Wikon

Wikon
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Lucerne (LU)
Constituency :	Willisau
BFS no. :	1147
Postal code :	4806
Coordinates :	639 901  /  234817 coordinates: 47 ° 15 '47 "  N , 7 ° 57' 57"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and one  /  234817
Height :	447  m above sea level M.
Height range :	435–665 m above sea level M.
Area :	8.28  km²
Residents:	1529 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	185 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	15.2% (December 31, 2,015)
Website:	www.wikon.ch
Location of the municipality

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

geography

Wiigge , as the locals call the community, is located south of Zofingen between the Wigger in the west and the Uerke in the east. Except in the south, the municipality always borders on the neighboring canton of Aargau. Four of the six main settlements are on the Wigglertal plain. In addition to Wikon-Dorf, these are Adelboden 1.1 km to the north ( 439  m above sea level ), Rotfarb ( 436  m above sea level ; 1.7 km northwest of the village) and the area west of the village at the Brittnau station -Wikon, which has grown together with Wikon-Dorf. Wikon-Oberdorf ( 495  m above sea level ; 600 m east of the village) and the small hamlet Moosersagi ( 533  m above sea level ; 2.6 km northeast of the village) on the eastern municipal border are other noteworthy settlements along with a few homesteads.

Moosersagi is located on the Uerke in the valley of the same name. This brook forms the border to Wiliberg in the canton of Aargau . The area east of the Wigger Plain is heavily forested and very hilly. To the southeast of Wikon-Dorf lies the wooded Birchberg ( 629  m above sea level ) and to the east of the village the Riedwald . To the east of Adelboden are the castle forest and a wooded height called Galgenberg ( 586  m above sea level ). The forest areas of Lienihubel ( 661  m above sea level ), Eichbühl , Mösli and Langrüti connect to the east and north of it. All of these forests form a closed area.

In the far east of the municipality in the Uerketal it is very swampy. The area east of the Wigger plain is therefore almost uninhabited. In the west is the agricultural hamlet of Hintermoos with around 50 inhabitants. The Altachen brook forms the border with the canton of Aargau. 39.5% of the community area is used for agriculture. More than half (51.6%; east of the Wiggertal) are forested and 8.8% is settlement area.

Wikon borders on Reiden in the canton of Lucerne - as well as on Bottenwil , Brittnau , Wiliberg and Zofingen in the canton of Aargau .

population

Population development
year	Residents
1798	529
1850	952
1910	738
1920	743
1970	1,374
1980	1,263
1990	1,387
2000	1,342
2010	1,365
2015	1,474
2018	1'527

The population grew rapidly from 1798 to 1850 (1798–1850: +80.0%). After that, massive, gradual emigration began until 1910 (1850–1910: −22.5%). From 1920 to 1970 the population increased continuously (1920–1970: + 79.4%). After a decline in the 1970s, a final growth followed in the 1980s to the highest population level ever recorded. Beginning around 1990, the population slowly but steadily decreased (1990–2004: −6.3%) until around 2010, thanks to greater construction activity, the population slowly increased again.

languages

The population uses a highly Alemannic dialect as their everyday language. At the last census in 2000, 90.39% said German, 3.28% Albanian and 1.86% Serbo-Croatian as their main language.

Religions - denominations

In the past, all residents were members of the Roman Catholic Church. Today (as of 2014) the religious composition of the population is as follows: 45.50% Roman Catholic, 26.50% Protestant Reformed and 28.00% other denominations or non-denominational ones.

Origin - nationality

At the end of 2014, of the 1,470 inhabitants, 1,247 were Swiss and 223 (= 15.2%) were foreigners. The population consisted of 84.8% Swiss citizens. At the end of 2014, the foreign residents came from Portugal (24.7%), Germany (17.0%), Serbia including Kosovo (15.2%), Italy (14.3%), Turkey (3.6%) and Spain (2.2%). 19.3% came from the rest of Europe and 3.6 % came from outside Europe.

