Hohenrain

Hohenrain

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton lucerne Lucerne (LU)
Constituency :	Hochdorf
BFS no. :	1032i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	6276 Hohenrain 6277 Kleinwangen 6277 Lieli
UN / LOCODE :	CH HOH
Coordinates :	666 601 / 226005 coordinates: 47 ° 10 '54 " N , 8 ° 19' 2" O ; CH1903: six hundred sixty-six thousand six hundred and one / 22600547.18165 8.3173 606
Height :	606 m above sea level M.
Height range :	463–850 m above sea level M.
Area :	23.23 km²
Residents:	2415 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	104 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	7.5% (December 31, 2,015)
Website:	www.hohenrain.ch
Location of the municipality
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Hohenrain is a municipality in the Hochdorf constituency in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland . On January 1, 2007, the merger with the municipality of Lieli became legally binding. The new municipality is still called Hohenrain .

geography

Hohenrain is in the east, northeast and north of Hochdorf . In addition to the eponymous place Hohenrain, the former municipality Lieli and the districts Ottenhusen, Kleinwangen, Ferren, Güniken and Oberebersol belong to the municipality. There are also other hamlets, groups of houses and individual farmsteads in the municipality.

The village itself is located on a south-west facing slope of the Lindenberg . The hamlet of Günikon ( 580 m above sea level ) is located just north of the village at a distance of 1 km . The Stägbach flows through this settlement . North-northeast of Günikon there is a larger area of forest, the Güniker Tannwald . The hamlet of Oberebersol ( 560 m above sea level ) is located south-east of the village . To the east of Oberebersol lie the Grütwald , the Oberebersolerwald and the Hiltiwald .

Further south on the Hohenrain-Ballwil road is the Ottenhusen district (2 km south-southeast of the village, near Ballwil; 524 m above sea level ). The Tannwald and the Quarry Forest lie on the border with the Canton of Aargau in the east of Ottenhusen . The hamlet of Unterebersol ( 513 m above sea level ) is located near Hochdorf, 1.2 km southwest of Hohenrain .

In the north-west of the municipality is the district of Kleinwangen ( 549 m above sea level ), which consists of the parts Unterdorf, Rütihubel and Oberdorf. Immediately southwest of Kleinwangen is the hamlet of Ferren ( 499 m above sea level ), which today has grown together with the lower village . The Spittlisbach ( towards the Baldeggersee ) flows through both of them . Two other streams flow north of Kleinwangen and Ferren in a south-westerly direction towards the Baldeggersee: the Höhebach and the Scheidbach . Part of the course of the latter forms the municipality boundary with Gelfingen. To the north-east of Kleinwangen-Oberdorf lie the Buchwald and Wanger Tannwald , in which both the Spittlis and the Höhebach arise.

The groups of houses furthest away from the village are Sennenmoos (behind the Chramis forest ; 3.7 km southeast of the village) and Ober-Ilau (3.6 km north of the village). The highest point of the community is in the Lieliwald at 850 m above sea level. M. , the deepest near Baldegg at 472 m above sea level. M.

76.7% of the municipal area of almost 20 km² is used for agriculture. 17.5% are covered with the above-mentioned forests and 5.9% are settlement areas.

In its own canton Hohenrain borders on Ballwil , Hitzkirch and Hochdorf . In the east it borders on the Aargau communities of Abtwil , Auw , Beinwil (Freiamt) and Sins .

Districts

Ottenhusen

St. John's Chapel When the first chapel was built is not known. It is possible that they were created as early as the 17th century, as the historian Konrad Lütolf wrote in History Friends in 1902 . At that time, many chapels were built in central Switzerland. The patronage of John the Baptist goes back to the Johanniterkommende Hohenrain . Until it was assigned to Ballwil around 1812, Ottenhusen belonged to the old parish of Hochdorf. The chapel is first mentioned in the corporation's oldest book. This is an interest book begun in 1762 . On July 19, 1840, the Ottenhusen corporation decided to rebuild the chapel and to assume those costs that were not contributed by benefactors.

population

Population development
year	Residents
1798	1,228
1816	1,741
1850	2,008
1870	1,793
1900	1,685
1920	2,094
1970	2,014
1980	1,929
2000	2,240
2005	2,357
2010	2,365

The number of inhabitants rose sharply from 1798 to 1850 (1798–1850: + 63.5%). Then, in the second half of the 19th century, massive migration to the industrial areas began (1850–1900: −16.1%). This was particularly strong from 1850 to 1870. From 1900 to 1920 there was strong population growth (1900–1920: + 24.3%). Then the number of inhabitants stabilized at 2,000 to 2,100 inhabitants by 1970. It fell slightly again in the 1970s and then rose to an all-time high by the turn of the millennium. Since then the population has fluctuated slightly.

languages

The population uses a highly Alemannic dialect as colloquial language . At the last census in 2000, 95.98% said German, 1.12% Albanian and 0.49% Portuguese were their main languages.

