Meggen LU

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

Meggen

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton lucerne Lucerne (LU)
Constituency :	Lucerne Country
BFS no. :	1063i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	6045
UN / LOCODE :	CH MEG
Coordinates :	671 132 / 211049 coordinates: 47 ° 2 '48 " N , 8 ° 22' 29" O ; CH1903: 671 132 / 21104947.046662 8.374719 477
Height :	477 m above sea level M.
Height range :	433–652 m above sea level M.
Area :	7.27 km²
Residents:	7238 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	996 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	14.8% (December 31, 2,015)
Website:	www.meggen.ch
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Meggen ( Swiss German Megge [mekːə] ) is a municipality in the Lucerne-Land constituency of the canton of Lucerne .

geography

Meggen lies between Lake Lucerne and the Meggerberg. In the east the place borders on the canton of Schwyz . The Meggerberg, which runs southwest-northeast, is covered by the Meggerwald near the ridge. There are no forest areas on the lower slope or the lake. The place consists of several quarters that used to be separate hamlets. In the west of the municipality the most important are the Flossenmatt , the Krusenweid and Lerchenbühl on the lake shore. Above it on the slope are Ebnet, Hochrüti and Schönau . The most important quarters in the village center are Schwerzi, Eiholz, Kreuz and Käppeli . To the east of the village are Grosshusmatt and Letten am See as well as Höfli, Neuhof and Tschädigen on the southern slope of the Meggerberg.

The highest point of the community is at Höchstegg north of Tschädigen at 652 m above sea level. M. , the deepest on Lake Lucerne at 434 m above sea level. M. northwest of Tschädigen is marshland forums moss .

The municipality boundary goes in the east from Lake Lucerne via the Strichmatt to the Gränzetürli (German: Grenztörchen; 618 m above sea level ). There it turns south-west and runs along the northern slope of the Meggerberg to the English cemetery. There it turns south and comes back to Lake Lucerne between Salzfass ( city of Lucerne ) and Siten (municipality of Meggen).

Of the municipal area of 1393 hectares, there are only 726 hectares of land. 47.7% of this is used for agriculture. Another 28.5% is settlement area and 23.7% is covered by forest.

Meggen borders on Adligenswil , the city of Lucerne and the Merlischachen district of Küssnacht .

population

The farming and fishing village grew rapidly between 1798 (1798–1850: +49.4%). After a ten-year stagnation phase, another growth spurt followed. Nevertheless, the place remained a rural community until the end of the Second World War. With the improved traffic conditions in the nearby city of Lucerne and the massive reduction in the tax rate, the population increased rapidly afterwards. Today the municipality of Meggen is a taxable suburb of the city of Lucerne. Due to the high land prices - because of the low taxes - population growth has slowed in recent years.

Sources: 1798–1837: Helvetic and cantonal censuses; Federal Office for statistics; 1850 to 2000 census results, 2010 ESPOP, since 2011 STATPOP

languages

The population uses a highly Alemannic dialect as their everyday language. In the last census in 2000, 93.30% said German , 1.57% English and 1.00% Italian were the main languages.

Religions - denominations

In the past, all residents were members of 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) the religious landscape is as follows: There are 64.85% Roman Catholic, 20.31% Evangelical Reformed, 0.49% Orthodox and 0.25% Free Church Christians. In addition, there are 10.10% non-religious, 0.54% Muslim and 0.49% members of other non-Christian denominations.

Origin - nationality

At the end of 2016, 5,935 of the 7,002 inhabitants were Swiss and 1,067 (= 15.24%) were foreigners. At the end of 2016, the ten most important migration groups came from Germany (429 people; 6.13%), Italy (73 people; 1.04%), the Netherlands (59 people; 0.84%), Great Britain (49 people; 0.70 %), Portugal (45 people; 0.64%), Austria (42 people; 0.60%), Sweden (30 people; 0.43%), Russia (28 people; 0.40%), Denmark and the USA (22 people each; 0.31% each). At the end of 2015, a total of 11.6% of immigrants were of non-European origin.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of Meggen is composed as follows:

Urs Brücker ( glp ): Mayor

HansPeter Hürlimann ( FDP ): Mayor

Daniel Ottiger (independent): Community clerk

Carmen Holdener ( CVP ): School / Leisure / Youth

Olivier Class (FDP): Social Director

Josef Scherer (FDP): Environment and security

Cantonal elections

In the 2015 Cantonal Council elections for the Canton of Lucerne, the share of the vote in Meggen was: FDP 34.4%, SVP 23.9%, CVP 16.4%, glp 11.5%, SP 8.2%, GPS 4.6%.