history

As finds such as Stone Age fire devices show, the community was settled very early. However, the name of the place was first documented relatively late. In 1256, Count Hermann von Kyburg sealed apud Wiggen . The castles (the sources vary between four and five castles) were built in the 11th century and belonged to the rule of the Counts of Lenzburg . Later, as mentioned above, the Kyburgs were the lords to whom the Habsburgs succeeded as heirs. Under the latter, Wikon became part of the County of Willisau. The knights of Büttikon were the feudal lords for a long time. In 1415, the Bernese and Lucerne residents conquered the Habsburg Aargau. In Wikon, both sides occupied castles and fought for rule. The municipality was awarded to Lucerne in 1470 by a federal decision . Six years later, the Lucerne residents also bought the lower jurisdiction from Hans Thüring von Büttikon, so that they fully controlled the community. Together with Roggliswil , Wikon formed the Landvogtei Wikon until 1798. During the Peasants' War , the residents held the bailiff prisoner from May 26th to June 10th, 1653. From 1798 to 1803 the place then belonged to the Altishofen district and since then to the then newly founded Amt Willisau .

politics

Municipal council

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

• Michaela Tschuor-Naydowski ( CVP ): Mayor, Head of Department Presidential Affairs, Communication, Media, Location Marketing , Economic Development, Regional Planning, Human Resources & Emergency Organization .
• Ivan Zanin (independent): Head of Construction, Mobility, Environment, Energy & Corporation.
• Rosmarie Brunner ( CVP ): Head of Social Affairs
• Wolfgang Kunzelmann (SVP): Head of Finance, Taxes, Real Estate & Economics.
• Esther Ammann (SP): Head of Education, Culture, Youth, Sport & IT Procurement.

Cantonal elections

In the 2019 Cantonal Council elections for the Canton of Lucerne, the share of the vote in Wikon was: CVP 33.3%, SVP 23.2%, SP 21.0%, FDP 15.8%, GPS 6.8%.

National Council elections

In the 2019 Swiss parliamentary elections, the share of the vote in Wikon was: SVP 31.5%, CVP 22.5%, FDP 11.9%, SP 9.5%, glp 11.4%, Greens 9.5%, BDP 1, 4%.

economy

Despite the small size of the municipality, Wikon is strategically located in economic terms, the proximity of the larger Reiden (whose industrial area seamlessly merges with that of Wikon to the north), Zofingen and the nearby motorway connection is used by several industrial companies. Mention should be made of Hunkeler AG , Juffern AG , Flachglas Schweiz AG and ALHO Container . The four restaurants, Restaurant Schlossberg , Restaurant Bim Buume , Hotel Adelboden and the pizza courier service PizzaRoma are also located in the village .

traffic

Since 1908, Wikon and Brittnau have had a stop on the Lucerne – Olten railway line . Since this is 600 m west of the village, the bus lines operated by Limmat Bus from Zofingen train station via Reiden to St. Urban or Richenthal also ensure good connections to the public transport network. Most of the bus stops in Wikon run every half hour on weekdays until late in the evening with direct connections in Zofingen to the express trains to Bern and Basel and in the direction of Reiden to the interregional trains to Lucerne. Wikon is on the Lucerne (-Sursee) -Zofingen (-Olten-Basel) street, the so-called Baslerstrasse. The closest motorway connection is Reiden on the A2 , 4 km away.

Culture and sights

See also : List of cultural assets in Wikon

The Wikon Adventure Station offers guided tours through the old station building with all kinds of museum pieces on request.

The Spycher is an old wooden building in the Adelboden district, in and around which cultural events such as concerts, vernissages etc. often take place. This is called culture in Spycher .

Wikon Castle and Monastery

The Benedictine Gertrud Leupi returned to Switzerland from the United States in 1891, bought Wikon Castle with the help of her nephew and pastor Josef Leupi and founded the Marienburg Wikon Monastery as an educational and missionary institute , where she became sisters for missions in the United States trained. The monastery was given up in March 2019 and the last Benedictine nuns moved into the converted St. Andreas convent in Sarnen . The monastery complex was sold at the end of 2019. The monastery buildings are to be used differently in the future.

Personalities

• Gertrud Leupi (1825–1904), Benedictine, founder of three monasteries, born and died in Wikon

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Wikon
• Waltraud Hörsch: Wikon (municipality). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Community profile of the cantonal statistical office (PDF; 113 kB)
• Waltraud Hörsch: Wikon (Vogtei). 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 Wikon ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ [1] LUSTAT: Community profile Wikon ( 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. ↑ https://www.lustat.ch/daten/karte?id=32. In: Results of the National Council elections 2019. Accessed on January 23, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Lucerne building contractor buys empty women's convents. In: Luzerner Zeitung , January 8, 2020
8. ↑ Re-zoning of the women's monastery in Wikon is likely. In: Luzerner Zeitung, January 10, 2020