Religions - denominations

In earlier times all residents belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. This has changed as a result of leaving the church and immigration from other regions in Switzerland and abroad. Today (as of 2000) there are 83.21% Roman Catholic and 7.63% Evangelical Reformed Christians. In addition, there are 3.75% non-religious, 1.29% Muslim and 0.67% members of other non-Christian religions (mostly Hindus of Tamil origin). The Muslims are of Albanian, Kurdish and Turkish descent.

Origin - nationality

At the end of 2014, 2,317 of the 2,481 inhabitants were Swiss and 164 (= 6.6%) foreigners. The population consisted of 93.4% Swiss citizens. At the end of 2014, the foreign residents came from Germany (47.0%), Serbia including Kosovo (12.8%), Italy (6.1%) and Portugal . 18.9% came from the rest of Europe and 9.8 % came from outside Europe.

history

Aerial photo (1964)

The Johanniterkommende Hohenrain

As the discovery of a sacrificial depot of 25 swords from the Bronze Age in the Oberillau area shows, the community was settled early on. In Oberebersol skeleton graves were discovered from the La Tene period. There are also numerous Roman sites in the municipality, for example near Ferren, on the Höchi near Kleinwangen and in Ottenhusen, where in 1851 the foundations of a Roman villa etc. a. a bronze statue of the god Mercury (from the time of the emperor Trajan ) was recovered.

In historical times, the district of Ferren is the first to be mentioned by name. In 893 it is listed as the property of the Fraumünster Abbey in Zurich .

The Kommende Hohenrain of the Order of St. John was created around 1175/1180 (first mentioned in 1182/83, the development into a convent with prior must have been completed around 1180). All of today's districts were under the rule of this commander. Until 1413 it was ruled by the Habsburgs. This year a castle rights contract is concluded with the city of Lucerne . Since there was no Commander in Hohenrain from 1523 to 1542, Lucerne exercised sovereignty during this time . In 1798 the commandery came to the Hochdorf district, from 1803 as a municipality to the newly created Hochdorf office . The Kommende was liquidated in 1807 and an institution for the deaf and dumb was set up in the historic buildings in 1847. Today the cantonal curative education center (HPZ) Hohenrain exists here. Significant parts of the medieval building stock from the late 12th and 13th centuries have been preserved to this day.

politics

Municipal council

The Hohenrain Municipal Council consists of six members and is set up as follows:

Alfons Knüsel ( CVP ): Mayor

Markus Vanza (independent): Community clerk

Stephan Egli (CVP): Education, Public Safety

Jörg Muggli ( FDP ): traffic, building police, energy

Brigitte Pfrunder-Rüttimann (CVP): Health, social welfare, guardianship

Fredy Winiger ( SVP ): finance, infrastructure, environmental protection, economics

Cantonal elections

In the 2015 Cantonal Council elections for the Canton of Lucerne, the voter share in Hohenrain was: CVP 38.8%, SVP 32.4%, FDP 12.4%, SP 7.5%, GPS 4.6%, glp 3.0%.

National Council elections

In the Swiss parliamentary elections 2015, the voter share in Hohenrain was: SVP 39.5%, CVP 32.2%, FDP 9.5%, SP 7.4%, glp 4.3%, GPS 4.0%, BDP 1, 0%.

traffic

The community is connected to the public transport network by the Hochdorf – Hohenrain – Hochdorf bus line. The nearest train station is in Hochdorf (on the Lucerne – Lenzburg line ).

Hohenrain is not on any important road connection. From Ballwil a road leads north to Hämikon . There is also a road down to Hochdorf. The closest motorway connections are Sempach 12 kilometers and Emmen-Nord 16 kilometers away. Both are on the A2 .