National Council elections

In the 2015 Swiss parliamentary elections, the share of the vote in Meggen was: FDP 30.1%, SVP 28.2%, CVP 15.4%, SP 11.0%, glp 8.3%, GPS 5.5%, BDP 0, 9%.

traffic

Meggen is on the Lucerne – Immensee railway line and has a train station (Meggen) and a stop (Meggen Zentrum). The S3 line of the Lucerne S-Bahn , which runs from Brunnen to Lucerne, stops at both stations, and the Voralpen-Express also stops in Meggen Zentrum and enables direct connections to Lucerne, Arth-Goldau, Pfäffikon, Rapperswil, Herisau, St Gallen and Romanshorn. Two bus routes make Meggen even better accessible by public transport. These are lines 24 (Lucerne train station - Meggen Tschädigen) and 25 (Lucerne Brüelstrasse - Meggen Piuskirche - Gottlieben) of the Lucerne transport company (VBL).

Meggen is on the Lucerne-Küssnacht SZ road. The closest motorway connections are Küssnacht SZ on the A4, Buchrain on the A14 and Emmen-Süd on the A2.

history

Smaller finds indicate that Meggen was settled very early. First historical mention in 1160 in the Acta Murensia of the Muri monastery . Werner von Habsburg confirms that the monastery controls Meggen. However, part of the village was part of the property of the Benedictine monastery in the courtyard in Lucerne very early on and later fell to the Murbach monastery in Alsace. Despite tax payments from the citizens of Megger to the monastery, the monastery brothers lent the place to the Habsburgs in 1259 . In 1306 Habsburg bought the fief. In 1352 the confederates destroyed the Neuhabsburg fortress built in 1240. The formal rule over Meggen exercised from 1406 on the city of Lucerne. But it was not until 1496 that the Habsburgs waived their rights over Meggen. In the Peasants' War of 1653 Meggen supported the city of Lucerne. Until 1798 Meggen was part of the Habsburg bailiff. It has been part of the Lucerne Office since 1803 . In 1847, at the time of the Sonderbund War , federal government troops marched through Meggen towards Lucerne.

Attractions

Catholic Church of St. Pius, built in 1966

The Neuhabsburg seen from Lake Lucerne

The Catholic Pius Church - a 13 m high cube with a free-standing, 40 m high bell tower - was built in the years 1964–1966 according to the competition design (1960) by Franz Füeg in the style of Mies van der Rohe . Between the uniform grid of gray steel supports there are ocher-colored, translucent marble slabs with a thickness of only 28 mm, through which the interior of the - windowless - church is illuminated.

The manors of Meggenhorn Castle ( Neo-Renaissance ), Neuhabsburg Castle ( Neo-Gothic ) and Saint Charles Hall ( Neo- Baroque ) are the most important buildings in Meggen. They were all built in the 19th century.

Others

The low tax rate compared to the rest of the canton of Lucerne makes the community attractive to wealthier people, the most famous among them was the billionaire Marc Rich , who lived in Meggen until his death in June 2013. Two other billionaires are the German Otto Happel and Pincus Green . This means that two of Switzerland's 35 billionaires still live in Meggen.

The musicians James Galway and Wladimir Aschkenasi , the sculptor Rolf Brem , the gymnast Ariella Kaeslin , the Ring of Honor wrestler Claudio Castagnoli , the ice hockey player Thomas Rüfenacht and the lawyer Mascha Santschi Kallay are other well-known Meggers.

literature

Waltraud Hörsch: Meggen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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 (Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz Volume 116), ISBN 978-3-906131-90-0 , pp. 349–398.