Mauensee LU

LU is the abbreviation for the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries in the name Mauensee .

Mauensee
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Lucerne (LU)
Constituency :	Sursee
BFS no. :	1091
Postal code :	6212 (Kaltbach) 6216 (Mauensee)
Coordinates :	647 554  /  224249 coordinates: 47 ° 10 '3 "  N , 8 ° 3' 57"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred forty-seven thousand five hundred and fifty-four  /  224249
Height :	522  m above sea level M.
Height range :	499–686 m above sea level M.
Area :	7.22  km²
Residents:	1458 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	202 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	9.4% (December 31, 2,015)
Website:	www.mauensee.ch
Location of the municipality

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

geography

The village is located west of Sursee on the eastern edge of the Wauwilermoos . The municipality includes the hamlet of Kaltbach ( 521  m above sea level ), which lies between St. Erhard (municipality of Knutwil ) and Wauwil , north of Mauensee-Dorf, and the hamlet of Bognau ( 517  m above sea level ) in the east, the has grown together with Sursee. The Mauensee with the Mauensee Castle is also located within the municipality .

The municipality covers an area of ​​7.17 km² without a lake, of which 17.2% is wooded area (ie forest and wood), 68.5% is used for agriculture and 6.8% is used as settlement area.

Mauensee borders in the north-west on Dagmersellen , in the north on Knutwil , in the north-east on Sursee , in the south-east on Oberkirch , in the south on Grosswangen , in the south-west on Ettiswil and in the west on Wauwil .

population

Population development
year	Residents
1850	632
1860	655
1870	562
1880	601
1900	608
1930	609
1941	649
1950	637
1980	550
1990	732
2000	958
2004	1,086
2014	1'213

The population rose slightly until 1860, and fell sharply in the 19th century (1860–1870: −14.2%). After a slight growth spurt until 1880, two decades of stagnation followed. After going up and down, the community had the same number of inhabitants in 1930 as at the turn of the century. After a small interim high up to 1941, there was an exodus to the historic low in 1980. Due to the beautiful location near the regional center and the proximity to the motorway, the population has been growing continuously and strongly since then. It has doubled in a quarter of a century (1980–2004: +97.5%).

languages

The population uses a highly Alemannic dialect as their everyday language. At the last census in 2000, 96.14% said German and 1.04% each Albanian and Serbo-Croatian as their main language.

Religions - denominations

In the past, all residents were members of the Roman Catholic Church. Today the religious situation is as follows: There are 83.09% Roman Catholic, 9.92% Evangelical Reformed and 0.42% Orthodox Christians. In addition, there are 4.59% non-denominational and 0.52% Muslim (as of 2000).

Origin - nationality

At the end of 2014, 1,154 of the 1,271 inhabitants were Swiss and 117 (= 9.2%) were foreigners. The population consisted of 90.8% Swiss citizens. At the end of 2014, the foreign residents came from Germany (34.2%), Serbia including Kosovo (17.9%), Italy (9.4%), Turkey (6.0%), Portugal (2.6%) and Spain (2.6%). 18.8% came from the rest of Europe and 8.5% were of non-European origin.

history

Aerial photo (1953)

Main street of Mauensee

Moginse is listed in the oldest register of Engelberg Monastery from the years 1184/1190. The lake belonged partly to the barons of Grünenberg and partly to the barons of Aarburg . The troops of the city of Lucerne destroyed the castle on the island in the Mauensee in 1388. The area fell to Lucerne in 1407. In 1455, Lucerne bought the Aarburg and Zofingian part of the Mauensee and thus made its claims to power even more asserted. In 1605 the Pfyffer family had today's castle built. Until 1798 the place was part of the Landvogtei Knutwil. Then it belonged to the Sursee district and since 1803 to the Sursee office . Mauensee only became an independent municipality in 1818 when it was separated from Knutwil. A merger with neighboring communities is not currently planned, but it belongs to the Sursee 2000+ regional council , in which the communities around Sursee promote closer cooperation among the member communities.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Mauensee LU

politics

Municipal council

The Mauensee municipal council for the 2016-2020 legislative period consists of five members and is set up as follows:

• Esther Zeilinger, mayor
• Michael Gisler, Chief Financial Officer
• Priska Häfliger, social director
• Daniela Basile, site manager
• Markus Dobmann, Head of Education

Cantonal elections

In the 2015 Cantonal Council elections for the Canton of Lucerne, the share of the vote in Mauensee was: CVP 31.1%, SVP 24.7%, FDP 18.7%, SP 12.6%, glp 6.4%, GPS 5.3%.

National Council elections

In the Swiss parliamentary elections 2015, the share of the vote in Mauensee was: SVP 27.2%, CVP 27.0%, FDP 19.3%, SP 10.5%, Greens 7.0%, glp 6.3%, BDP 1, 1 %.

traffic

Mauensee is connected to the public transport network by the Sursee – Willisau bus line. There are railway lines at both endpoints. Willisau is on the Lucerne-Langenthal line and Sursee on the Olten-Lucerne railway line . The important road from Sursee to Willisau leads through Mauensee. The next motorway junction Sursee on the A2 is 5 km away.

Ownership of Mauensee Castle

Mauensee Castle, owned by the art collector Uli Sigg since 1998

• 1275 Mauensee castle and rule belonged to the Counts of Habsburg and Barons of Grünenberg.
• 1388 After the Sempach War, the Confederates destroyed the castle on the island
• 1455 Lucerne becomes the owner of the estate
• 1457 Mauensee goes to the Surseer Schultheissen family Schnyder von Wartensee and then to the Lucerne council family Pfyffer von Altishofen
• 1605 Kaspar Pfyffer had the present castle built by his son-in-law Schnyder.
• In 1657 it belonged to the Lucerne patrician Cloos families, the most important porters of the rule in the 17th century.
• In 1721 the Cloos sold the rule of Mauensee to Count Rudolf Riva
• 1807 Mauensee belonged to the Pfyffer von Altishofen again for a short time
• In 1811 Mauensee came to the Eggstein family from Zofingen, who had the chapel, corner towers and surrounding wall demolished
• In 1846, Jost Bernhard Segesser von Brunegg (1814–1880) acquired Mauensee from Rosine Eggstein b. Hunkeler
• 1875 From the Segesser von Brunegg, Mauensee came into the possession of Auguste de Pourtalès von Neuchâtel
• 1942 With Karl von Schumacher , the founder of the weekly newspaper Die Weltwoche , a patrician family from Lucerne was again the owner
• 1957 After his death, his brother Pierre von Schumacher lived at the castle
• 1964 Mauensee Castle remains in the possession of his widow
• In 1995 the sisters Denyse von Streng-de Wolff and Alix Schnyder von Wartensee-de Wolff inherited it
• In 1998 the Sigg family of industrialists bought and renovated it .

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 : Mauensee  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Mauensee
• Community profile of the cantonal statistical office (PDF, 121 kB)
• Walter Frey: Mauensee LU. 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 Mauensee ( 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 Mauensee ( 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 .