Triengen

Triengen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Lucerne (LU)
Constituency :	Sursee
BFS no. :	1104
Postal code :	6234 Kulmerau 6234 Triengen 6235 Winikon 6236 Wilihof
UN / LOCODE :	CH TNG
Coordinates :	648 250  /  231 883 coordinates: 47 ° 14 '10 "  N , 8 ° 4' 33"  O ; CH1903:  648.25 thousand  /  231883
Height :	518  m above sea level M.
Height range :	474–850 m above sea level M.
Area :	22.09  km²
Residents:	4652 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	211 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	25.8% (December 31, 2,015)
Website:	www.triengen.ch
Aerial photo of Triengen 2008
Location of the municipality

Triengen ( Swiss German [triəŋə] ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Lucerne . It lies in the constituency of Sursee .

geography

Triengen is located in the lower Suhrental a few kilometers northwest of Sursee . 65.1% of the municipal area of ​​2,208 ha is used for agriculture. 22.9% of the municipal area is covered by forest and woodland and 11.6% is settlement area.

Triengen borders the municipalities of Büron , Knutwil , Schlierbach , Dagmersellen and Reiden in the canton of Lucerne and Moosleerau , Reitnau and Schmiedrued in the canton of Aargau .

The highest point is the wooded Fuchshubel, northeast of the village, at 850  m above sea level. M. To the south lies the 800-meter-high lookout Gschweich . The Gsch Weichhütte (former hut of the Triengen ski club) is located there. The lowest point is at 477 m on the Suhre in the direction of Moosleerau.

population

Population development
year	Residents
1745	881
1798	1'563
1816	1,939
1850	1'917
1888	1,442
1910	1,820
1980	2,030
1990	2,588
2000	2,926
2010	4,396
2015	4,511

Triengen's population grew strongly from 1745 to 1850, from 881 to 2,702 inhabitants (old municipality with Kulmerau and Wilihof) (1745-1850: + 206.7%). Without the split off communities, Triengen had the 1,917 inhabitants listed below in 1850 (Wilihof 266 and Kulmerau 519). After that, massive emigration to the industrial areas began by 1888 (1850–1888: −24.8%). Because industry settled after the opening of the Sursee-Triengen-Bahn, the population rose sharply until 1910 (1888–1910: +26.2%). It then grew slightly in waves until 1980 (1910–1980: +11.5%). Since then, an enormous growth spurt has set in, which continues to this day (albeit in a weaker form) (1980–2004: +46.0%).

languages

The population uses a highly Alemannic dialect as colloquial language. At the last census in 2000, 83.63% said German, 5.78% Albanian and 3.35% Portuguese were their main languages.

Religions - denominations

In earlier times, all residents were members of the Roman Catholic Church. Today (as of 2000) there are 72.90% Roman Catholic , 8.95% Evangelical Reformed and 1.81% Orthodox Christians . There are also 9.47% Muslims and 2.56% non-denominational. The majority of Muslims are of Albanian origin; also Turks, Kurds and Bosniaks. The Orthodox are almost exclusively Serbs and Montenegrins.

Origin - nationality

At the end of 2014, of the 4,462 inhabitants, 3,367 were Swiss and 1,095 (= 24.5%) were foreigners. The population consisted of 75.5% Swiss citizens. At the end of 2014, the foreign residents came from Serbia including Kosovo (42.0%), Portugal (15.3%), Germany (12.9%), Italy (7.3%), Turkey (3.7%) and Spain (0.5%). 12.4% came from the rest of Europe and 6.0 % came from outside Europe.

history

Aerial photo (1953)

As finds from the Paleolithic, Roman times and Alemannic tombs prove, the place has a long history as a settlement. The place Triingin is mentioned for the first time by name in the oldest property book of the Engelberg monastery , which dates from the years 1184/1190. The interpretation of the name is not completely clear. It is probably based on the Old High German personal name Triwa, Triuwo ; the Ahd. basic form to be developed * Triwingun would mean "with the people, with the tribe of Triwa or Triuwo".

