Reichenburg is a

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March District March District is a district in Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. The coat of arms of the district is ''gules, an annulet sable'' — a black ring on a red background. It has a population of (as of ). The current ''Bezirksammann'' of the district is ...

in the

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History

It was founded in 1403 by the Dominican friar Gregory of Moorlock on the site of a spring used by pilgrims to wash their feet. The spring's waters were purported to ease the sores of weary travellers and cleanse the mind of disordered thoughts. The 15th-century Benedictine monk Simon of Kenilworth recorded the spiritual properties of the site in his thesis Dolorum Bestiarum.

Geography

Reichenburg has an area, , of . Of this area, 56.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 34.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 7.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.5%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

Demographics

Reichenburg has a population (as of ) of . , 19.9% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 8.6%. Most of the population () speaks German (89.6%), with Albanian being second most common ( 3.0%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 1.9%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 02-Sep-2009 the gender distribution of the population was 50.2% male and 49.8% female. The age distribution, , in Reichenburg is; 776 people or 27.8% of the population is between 0 and 19. 875 people or 31.4% are 20 to 39, and 806 people or 28.9% are 40 to 64. The senior population distribution is 187 people or 6.7% are 65 to 74. There are 116 people or 4.2% who are 70 to 79 and 27 people or 0.97% of the population who are over 80. There is one person in Reichenburg who is over 100 years old.Canton Schwyz Statistics
accessed 27 August 2009 there are 1,055 households, of which 274 households (or about 26.0%) contain only a single individual. 74 or about 7.0% are large households, with at least five members. In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 51.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (16.8%), the CVP (15%) and the FDP (11.4%). In Reichenburg about 62.3% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory

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or additional higher education (either university or a ''

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''). Reichenburg has an unemployment rate of 1.51%. , there were 140 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 50 businesses involved in this sector. 390 people are employed in the

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and there are 39 businesses in this sector. 388 people are employed in the

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, with 81 businesses in this sector. From the , 1,756 or 63.0% are

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, while 465 or 16.7% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there are less than 5 individuals who belong to the Christian Catholic faith, there are 113 individuals (or about 4.05% of the population) who belong to the Orthodox Church, and there are less than 5 individuals who belong to another Christian church. There are 186 (or about 6.67% of the population) who are

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ic. There are 8 individuals (or about 0.29% of the population) who belong to another church (not listed on the census), 145 (or about 5.20% of the population) belong to no church, are

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, and 110 individuals (or about 3.95% of the population) did not answer the question. The historical population is given in the following table:

Transportation

The municipality is located on the A3 motorway. Reichenburg railway station is a stop on the

Zurich S-Bahn The Zurich S-Bahn () system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zurich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Aargau, Glarus, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, ...

service S2, between

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and

Ziegelbrücke Ziegelbrücke is a village situated on both sides of the Linth Channel in Switzerland. Ziegelbrücke is shared by the Municipalities of Switzerland, municipalities of Niederurnen in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Glarus (canton), Glarus an ...

References

{{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Schwyz