Cheeks SZ
| SZ is the abbreviation for the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Wangen . |
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 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Schwyz (SZ)
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| District : | March |
| BFS no. : | 1349 |
| Postal code : | 8854 Siebnen 8855 Nuolen 8855 Wangen |
| Coordinates : | 710 408 / 227708 |
| Height : | 424 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 406–630 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 8.46 km² |
| Residents: | 5054 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 597 inhabitants per km² |
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Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship ) |
14.1% (December 31, 2,015) |
| Mayor : | Daniel Hüppin master |
| Website: | www.wangensz.ch |
 Drone image at the Siebnen-Wangen train station with a view towards the village center. |
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Wangen is a municipality in the March district in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland . To cheeks belong nuoles and part of sieves .
coat of arms
- Blue ground, two green hills below, on top of which a golden abbot's staff with a white handkerchief on top. The lake is shown in the blue background and the Buechberg in the green hills. The abbot stands for centuries of association with monasteries.
geography
Wangen lies almost entirely on the flood plain that the Wägitaler Aa formed towards the upper part of Lake Zurich . The Nuoler Ried and Bachtellen nature reserves are also located here .
Towards the eastern boundary of the municipality, the terrain rises towards the Buechberg from 410 m to 631 m. The Buechberg is a moraine of the Linth glacier , which it left behind during its advance during the last ice age.
Only 6.5% of the municipal area is forested, 47% is cultivated land.
population
| Population development | |||||||||||
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| year | 1900 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2016 |
| Residents | 1131 | 2284 | 2550 | 2969 | 2847 | 3411 | 4572 | 4664 | 4672 | 4926 | 4961 |
The Wangner population increased by more than 30% between 1990 and 2000. The proportion of foreigners is 15%.
politics
executive
The municipal council forms the executive branch of the municipality. It is the executive and administrative organ and represents the community externally. The municipal council consists of nine people. The community president and the bag master are elected by the voters for two years each, the other members of the community council have a term of four years. All council members exercise their function in a secondary position.
legislative branch
The municipal assembly forms the legislature and it usually takes place twice.
Parties
The SVP has 53%, the SP 20%, the CVP 12% and the FDP 14% of the vote.
economy
Industrialization began in 1840 when the Billeter spinning mill channeled the Nuolenerbach into power generation, followed by Bachmann silk weaving mill in 1900. Nowadays, the following branches of industry are located in Wangen: woodworking, construction machinery, metal, floor coverings, quarries, gravel works with gravel transport by sea using barges. Only a small part of the working population in Wangen is employed, 69.4% commute to other communities or the greater Zurich area .
traffic
The construction of the cantonal road Lachen –Wangen– Uznach from 1810 onwards divided the community. The Zurich – Ziegelbrücke railway line is inaugurated in 1875. In the 1970s, Wangen was opened up for private transport by the A3 motorway.
The Siebnen-Wangen train station is also served by the Glarner Sprinter .
Postbuses also run through Wangen to Uznach and via Siebnen to Wägital . A bus has also been running to Pfäffikon and Reichenburg for a few years .
The Wangen-Lachen airfield is one of the training grounds for the Patrouille Suisse aerobatic team .
history
The attractive location and good traffic conditions are not only attractive today, but settlers moved to the area around the Buechberg around 3000 years ago . The lake, which is increasingly retreating, offers food in abundance, and the land it frees up is fertile and easy to work with due to the deposition of mineral-rich sediments.
The beech forest on the moraine, which the Linth glacier left behind in the last Ice Age, not only offers prey for the hunters, but also good wood for simple dwellings and fires.
The Romans, otherwise the number one historical factor, did not leave any significant traces in the Wangen area. Sulphurous springs were taken in a thermal bath in the Nuoler Ryffen, but with the onset of the Great Migration around 450 AD, the former world power also had to cede the areas in the March to the immigrating Alemanni and Celts.
