Ruswil

Ruswil
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Lucerne (LU)
Constituency :	Sursee
BFS no. :	1098
Postal code :	6017 Ruswil 6019 Sigigen
Coordinates :	652 205  /  214 992 coordinates: 47 ° 5 '2 "  N , 8 ° 7' 34"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and fifty-two thousand two hundred and five  /  two hundred and fourteen thousand nine hundred ninety-two
Height :	637  m above sea level M.
Height range :	518–857 m above sea level M.
Area :	45.25  km²
Residents:	6969 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	154 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	8.3% (December 31, 2,015)
Website:	www.ruswil.ch
Location of the municipality

Ruswil ( Swiss German Rusmu ) is a municipality in the Sursee constituency in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland .

geography

In terms of area, Ruswil is the largest municipality in Lucerne outside of the Entlebuch office . The municipality is located in the hilly landscape between the upper part of the Rottal and the valley of the Kleine Emme . Outside the town center, it includes numerous landscape chambers and hamlets, from Soppensee in the north-west via St. Ulrich to Merzenberg in the north-east, in a south-east direction via Hunkelen to Ziswil and Holz (north of the Kleine Emme), in a west direction to Grofenhusen and in a north-west direction to the Buholz district . The municipality also includes the districts of Rüediswil , which has grown together with the village, Sigigen and Werthenstein-Unterdorf . There are also dozens of smaller settlements and individual farms in the municipal area.

The area is drained by numerous small rivers in the four directions. The Bielbach, which flows south into the Kleine Emme, has the largest share of the community area. The Rotbach flows northwest to the Wigger , several streams such as the Grosse Aa , the Voramstegbach and the stream in the Wartenseetobel to the north into the Sempachersee and thus to the Suhre and the Hellbühler Rotbach finally in an easterly direction into the Reuss .

Ruswil borders the municipalities of Buttisholz , Malters , Menznau , Neuenkirch , Nottwil , Werthenstein and Wolhusen .

population

Population development
year	Residents
1850	4,340
1888	3,905
1910	3,931
1950	4,767
1960	4,657
1970	4,756
1980	4,870
1990	5,546
2000	6'262
2004	6,383
2010	6,603

Around 1850 Ruswil was one of the largest communities in the canton of Lucerne. Nevertheless, it was also affected by the rural exodus in the second half of the 19th century. The population decreased until 1888 (1850–1888: −10.0%). It then remained stable until 1910, before a surge in growth set in until 1950 (1910–1950: +21.3%). After a further phase of stagnation, population growth began in 1980 and continues to this day (1980–2010: +35.6%).

languages

The population uses a highly Alemannic dialect as their everyday language . At the last census in 2000, 95.80% stated German, 0.73% Italian and 0.56% Albanian as their main language.

Religions - denominations

In the past, all residents were members of the Roman Catholic Church. Today (as of 2000) the religious landscape looks like this: There are 83.46% Roman Catholic, 7.59% Evangelical Reformed and 0.26% Orthodox Christians. There are also 2.60% non-denominational and 1.17% Muslim.

origin

At the end of 2014, 6,295 of the 6,812 inhabitants were Swiss and 517 (= 7.6%) were foreigners. The population consisted of 92.4% Swiss citizens. At the end of 2014, the foreign residents came from Germany (22.5%), Portugal (13.5%), Serbia including Kosovo (12.0%), Italy (10.1%), Spain (1.5%) and the Turkey (0.6%). 19.1% came from the rest of Europe and 21.1 % came from outside Europe.

history

Aerial photo (1957)

The first under the name Ruswil in a letter of protection from Pope Gregory IX. The place mentioned in 1233 belonged to the noble lords of Wolhusen until 1299, who then sold it to the Habsburgs . The Lucerne ravaged the village in 1353. Things got even worse for the Ruswil residents a few years later when Ingelram von Coucy wanted to assert his inheritance claim to areas in the Swiss plateau in 1375 and therefore sent his soldiers to Lucerne. These alien warriors were named Gugler because of the shape of their helmets . The Guglers burned down both the village of Ruswil and the district of Rüediswil before they could be stopped.

In the dispute with the Habsburgs, the Lucerne population took the town of Ruswil on June 18, 1386, shortly before the battle of Sempach . The formal assignment by the Habsburgs to Lucerne did not take place until 1405.

In 1512, as a subject of Lucerne, Ruswil received a valuable " Julius banner " from Pope Julius II for the services rendered in the "Great Pavier Campaign" from 1508–1510 to expel the French. Ruswil was also later involved in acts of war, for example in the Onion War in 1513 and in the Peasants' War in 1653 . As a result of the uprising of 1653, Ruswil was obliged by the city to pay a fine of 10,000 guilders. A large ruswil was until the end of the Old Confederation bailiwick .

