Nebikon

Nebikon
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Lucerne (LU)
Constituency :	Willisau
BFS no. :	1137
Postal code :	6244
UN / LOCODE :	CH NBK
Coordinates :	640 879  /  227 010 coordinates: 47 ° 11 '34 "  N , 7 ° 58' 41"  O ; CH1903:  640879  /  227.01 thousand
Height :	487  m above sea level M.
Height range :	480–691 m above sea level M.
Area :	3.73  km²
Residents:	2635 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	706 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	27.0% (December 31, 2,015)
Website:	www.nebikon.ch
Location of the municipality

Nebikon is a municipality in the Willisau constituency in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland .

geography

The community lies in the middle part of the Wigger course . The Luthern flows into this in the village from the left . The village is located in the valley floor at the western foot of the Santenberg . A valley has dug itself between the main part of the Santenberg and a southern branch, the Egolzwilerberg . This is appropriately named Graben . The highest point in the municipality is on the wooded Santenberg ( 690  m above sea level ), on the border with Dagmersellen.

In the west of the municipality, in the Flüeggen Forest, the hilly pre-alpine area typical of the Willisau district rises , so that Nebikon is dominated by hills in the west and east.

Of the 372 ha community area, only 38.2% is used for agriculture. The large forest areas on the Santenberg and in the Alpine foothills cover 40.1% of the area. And a fifth (exactly 20.7%) is settlement area, including large industrial zones in the north and south of the village.

The municipality of Nebikon borders Dagmersellen in the northeast, Egolzwil in the southeast, Schötz in the south and Altishofen in the west .

population

Population development
year	Residents
1850	573
1860	513
1888	514
1900	610
1910	713
1950	971
1960	1206
1970	1378
2000	2141

From 1850 to 1860 the population fell sharply (1850-1860: −11.2%). After that, it remained at just over 500 people until 1888. It has been growing continuously since then, although growth has slowed in recent years. There were particularly strong increases in 1888–1900 (+ 18.7%), 1900–1910 (+ 16.9%), 1950–1960 (+ 24.2%) and 1970–2000 (+ 55.3%). Overall, the population has almost quadrupled in the past 150 years.

languages

The population uses a highly Alemannic dialect as colloquial language. In the last census in 2000, 84.45% gave German, 5.18% Serbo-Croatian and 2.01% Albanian as their main language.

Religions - denominations

In earlier times the entire population 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 70.34% Roman Catholic, 8.64% Evangelical Reformed and 5.89% Orthodox Christians. There are also 6.73% Muslims and 3.27% non-denominational. The Muslims are of Albanian, Bosniak, Kurdish and Turkish origin. The strongest group among them are the Albanians. The Orthodox Christians are Slavs from the former Yugoslavia (Macedonians, Montenegrins and Serbs).

Origin - nationality

At the end of 2014, 1,851 of the 2,517 residents were Swiss and 666 (= 26.5%) were foreigners. The population consisted of 73.5% Swiss citizens. At the end of 2014, the foreign residents came from Portugal (27.9%), Serbia including Kosovo (20.7%), Italy (9.2%), Germany (8.6%), Turkey (4.4%) and Spain (0.5%). 19.1% came from the rest of Europe and 9.8 % came from outside Europe.

history

Aerial photo (1957)

Under the name Nevinchova , the place is mentioned for the first time in the list of goods (toboggan) of the Fraumünster Abbey in Zurich in 893. The Habsburgs took over rule in the late 12th century. The place was administered by the Lords of Büttikon . The rulership changed in 1415. The city of Lucerne bought the county of Willisau - to which Nebikon belonged - and made it the Landvogtei Willisau . In 1424 the Lucerne population also acquired the majority of the lower jurisdiction. The situation remained like this until 1798. For the following five years, Nebikon belonged to the Altishofen district - since then to the then newly created Willisau Office .

politics

Municipal council

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

• Reto Steinmann: Mayor, FDP
• Erich Leuenberger: Mayor, FDP
• Gerold Meyer, school administrator, FDP
• Luzia Kneubühler: Social Director, CVP
• André Müller: Treasurer, FDP

Cantonal elections

In the 2015 canton council elections for the canton of Lucerne, the share of the vote in Nebikon was: FDP 47.9%, CVP 28.8%, SVP 15.5%, SP 3.6%, glp 2.1%, GPS 2.0%.

National Council elections

In the 2015 Swiss parliamentary elections, the share of the vote in Nebikon was: FDP 41.0%, SVP 25.2%, CVP 22.4%, SP 4.7%, glp 3.5%, Greens 2.2%, BDP 0, 6%.

traffic

Nebikon is on the Lucerne – Olten railway line and has its own train station. The SBB ticket counter was closed in 2019; Ticket machines and mobile apps are also available for purchasing tickets. Two bus lines connect Nebikon with other places in the region. These are: Nebikon-Schötz-Ebersecken and Ettiswil-Nebikon-Dagmersellen.

Nebikon is on the streets Dagmersellen-Willisau and Dagmersellen-Wauwil-Sursee. The next motorway connection is that of Dagmersellen on the A2, just 3 km away.

Personalities

Nebikon's figurehead is footballer Fabian Lustenberger , who played in the Bundesliga with Hertha BSC until 2019 and is now under contract with BSC Young Boys . The attacking midfielder received his first national team line-up for the qualifying games for Switzerland's 2010 World Cup against Latvia and Greece.

photos

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  The towers of the Egli mill are the landmark of Nebikon

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  Nebikon station

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  Half-timbered house in the center of Nebikon

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  Roundabout

Web links

Commons : Nebikon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Nebikon
• Community profile of the cantonal statistical office (PDF; 112 kB)
• Waltraud Hörsch: Nebikon. 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 Nebikon ( 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 Nebikon ( 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 June 3, 2016 . 
7. ↑ City council of Nebikon is “very disappointed” about the closure of the ticket office. In: tagblatt.ch . May 23, 2019, accessed May 30, 2019 .