The lords of Büron and their descendants, the barons of Aarburg , exercised the regency. From the Lenzburgers to the Zähringers to the Habsburgs , all the important families in the region were once masters of Triengen. Under the Habsburgs, the place belonged to the county of Willisau, which was bought in 1407 by the up-and-coming city of Lucerne . In 1455, Lucerne also secured lower jurisdiction.

Triengen was part of the Büron-Triengen Landvogtei until 1798. After that, the place belonged to the Sursee district until 1803 and then to the Sursee district , until it lost its existence as an administrative unit with the Lucerne constitution of 2007. Today Triengen belongs to the constituency Sursee and the judicial district Willisau.

On January 1, 2005, the former communities Wilihof and Kulmerau Triengen joined. On January 1, 2009, the former municipality of Winikon Triengen joined. The Fusionsweg is a hiking trail opened in 2019, which runs along the common border of the then merged municipalities and is 29.5 kilometers long.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Triengen

photos

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  Catholic Church of St. Laurentius

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  Village schoolhouse

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  Hofacker school complex

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  Gasthaus Rössli

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  Former Station of the ST

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  Triengen center

politics

Municipal council

The Triengen municipal council consists of five members and is set up as follows during the 2016–2020 legislative period:

• Buob René: Mayor
• Guido Obrist: Community clerk
• René Kaufmann-Häfliger: Finances
• Isabelle Kunz: Social & Culture
• Annamaria Muff: Education
• Daniel Schmid: Construction & Environment

Cantonal elections

In the 2015 cantonal elections for the canton of Lucerne, the share of the vote in Triengen was: FDP 34.7%, CVP 25.8%, SVP 25.8%, SP 6.7%, glp 3.0%, GPS 2.6%.

National Council elections

In the 2015 Swiss parliamentary elections, the share of the vote in Triengen was: SVP 32.8%, CVP 24.5%, FDP 24.5%, SP 6.9%, Greens 4.5%, glp 3.7%, BDP 1, 9%.

economy

The Trisa AG is a major player in the community. The manufacturer of toothbrushes and other oral hygiene articles was founded in 1887 and in 2007 employed 981 people in the group, mostly from the Suhrental region .

traffic

Triengen is on the Sursee – Schöftland road. The next motorway connection Sursee on the A2 is 7 km and the motorway connection Aarau-West on the A1 is 13 km away. The former cross connection Wilihof – Triengen – Kulmerau no longer exists today.

Since 1972 the community has been connected to the public transport network via a bus service. Before that, the Sursee-Triengen-Bahn was responsible for passenger traffic; Today this train, which was never electrified, is only used for regional freight traffic and nostalgic steam trips.

The small Triengen airfield ( ICAO code LSPN ), known as the Triengen Flying Ranch, is located on the Suhre plain .

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Panorama of Triengen at night 2008

Personalities

• Vinzenz Huber (1821–1877), politician, Councilor of the Canton of Lucerne, member of the National Council
• Xaver Arnold (1848–1929), sculptor, created 20 gravestones in Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery in collaboration with the first cemetery director there, Wilhelm Cordes
• Emil Fischer (1868–1954), entomologist and doctor, honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich
• Ludwig Fischer (1877–1962), teacher and author of the "Lucerne German Grammar"

literature

• Walter Frey: Triengen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Walter Frey: Kulmerau. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Adolf Reinle : The art monuments of the canton of Lucerne. Volume IV: The Sursee Office (=  Swiss Art Monuments. Volume 35). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1956, ISBN 978-3-906131-23-8 .

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Triengen
• Community profile of the cantonal statistical office (PDF; 107 KB)

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. ^ Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland , Volume V 1b.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 883.
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 Triengen ( 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. ↑ LUSTAT: Community profile Triengen ( 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. 
8. ↑ 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 .