Although the community became the capital of a Helvetic district after the French invaded in 1798, it offered strong resistance against the new masters. In the so-called Beetle War, government troops were used to suppress the uprising and cause damage in the village. Since 1803 the community belongs to the Sursee office .

In the Rössli tavern, representatives of the conservative people's movement under farmer leader Josef Leu von Ebersol signed the Ruswil Declaration in 1840 , an agreement directed against liberal politics. A little later the Ruswil Association was founded in the Rössli , which is considered the founding association of the Catholic Conservative Party and today's CVP .

From 1942 to 1944 there was an internment camp in the municipality , which housed first French and later German internees.

politics

Municipal council

The Ruswil municipal council consists of five members and is organized as follows:

• Franz-Sepp Erni mayor
• Eugen Amstutz: Social
• Thomas Glanzmann Education
• Rolf Marti: Construction / Infrastructure
• Lotti Stadelmann Eggenschwiler: Finances

Cantonal elections

In the 2015 Cantonal Council elections for the Canton of Lucerne, the share of the vote in Ruswil was: CVP 40.0%, SVP 23.3%, FDP 16.5%, SP 7.3%, Greens 7.3%, glp 4.3%.

National Council elections

In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2019, the share of the vote in Ruswil was: CVP 39.6%, SVP 27.9%, FDP 11.8%, SP 7.8%, Greens 6.4%, glp 4.6%, EPP 1, 2%.

economy

With 195 farms (as of 2017), Ruswil is the third largest farming community in Switzerland. According to the Federal Statistical Office , Ruswil is the municipality with the largest number of cows in Switzerland with 3212 cattle units (as of 2003). In comparison: the municipality with the second highest number of cows is Kirchberg SG with 2,653 cows.

traffic

The Rottalbahn , planned before the First World War , was never implemented. That is why the village of Ruswil is not on any railway line. In the south of the community, however, the Werthenstein train station is on the Ruswil side of the Kleine Emme on the Wolhusen – Lucerne railway line . Ruswil is also well connected to the public transport network by buses. Rottal Auto AG was founded in 1918 and has been operating bus routes since then. The Lucerne-Ruswil-Ettiswil , Sursee-Ruswil and Ruswil-Wolhusen Tropenhaus bus routes run through the community .

Road connections are also good. One of them leads to the nearby Wolhusen. Another to Emmenbrücke (-Luzern) and also to the Ettiswil intersection (to Sursee / Dagmersellen / Willisau). The next motorway connections Sursee and Emmen-Nord on the A 2 are 14 and 17 km away, respectively.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Ruswil

The late baroque parish church of St. Mauritius is one of the largest and most valuable church buildings in the canton of Lucerne. Right next to it is the stately rectory from the 17th century. There are also many small and large chapels around the village with z. T. remarkable features.

gallery

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  Hellbühlerstrasse

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  Catholic Church of St. Mauritius

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  Rectory

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  Village schoolhouse

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  Bärematt schoolhouse

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  Historic inn "Rössli"

Personalities

• Leodegar Keller (1642–1722), land clerk, small councilor and salt director
• Augustin Stöckli (1857–1902), Abbot of Wettingen-Mehrerau
• Joseph Lauber (1864–1952), composer
• Anselm Wütschert (1881–1915), last execution in the canton of Lucerne
• Anna Richli (1884–1954), teacher and writer
• Joseph Grueter (1896–1976), Mission Bishop of Umtata in South Africa

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 .
• Berthe Widmer : Ruswil: History of a Lucerne rural community. Residential community, Ruswil 1987.

Web links

Commons : Ruswil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Ruswil
• Community profile of the cantonal statistical office (PDF, 113 kB)
• Waltraud Hörsch: Ruswil (Vogtei). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Waltraud Hörsch: Ruswil (municipality). 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. ↑ ruswil.ch: Ruswil Online: Municipality in Numbers , accessed on January 26, 2011
4. ↑ ruswil.ch: Ruswil Online: Municipality in Numbers , accessed on January 26, 2011
5. ↑ Balance of the permanent resident population according to demographic components, institutional structure, nationality and gender (Federal Statistical Office, STAT-TAB)
6. ↑ LUSTAT: Community profile Ruswil ( 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. 
7. ↑ Winfried Hecht: The Julius banner of the town facing Rottweil. In: Der Geschichtsfreund: Messages from the Central Switzerland Historical Association . 126/7 (1973/4). doi : 10.5169 / seals-118647
8. ↑ LUSTAT Statistics Lucerne. Retrieved August 1, 2020 . 
9. ^ Federal Statistical Office : NR - Results parties (municipalities) (INT1). In: Federal Elections 2019 | opendata.swiss. August 8, 2019, accessed August 1, 2020 .