich – Gotthard Railway along the Rigi and the construction of a railway from Greppen to the Rigi came to nothing, tourism in Greppen is not as important as in nearby communities.
traffic
Greppen has owned a ship station for the Lake Lucerne Shipping Company (SGV) since 1869 . It is on the Küssnacht-Hertenstein / Weggis-Lucerne course.
The SGV bus service from Küssnacht towards Weggis (–Gersau – Brunnen) started in 1932. The bus route Küssnacht (train station) –Weggis – Vitznau – Gersau – Brunnen (train station) is more important for public transport. The closest train station is in Küssnacht on the Lucerne – Arth-Goldau railway line , and Brunnen station on the Gotthard line .
The motorway connection to the A4 in Küssnacht, 5 km away , brought a further improvement in the transport system and a strong increase in population.
schools
There has been a village school in Greppen since 1809, which children attend from kindergarten to 6th primary school. From the 7th grade onwards, the children attend school in the neighboring village of Weggis (secondary) or the cantonal school in Lucerne and the grammar school in Immensee. School care president is (not on the municipal council) Roger Augsburger.
Apprentices based in Greppen
| School year (2016/2017) |
kindergarten | Primary school | Secondary school, all levels |
Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departments | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Learners | 0 | 99 | 0 | 99 |
from the community and neighboring communities; Source LUSTAT
Apprentices residing in Greppen
| School year (2015/2016) |
kindergarten | Basic level | Primary school | Secondary school, level A / B |
Secondary school, level C |
Integrated secondary school |
Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Learners | 0 | 41 | 59 | 22nd | 8th | 3 | 133 |
resident in the municipality; Source LUSTAT
Attractions
In the 14th century St. Wendelin was worshiped . A village chapel St. Wendelin was built in 1483/85, which had to give way to the parish church of St. Wendelin in 1645/47. A pilgrimage to Greppen takes place on October 20th.
Due to the relatively intact village image of the Greppen town center (from the lake side over the Wendelinsmatte) it is still part of the inventory of places worth protecting .
photos
literature
- J. Muheim-Büeler, J. Studhalter: Greppen . 1997.
- Barbara Hennig, André Meyer: The Art Monuments of the Canton of Lucerne, Volume II: The Office of Lucerne. The rural communities. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2009 (Art Monuments of Switzerland, Volume 116). ISBN 978-3-906131-90-0 . Pp. 129-143.
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Greppen
- Community profile of the cantonal statistical office (PDF, 125 kB)
- Waltraud Hörsch: Greppen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Source: Robert Gubler, Population Development and Economic Changes in the Canton of Lucerne, Conclusion Table 1
- ↑ Balance of the permanent resident population according to demographic components, institutional structure and nationality (Federal Statistical Office, STAT-TAB)
- ^ LUSTAT: Community profile Greppen
- ↑ LUSTAT: Community profile Greppen ( 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.
- ↑ 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 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Number of classes and learners
- ^ LUSTAT, page 239