In 600 AD the landscape made the acquaintance of the Irish missionaries Columban and Gallus who tried to preach the Gospel in the somewhat radical way of their compatriots . They encounter rejection and enmity and soon afterwards the two Irish are on their way again. Columban to the south, where he founded the famous Bobbio Abbey . Gallus crosses the lake and becomes the canon of the world-famous St. Gallen Abbey. At least the descendants of the monks were compensated for the loss in 844: the owner Wangens, Wolfhart, gave his estate to the Bobbio monastery to inherit, asks in return for relics of the 614 deceased, now canonized Columban, and built a basilica. Columban is still today the patron saint of the Wangner Church. In 872 the property changes hands, but remains in Benedictine hands. The Wangner are now subjects of the St. Gallen monastery . In 1178 Pope Alexander III. the church Nuolen with all courtyard land to the nunnery Schänis. When the latter became impoverished, the monastery sold the property to a private owner, who sold them on for a profit to the “Spital vom Heiligen Geist” in Rapperswil .
After the death of Count Friedrich VII of Toggenburg, who was the secular protector of the areas around the Buechberg, disputes between the Schwyz and Zurich estates broke out into a bloody fratricidal war: the area was finally assigned to the Schwyz in 1437.
As early as 1658 the Wangner had enough of foreign rule. For the sum of 221 kroner and 20 shillings they buy themselves off from the Schwyzers and receive a charter "on eternal quotes". In 1716, Schwyz returned the purchase price to the Wangnern and took over the right of disposal over the church, church lords and possessions of Wangen. 1831–1833 the Ausserschwyzer and with them also the Wangner break away from the not necessarily beloved Schwyz rule for the last time.
The industrial age arrived in the villages on Buechberg around 1840. With the taming of the Nuolerbach in a canal, the Billeter company was able to operate a spinning mill in Nuolen , which Caspar Honegger followed in 1852 with a building in Siebnen and eventually also took over the Nuolen operations. In 1900 the Bachmann silk weaving mill in Wangen was added.
Between 1810 and 1846, Wangen was cut up for the first time with the construction of the new cantonal road . In 1875 the Zurich – Ziegelbrücke railway line was opened in pouring rain. Another serious cut in the meadow landscape took place in 1973/74 with the construction and opening of the A3 .
However, the rural area on the Buechberg has now developed into an attractive agglomeration.
Catholic Church Wangen
Catholic Church Siebnen
Reformed Church Siebnen
religion
There are two churches in the municipality:
- Catholic Church in Wangen
- Catholic Church in Nuolen
There are also two churches in Siebnen ( Schübelbach municipality ):
- Catholic Church in Siebnen
- Reformed church March in Siebnen
education
The community offers a kindergarten in every district, this can be attended from four years and lasts two years. The primary school consists of three school buildings, these are concentrated in the village of Wangen itself and last six years. The high school is located in Lachen and Siebnen and lasts three years. The Nuoler attend the high school in Lachen and the Wangner and Siebner at the MPS Siebnen. The Ausserschwyz canton school with its Pfäffikon SZ and Nuolen locations is available for advanced training at grammar schools.
leisure
The community offers a lot of leisure activities. The multi-purpose hall can be rented for special occasions. The golf park with large parking lots and lots of green areas with 18 holes has been located above the municipality and below the Buechberg in Bachtellen. The Leuholz sports and fitness center with tennis courts and badminton is located outside of Wangen. In Siebnen, the indoor swimming pool is right next to the central school.
There are several clubs in the village, for example the gymnastics club STV Wangen. There is a club in every branch.
health
Wangen has a senior citizen center, which opened in 2007, and a home for the disabled.
The Brunnenhof senior center offers people who are dependent on care and support the opportunity to make their own life worth living and affirming. It has 42 single rooms, a cafeteria and a large dining room.
Arts and Culture
The parish church of St. Columban and the chapel of St. Wendelin are worth seeing.
The natural science collection of the Nuolen Cantonal School , together with the Nuoler Ried nature reserve, is a testimony to the rare flora and fauna in the Ried.
literature
- Linus Birchler : The art monuments of the canton Schwyz, Volume I: The districts of Einsiedeln, Höfe and March. (= Swiss art monuments. Volume 1). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1927.
- Albert Jörger: The art monuments of the canton Schwyz, Volume 2: The district of March. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1989 (Art Monuments of Switzerland, Volume 82). ISBN 3-909158-22-6 . Pp. 482-515.
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Wangen SZ
- Ralf Jacober: Cheeks (SZ). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 4, 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.
- ↑ Numbers / facts. Retrieved May 8, 2018 .
